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...relations between China and Taiwan to be conducted on a "state-to-state" basis, challenging the face-saving "One China" policy agreed upon by Beijing and Washington. While the House vote may be in part a bid to pile on election-year political pressure on the administration - and could augur badly for President Clinton's efforts to win legislative support this year for permanently normalized trade relations with China - the Taiwan Security Enhancement Act remains unlikely to win the two-thirds Senate majority needed to immunize it against a likely presidential veto. Still, the response to Lee's comments last...