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...there are various ways to define independence. Taiwan and its governing Nationalist Party say they accept the principle of one China, but they also argue that China contains two governments and theirs has as much legitimacy as the one in Beijing. "No party governs all of China," says Chang King-yuh, chairman of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council. "China since 1949 has been divided into two political entities. The Republic of China was the first. We have never lost our sovereignty...
...democratic and prosperous, Taiwan has no intention of ever going back to being one province in a China ruled from Beijing. Taipei is not impressed with Jiang's offer of a special status like that of Hong Kong. "It will never happen," says John Chang, secretary-general of the Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang. "We are not Hong Kong, a British colony that could not choose its future. This is a Chinese government...
...Milosevic's offer of talks, demanding Serb withdrawal as a precondition. But even that, says Calabresi, may not be enough: "Troop withdrawal wouldn't mean much unless Milosevic was prepared to make significant concessions on the political status of Kosovo" -- a notion that sticks in the craw of the nationalist Milosevic, who sent his people to war for a Greater Serbia. So if they're going to avoid another Bosnia debacle, NATO's commanders will need to keep their powder...
...didn't the CIA see India's nuclear tests coming? Because they didn't have the right mindset. The head of an inquest into the intelligence failure blasted agents Tuesday for believing the country's Hindu Nationalist BJP party "would behave as we behave" -- and that they wouldn't live up to their campaign promises, specifically the one about adding nukes to the country's arsenal. As retired admiral David Jeremiah looks set to report to Congress, the spooks thought the Indians would balk at the cost, like a U.S. politician. That's why they didn't spend enough money...
...campaign came to a sudden and tragicend on June 6, 1968, when Kennedy was giving avictory speech after winning the Californiaprimary. While speaking, he was shot and killed byJordanian nationalist Sirhan, a death perceived bymany as sad more for what had been undone, thanfor what had been cut short...