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...activists--finally paid off last week when, on World AIDS Day, the Chinese government took a lesson from its sluggish response to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic and launched its first big AIDS public-awareness campaign, complete with posters, TV spots and an unprecedented visit by Premier Wen Jiabao to a Beijing hospital, where he shook hands with AIDS patients...
...Tuesday President George W. Bush, at a press conference to mark Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's first visit to the White House, appeared to side with Beijing by issuing a rebuke to Chen, signaling that Taiwan's President should not move ahead with the referendum for fear it would upset the diplomatic ambiguity that allows Taiwan and China to remain at arm's length. "The comments and actions made by the leader of Taiwan indicate that he may be willing to make decisions unilaterally to change the status quo," a position, Bush said, that the U.S. "opposes...
...Taiwan is now bracing itself for what lies ahead. At best, analysts in Taipei claim, Bush's comments were merely rhetoric to give Wen something substantial to take home to appease the hard-liners in China's military who are baying for a fight with Taiwan. At worst, says Parris Chang, a co-chairman of Taiwan's parliament's foreign relations committee, it's the first step towards a significant U.S. policy switch on Taiwan. "We have to wait and see if the substance changes," says Chang. "Of course, we hope this is rhetoric and nothing else. There...
Meghan C. Howard ’04, the student who interrupted the address, said she snuck the Tibetan flag past security in her pants, because she was confident they wouldn’t search there, and waited for the right moment to make her demonstration. When Wen spoke of his love for “his people,” she said, she moved...
...Wen responded to the act by stating, “I will not be disrupted because I am deeply convinced that the three hundred million American people have friendly feelings towards the Chinese people...