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...games in a 6,600-square-mile area which stretches to the mid-point of the Taiwan Strait - an unofficial border between the two sides. Taiwanese officials have heightened military alert in response to China's maneuver. China is trying to intimidate Taiwanese from voting for President Lee Teng-hui in elections later this month. China regards Taiwan as a renegade province and Beijing is convinced Lee is seeking to make the island independent. There were peace overtures between the two sides last year, but Lee's visit to the United States renewed fears in Beijing that Taiwan was pushing...
...first of a series of tests announced by the Chinese government on Tuesday, and are scheduled to continue until March 15th. Beijing called the launch simply routine, but the tests closely preceed Taiwan's election on March 23, which makes indimidating incumbent Taiwanese president and likely winner Lee Teng-hui a likely goal. "Its obvious that the Communists in Beijing are trying to scare the Taiwanese voters and candidates." says TIME's Bruce Nelan. "Beijing wants Lee Teng-hui to know that Taiwan should not get any big ideas about declaring independence. Beijing is not going to permit it."Clinton...
...CANDIDATES] Lee Teng-hui, President Lin Yang-kang, Conciliatory to China Peng Ming-min, Advocate of outright independence...
CHINA'S COMMUNIST LEADERS ARE having a bad dream. In it they see Lee Teng-hui, Taiwan's assertive chief executive, being re-elected next month in the first direct presidential balloting in the history of China. They see Lee, flashing his broad grin, standing in the well of the U.S. House of Representatives, addressing a joint meeting of Congress. And they see him moving on to other world capitals to take a bow as the head of a distinct, democratic and economically powerful state on Chinese soil...
...view it is tantamount to giving official recognition to Taiwan, which Beijing considers a mere renegade province. Indeed, China protested Washington's move, but analysts here note that Beijing's reaction was in fact quite mild compared to its vehement outrage over the visit of Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui to his American alma mater last June. Beijing's reprisal then included the expulsion last August of two American air force officers who had been monitoring Chinese military operations in southern Fujian province...