Dear Mr. Prime Minister John Howard,
　　 Mrs. Jenny Shipley,
　　 Mr. Trent Lott,
　　 Mr. Denny Hastert,

Kosovo needs help. East Timor needs help, urgently, but China said "opposes interference". On contrary, Taipei said "opposes interference from China over Taiwan issues."

The two conditions publicly set by mainland China's President Jiang Zemin on Wednesday during his tour of Australia seem to have made it more unlikely for his top negotiator Wang Daohan to follow through on his Taiwan visit, originally scheduled for October. Jiang said that for Wang to proceed with his trip, President Lee Teng-hui must retract his two states statement and, in addition, he should only receive Wang in his capacity as KMT chairman, not as the ROC president.

It will be very difficult, if not impossible, for Lee to back off from his recent reassertion that the ROC on Taiwan is a separate country, as opposed to the PRC on the Chinese mainland. Lee was merely stating a long-existent political reality when he told a German journalist in July that the ROC is a sovereign state and that it should be treated by Beijing as such.

A withdrawal by Lee from that position will be tantamount to denying the ROC's own statehood. In view of this consideration, even if Lee were willing to retract that statement, the 22 million people of Taiwan would not agree with him.

As for Jiang's other condition, it would not have been a problem for Lee to meet with Wang in his role as the ruling party's chairman, just as Jiang did last year when he received Taiwan's top representative Koo Chen-fu in his position as the general-secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. But Jiang's choice to use the international venue to announce that condition has made it a problem for Lee to meet Wang, since it has put him in an embarrassing position.

For if Lee formally positively responds to Jiang's request, it would amount to a denial of his legitimacy as the ROC president in democratic terms, the legitimacy of Lee's presidency is much stronger than Jiang, because he was popularly elected to that office. And Jiang was not.

Jiang's insistence that Lee must withdraw his two countries comments may also have made it more difficult for U.S. President Bill Clinton's long-announced effort to promote Wang's Taiwan visit as an important step toward reopening of high-level dialogue between Beijing and Taipei. Now Clinton may have to either persuade Jiang to drop the condition or press Lee to concede on the issue. He may be unable to do either.

To a communist, weapon means power, the freedom to do as he likes, which also means that, consciously or unconsciously, he says: "I want to have as much weapon as possible myself and others to have as little weapon as possible."

In our view, capitalist focus on money, he says, "money is power", and communist keep his eye on weapon, he says, "weapon is power". Nationalist as communist China, they are earning money and weapons. "To those who states whom we welcome to the ranks of the free. We pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replace by a far more iron tyranny.

We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view, but we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom --- and to remember that, in the past those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside?" President John Fitzgerald Kennedy said.

We though the head of democratic big country as United States can do on duty. "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."