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...convict a spy, you need to prove that a crime was actually committed, and then prove that it was committed by the accused. That?s why former Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee is unlikely to be charged with espionage, despite achieving national notoriety in the spring following reports that China had stolen U.S. nuclear secrets. If he is charged it will be on the not-exactly-treacherous charge of gross negligence in handling classified information ? all too common among Lee?s colleagues and other government officials ?- although Lee?s lawyers are meeting with Justice Department officials Tuesday to make...
...Lee had been all but convicted in the media, with Energy Secretary Bill Richardson ordering him fired from Los Alamos and the Cox Report alleging grave breaches of U.S. nuclear security. But once the dust had settled, it hadn?t been clearly established that China had actually stolen comprehensive design information, and the only substantive charge against Lee was that he had breached security procedures by downloading sensitive information from a secure computer system onto an unsecured one ?- an action his lawyers argue should be understood as an absent-minded oversight by a man whose job involved downloading large bodies...
...practical matter, it's up to Washington to repair the damage. Lee's abandonment of the protocol that kept the peace was "highly reckless and provocative," says Henry Kissinger, the man who invented the one-China policy as President Richard Nixon's National Security Adviser. Stuck so uncomfortably in the middle, the U.S. cannot afford to play electoral politics over Taiwan or flinch from making Taipei practice restraint. Unless Americans are willing to have their children fight for Taiwan, the U.S. must make it just as clear to Taiwan as to China that it will not permit either...
Taiwan?s loose-cannon president may be the unlikeliest of matchmakers between Washington and Beijing, yet Lee Teng-hui appears to have inadvertently healed the post-Kosovo rift. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright finally reported a thaw in relations with Beijing ? which have been on ice since the Belgrade embassy bombing ? when she met on Sunday with her Chinese counterpart, Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan. Beijing announced that a previously scheduled September summit between Presidents Clinton and Jiang, which had been in jeopardy, would go ahead following a weekend during which the U.S. firmly reiterated its support for the "One China...
...over Taiwan has actually managed to bring China and the U.S. closer together again by giving them something to agree on," says TIME correspondent Barry Hillenbrand. "It gave Washington an opportunity to show Beijing that the U.S. is not out to get them." That?s bad news for President Lee, of course, who had hoped to use the post-Kosovo rift to drive a wedge between Washington and Beijing. But that appears to have been a miscalculation. "The U.S. is committed to defending Taiwan from any attack," says Hillenbrand, "but the last thing it wants...