Word: bian
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...post-election riots in the streets of Taipei subside, the Taiwanese are looking around and noticing one remarkable thing: life goes on. Concerns that China would make good on its promise to attack the island if Democratic Progressive Party candidate Chen Shui-bian won the presidential election Saturday have been allayed - for now. And so Beijing and Taipei have locked in a holding pattern: Chen maintains that his country is sovereign, while Chinese President Jiang Zemin holds (as does the U.S.) that Taiwan is a subset of China. As if to confirm that state of affairs, Chen, speaking...
Beijing's saber-rattling across the Taiwan Strait may well signify a coming conflict with Washington, but not necessarily over Taiwan. Beijing's threats to invade if Taiwan's presidential election on Saturday is won by Chen Shui-bian, who previously advocated a referendum on independence, have seen the Taipei stock exchange shed some 12 percent of its value in less than a week, and drawn a warning on Thursday from Defense Secretary William Cohen to tone down the rhetoric. Washington fears the threats from both sides could develop a momentum of their own, provoking a military showdown that would...