Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
1990 Taiwan Special Weapons News
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- SYMMS - INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT LEE TENG-HUI (Senate - June 07, 1990) Opening a New Era for the Chinese People (INAUGURAL ADDRESS, THE EIGHTH PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA, LEE TENG-HUI, MAY 20, 1990)
- SENATE RESOLUTION 296--RELATIVE TO TAIWAN'S MEMBERSHIP IN THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE (Senate - June 07, 1990) On January 1, 1990, Taiwan formally began the process of seeking membership in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT].
- WALLOP - PRESIDENT LEE TENG-HUI'S INAUGURATION (Senate - May 17, 1990) The Republic of China's expansion of democratization began on December 6, 1986, when the 12 million voting-age citizens of the Republic of China for the first time in the history of Nationalist Chinese rule of the island were allowed to cast ballots for an organized political opposition, the Democratic Progressive Party [DPP]. The process continued on July 15, 1987, when the 1949-imposed martial law was lifted.
- DOD RESPONSE REGARDING VERSION OF WOLFOWITZ TESTIMONY DEFENSE DEPARTMENT REPORT, FRIDAY, APRIL 20
It was not our intention to indicate that Taiwan is an unresolved territorial issue. Our policy is unchanged. The United States acknowledges the Chinese position that there is only one China and that Taiwan is part of China. We believe that differences between the two sides should be resolved peacefully by Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Straits.
- TAIWAN ELECTIONS "A MOMENT OF TRIUMPH" (Text: Pell remarks of March 26 before Senate) Senator Claiborne Pell (Democrat of Rhode Island) called the elections in Taiwan a "moment of triumph" for the Tawianese. "We need to support the Taiwanese people in their courageous call for greater freedom and independence...,"
- Junk the One-China Policy (BY TRONG R. CHAI) Christian Science Monitor, Mar. 15, 1990 - The one-China policy is based on a number of assumptions which are no longer valid.
- China-Taiwan Relations Develop Cautiously Chong-Pin Lin, Associate director of the China Studies Program at the American Enterprise Institute, at the National Defense University's Pacific Symposium March 2 -- The June 1989 Tiananmen Square incident in Beijing has not hampered the cautious but, ever- deepening relationship between China and Taiwan.
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