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...rarely does one become an international incident. From the moment last year that Cornell University asked a distinguished graduate to address an alumni gathering, policymakers for the U.S. and China knew they had a first-class hot potato on their hands. The invitee was Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui, whose government is unrecognized by most of the world thanks to China's strenuous efforts to keep it isolated. Could Lee visit a onetime ally that cut off relations 16 years ago? The issue seemed strictly academic as long as Washington upheld its policy of barring top-level Taiwan officials from...
PRESIDENT LEE TENG-HUI China fumes as Taiwan's head of state is granted a U.S. visa...
DIED. TERESA TENG, 43, Taiwanese pop singer; after suffering an asthma attack in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Though Beijing banned her Mandarin love songs as "spiritual pollution" in the 1980s, fans snatched up recordings smuggled in through Hong Kong; it was said that "Little Teng" was more popular than "Old Deng" Xiaoping...
...Clinton Administration today officially acknowledged that it will grant the president of Taiwan a visa allowing the Cornell University alumnus to appear at his alma mater. President Lee Teng-hui, who has been invited to address an alumni reunion at Cornell's Ithaca, N.Y. campus, in June, would be the first leader of Taiwan to visit the U.S. since 1979, when Washington recognized Beijing as the sole government of China. (China regards Taiwan, the seat of the Nationalist Chinese who fled the communist takeover of the Chinese mainland in 1949, as a renegade province.) The State Department has been loath...
...taken four decades, but finally the Nationalists in Taiwan have admitted that they lost the civil war in China. Announcing the lifting of wartime provisions in Taiwan last week, President Lee Teng-hui conceded, "From now on, we must accept the reality that the communists control the mainland." He even called the Beijing regime a "political entity," bold words for a leadership that once referred to Deng Xiaoping & Co. as "rebel usurpers...