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...visit, however, is entirely symbolic. U.S. policy does not support independence for Tibet. The Bush-Dalai Lama meeting comes a day after Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian visited New York and attended a dinner with a group of U.S. congressmen - a substantial shift in the way U.S. administrations have dealt with the island's leaders. In the more hostile atmosphere that has characterized U.S.-China relations under the Bush administration - particularly after the Hainan spy-plane standoff - Washington is happy to find symbolic gestures through which to stand up to Beijing...
TIME.com: Beijing is furious that Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian is visiting the U.S. and meeting with congressmen in New York. Is the fact that there are more official contacts with Chen a sign of a U.S. policy shift on Taiwan...
Thursday, May. 17, 2001 Chen Shui-bian made history a year ago when he was elected President of Taiwan, ending 55 years of Kuomintang rule. He's now honing his role on the global stage, as a key player in the cross-Strait drama and with a visit later this month to Latin America via the U.S. Chen sat down last week in Taipei for an interview with TIME editors and reporters. Edited excerpts...
...Taiwan's most colorful executive, has gone into business with Jiang Mianheng, the low-profile son of Chinese President Jiang Zemin. They have started a $1.6 billion venture to make integrated circuits in Shanghai?a partnership that highlights the economic trend most worrying to Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian...
...leader of Taiwan. Worse, "China's growing economic leverage could intensify the domestic urge to unify," says Lin Chu-chia, professor of economics at National Chengchi University. In which case, those who have already voted once with their feet will be unlikely to cast a ballot for Chen Shui-bian...