Dear Mr. President Clinton,

The PRC leaders may still not find it very convincing.

Tibet on their hand, they have nothing to lose and a lot of gain by sitting down for a chat with Dalai Lama, with no record of violence. It would, no doubt, also cause strong distrust for the Nobel Laureate among the Taiwanese people, who had welcomed him to the island with open arms.

Jiang Zemin endorsed opening the "door to dialogue and negotiations" ? But; on the other hand, the Dalai Lama, encourage Chinese leadership to open formal talks with him, has long renounced his support for the Tibetan independence, and has agreed to accept the so-called "one country systems" arrangement under Beijing.

Only 100 thousand of Tibetans live outside Tibet, over the past few years, the Dalai Lama has intensified his efforts to campaign for human rights and freedom in the west, which has met with great use success, thanks to his role as a spiritual leader beholding strong humanitarian values.

We worry about the near meeting. If it fails to elicit a positive response from China, may trigger string opposition from extremist Tibetans.

Give you a key, but change the lock. --- This skepticism is also the reason why the Dalai Lama refused to make a clear response to Jiang's demand to recognize both Tibet and Taiwan as parts of China. We don't know, why must the President Jiang let Dalai Lama get into a mess that relate to Taiwan ?

We are happy to find that

A. Richardson's visit appeared timed to show maximum support for Taiwan's democracy, as campaign activity convulses the island ahead of parliamentary and mayoral elections.

B. The senator Murkowski, who came to Taiwan to attend the 22nd joint session of the ROC-USA and US-ROC(Taiwan) business councils, made the remarks at a press conference prior to his departure for the United States.

C. Exiled Chinese democracy champion Wei Jingsheng will visit Taiwan to seek support from the rival of China's communist government. Wei was imprisoned on sedition charges for much of the 1980s and 1990s after publicly demanding that the communist party give up its monopoly on power and embrace a multi-party democracy. Regarded by many as the father of China's, modern democracy movement, Wei was jailed for 15 years for sedition in 1979.

D. Without impacting on the one China policy, New Zealand expressed that the country intends to extend privileges to officials from the Taiwan economic and culture office similar to the rights given to diplomats.

Very thanks your support under spirit of democracy and human rights.