Dear Mr. Kofi A. Annan,
        Mr. Trent Lott,
        Mr. Denny Hastert,

1949 --- Mainlander migrated to Taiwan because of civil war that was fighting against communist Chinese. After a long time of hegemony under one family's domination, the native Taiwanese President Lee, created democracy, waiting for about 400 years Taiwanese people have its own native Taiwanese President and enjoy the respect of human rights, freedom, and prosperity.

Beijing has used its "one-China" policy to claim that it is a central government, while we are a local government, that communist China has continually arena by quashing our space for international activity. Beijing should face the reality that there are two equals on either side of the Taiwan Strait.

We don't know, why the mainlander's New Party, can not become "New Taiwanese" after Taiwan had created its democracy. The major threat of Taiwanese people is communist China, that Lee's "special state-to-state relationship" only to tell the truth, it is very sadness for New Party's position, act as enemy of Taiwanese people, why not to be a New Taiwanese in which loving, eating and working in island?

China Post, November 10, 1999 ---
The Presidential Office has denied that President Lee Teng-hui made a suggestion to a visiting Japanese academic that Japan, India and Taiwan should gang up on their neighboring superpower, the People's Republic of China (PRC).

Yet the tiny pro-unification New Party is insisting Lee made the remark and say they have the proof.

The party which holds close connections with the Communist government in mainland China, says that Beijing also believes Lee made the remark and considers it to be the most threatening comment to ever come out of Lee's mouth --- even worse than his controversial redefinition of cross-strait relations as a "special state to state relationship" which flared tensions across the Taiwan strait earlier this year.

According to the New Party convener, Lee Ching-hua, a report published Oct. 27 this year in Japan's International Intelligence magazine Sapio quoted a Japanese professor who has visited Lee in August 1998 shortly after India's nuclear tests in May as saying that Lee had remarked to him:

"Why are you imposing economic sanctions on India? The right way is for Japan, India and Taiwan to unite and covertly attack China."

Spokesperson for the Presidential Office Ting Yuan-chao said that the people of the ROC should believe in their president, not foreign media.

According to Ting, who was present at this meeting last year along with Mainland Affair Council (MAC) Chairman Su Chi, there was a misunderstanding and Lee never uttered such a statement.

As the PRC President Jiang Zemin was set to visit Japan in September last year, it was unavoidable that the subject of Asian security would come up, Ting explained.

Ting said that Lee had noted that Beijing's attitude to Tokyo was getting more and more hard line and India's nuclear testing had clearly rattled and frightened the PRC government. Lee therefore saw no need for Japan to impose excessive sanctions on India, Ting said.

This was not enough for the New Party who accused the Presidential Office of down-playing the incident and "spitting in contempt" on Taiwan's people.

We agreed with President Lee's statement about the subject of Asian security would come up.

Taiwan News, Nov. 11, 1999 ---
China is likely to continue its propaganda was against Taiwan but there are been no signs that the mainland intends to take military action against the island during next March's presidential elections, a key military official said yesterday.

Tang Yao-ming, Chief of the General Staff, assured lawmakers that "the island's armed forces are absolutely capable of fighting off a mainland Chinese attack."

In a special report at the Legislative Yuan, Tang said mainland China's recent military drills are part of a country's preparations for war.

"We can't just guess, but have to evaluate instead, what China's next move will be, based on their current actions," Tang said. "Up to now we have not detected any moves showing possible military actions against Taiwan during next March's presidential elections."

There have been media reports that China is conducting military exercises in its southern military zones. Simultaneously, China's verbal attacks on Taiwan are also escalating.

Tang said modern warfare does not solely depend on soldiers. Psychological attacks are playing an increasingly critical role, he said.

A recent official survey on the mainland suggests hostility against Taiwan has intensified drastically.

More than 80 percent of mainland Chinese agree on using military means to resolve the "Taiwan question," up from 17.5 percent prior to September 21 killer earthquake. Around 18 percent of the mainlanders favor military approach sooner or later to get Taiwan back to the motherland.

"The figures are China's strategy of psychological warfare," Tang said.

China launched missile tests in the strait during Taiwan's first direct presidential election in March 1996. But worries about a possible return of a similar crisis are not as tense as expected this time.

China's bellicose military exercises and saber rattlings, a result of President Lee Teng-hui's open call for special state-to-state relations with China in July, which seemed to have died down after the earthquake, have revived recently.

In our view, if Taiwan was given up its defense, only because of reunification by mainland China's military threat, that the value of democracy is a rubbish only.

Taiwan always needs your help.