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Cheng-San Chen, the owner of Louie’s, described the alleged suspect as a five-foot-four black male around 140 pounds and between the ages of 18 and 20, wearing a black jacket, black pants and a do-rag on his head...
...Tuesday President George W. Bush, at a press conference to mark Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's first visit to the White House, appeared to side with Beijing by issuing a rebuke to Chen, signaling that Taiwan's President should not move ahead with the referendum for fear it would upset the diplomatic ambiguity that allows Taiwan and China to remain at arm's length. "The comments and actions made by the leader of Taiwan indicate that he may be willing to make decisions unilaterally to change the status quo," a position, Bush said, that the U.S. "opposes...
...That kind of emphatic language?to say little of Bush downgrading President Chen to Taiwan's "leader"?stopped traffic on the island. Not many in Taiwan fail to recognize that the U.S.?and its supply of military hardware?is all that stands between the island's freewheeling democracy and mainland rule. Until now, few U.S. Presidents have offered more support to Taiwan than Bush. In 2001 Bush said the U.S. would do "whatever it takes" to defend the island against a Chinese attack. In the last two years, a Taiwanese deputy defense minister visited Washington a couple of times?after...
...Bush's prior tacit support, analysts argue, has encouraged Chen to push the envelope on the island's status?and galvanize nationalist sentiment?in the lead-up to the presidential election next year. David Lampton, professor of China studies at Johns Hopkins University, told the Associated Press that Bush felt it was time to make clear to Chen that he "did not have a blank check to be filled out in American blood...
...country ... no matter how it tries to scare or block us, can stop [us] from holding the referendum." Chen Shui-bian, Taiwan's President, rebuffing U.S. President George W. Bush's opposition to a possible plebiscite in Taiwan...