DATE=7/22/99
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-252025
TITLE=CHINA / TAIWAN (L-O)
BYLINE=ROGER WILKSION DATELINE=BEIJING
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: CHINA HAS AGAIN DENOUNCED TAIWAN'S PRESIDENT AS A
SEPARATIST AFTER HIS CONTROVERSIAL DECISION TO ABANDON THE ONE
CHINA POLICY EARLIER THIS MONTH. V-O-A CORRESPONDENT ROGER
WILKISON REPORTS BEIJING SAYS IT CAN NOT ACCEPT TAIWAN'S
REDEFINITION OF ITS TIES TO CHINA AS SPECIAL STATE-TO-STATE
RELATIONS.
TEXT: ACCORDING TO AN EDITORIAL BY CHINA'S OFFICIAL XINHUA NEWS
AGENCY, TAIWANESE LEADER LEE TENG-HUI IS MIRED IN HIS TWO-STATE
THEORY AND IS DESTINED TO BE NAILED TO HISTORY'S PILLAR OF SHAME.
A TAIWANESE SPOKESMAN SAID THE TWO GOVERNMENTS CAN ONLY NEGOTIATE
SUCH POLITICAL MATTERS -- AS REUNIFICATION -- AS EQUALS.
CHINA HAS ENGAGED IN FURIOUS CRITICISM OF MR. LEE EVER SINCE HE
PUBLICLY ABANDONED THE CONCEPT THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE CHINA AND
THAT BEIJING AND TAIPEI ARE TWO POLITICAL ENTITIES UNDER ONE
INDIVISIBLE NATION.
FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESWOMAN ZHANG QIYUE -- SPEAKING THROUGH AN
INTERPRETER -- SAYS TAIWAN'S NEW DEFINITION OF ITS TIES TO THE
MAINLAND IS A DANGEROUS STEP AIMED AT SEPARATING THE ISLAND FROM
CHINA.
/// INTERPRETER ACTUALITY ///
NO MATTER WHAT MODIFICATIONS MADE OR EXPLANATIONS MADE
BY THE TAIWAN AUTHORITIES, ITS ESSENCE (IS) TO
CHARACTERIZE RELATIONS AS STATE-TO-STATE, AND THIS IS A
SERIOUS CHALLENGE OR THOROUGH NEGATION OF THE ONE-CHINA
POLICY. AND THIS IS A DELIBERATE SPLITTING OF THE
COUNTRY.
/// END ACTUALITY ///
DESPITE 50 YEARS OF SEPARATION, CHINA REGARDS TAIWAN AS A WAYWARD
PROVINCE TO BE BROUGHT BACK INTO THE FOLD BY FORCE, IF NECESSARY.
PRESIDENT CLINTON HAS CALLED ON CHINA AND TAIWAN TO RESOLVE THEIR
DIFFERENCES PEACEFULLY AND HAS SENT EMISSARIES TO BOTH BEIJING
AND TAIPEI TO URGE THE TWO SIDES TO DEFUSE TENSIONS. BUT MS.
ZHANG SAYS THE U-S DELEGATION THAT WILL HOLD TALKS FRIDAY IN
BEIJING WILL BE A GUEST OF THE U-S EMBASSY -- MEANING THAT CHINA
HAS NOT SOUGHT U-S HELP IN CALMING ITS LATEST DISPUTE WITH
TAIWAN.
/// INTERPRETER ACTUALITY ///
THEY WILL BE THE GUESTS OF THE U-S MISSION. OF COURSE,
THEY WILL EXCHANGE VIEWS WITH THE CHINESE SIDE ON
BILATERAL RELATIONS.
/// END ACTUALITY ///
BEIJING DOES NOT REGARD TAIWAN AS A FOREIGN POLICY ISSUE BUT A
DOMESTIC ONE AND HAS FREQUENTLY CHARGED THAT FOREIGN POWERS HAVE
MEDDLED IN CHINA'S INTERNAL AFFAIRS BY DEALING WITH TAIWAN. THE
UNITED STATES HAS WARNED THAT ANYTHING OTHER THAN A PEACEFUL
SOLUTION TO THE LATEST TAIWAN CRISIS WOULD CAUSE GRAVE CONCERN IN
WASHINGTON. (SIGNED)
NEB/RW/JO/KL
22-Jul-99 8:19 AM EDT (1219 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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