Posted on 11/20/2004 8:55:57 PM PST by Lessismore
DAMAGE CONTROL: US President George W. Bush met the Chinese president in Chile yesterday, apparently voicing sustained opposition to Taiwan's independence
AP , SANTIAGO, CHILE
With fresh support from China in hand, US President George W. Bush hopes to minimize public differences with Asian allies over how to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions and come back to the bargaining table.
On the sidelines of a weekend-long economic summit with Pacific Rim leaders, Bush met yesterday in quick succession with all four of the US' partners in now-stalled talks with the communist regime.
China was first up, and Chinese President Hu Jintao (JÀAÀÜ) said after the meeting, "We ... exchanged views on the question of Taiwan. I expressed my high appreciation to Bush's adherence to the `one China' policy and the three communiques, and to his opposition to [Taiwan's] independence."
A senior Chinese government official, appearing in Santiago on Friday, said China will push for North Korea to resume negotiations.
"I believe you can never push too hard for a good purpose," said Kong Quan, chief spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
Meetings with the leaders of Japan, South Korea and Russia were to follow.
Believing that having all five partners on the same page from a high-profile international summit will have an impact on North Korea, Bush's goal is a tough united front reinforcing a demand that North Korea completely give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons and insisting that any talks with Pyong-yang occur only with all the partners present.
With North Korea demanding economic aid and US guarantees of nonaggression as incentives, South Korea and China, in particular, have suggested it may be necessary to be more flexible.
"We've put forward a realistic proposal and we're not interested, none of us are interested, in sort of negotiating among ourselves at this point," a senior White House official said. "There is something concrete to talk about; the North Koreans need to come back to the table to talk about it."
Most Westerners seem to fail utterly to see the degree to which
The Chinese have done so much with so little for so long--it's virtually a national skill; a national asset.
They certainly would be quite willing to sacrifice far more than most Americans for any number of national goals.
One key problem that will have unknown impact is the horrid levels of corruption that are causing increasing disruption and malcontent. But, then, perhaps a war with the USA would be just the ticket to distract from that, too.
They are quite confident that the rest of the world will come to China for goodies to more than replace the buying power of the USA. And, certainly they have made plenty of 'preliminary' political enroads and various liasons with Europe as well as South America.
We went over this before on earlier threads when Powell made the comments.
We should wait to hear Bush's exact words he made public or an offical acknowledgement of what he said privately.
Busk stops with Bush. According to this article Bush went along with the ChiComs all the way.
I agree -- unless Bush keeps acting like Clinton and encouraging the ChiComs to attack as he he seems to have done if this article is correct.
Related story -- Bush said nothing publicly nor officially.
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White House mum on Taiwan in wake of Bush-Hu talks
China president expresses appreciation for U.S. adherence to 'one-China' policy
2004-11-21 / Taiwan News, Staff Reporter / By Tsai Ting-I
U. S. President George Bush refrained yesterday from making any public statements on Taiwan in a press conference that was held following a meeting with China President Hu Jintao (ŒÓ‹ÑŸ·) at an APEC meeting.
Taipei had been anxious about the meeting between the two leaders, particularly in light of a recent statement by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell who said that Taiwan was not a sovereign state and hinted at new guidelines for Taiwan's future "re-unification" with China.
However, while Hu said that the Taiwan question was discussed, a White House press release on the meeting failed to make any mention of the issue.
Hu said that he "highly appreciated President Bush's adherence to the 'one-China' policy and the three communiques, as well the U.S. leader's opposition to Taiwan independence."
Bush's silence on the issue was interpreted as a positive sign by the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"(We think) it is a good thing that President Bush did not make any statements," said MOFA Spokesman Michel Lu yesterday.
Before the meeting, China had stressed that Taiwan was at the top of its agenda.
"In order to make the constructive relationship better, the two sides need to appropriately handle bilateral issues, one of which is Taiwan, the most sensitive issue facing Sino-U.S. relations," Vice Foreign Minister Zhou Wenzhou told journalists ahead of the APEC meeting.
While the United States has closely followed an ambiguous "one-China" policy over the past quarter of a century, it had never explicitly stated that Taiwan is not independent and does not enjoy sovereignty as a nation, previous to Powell's statement last month.
Bush administration officials have already flagged Bush's unequivocal restatement of U.S. support for the "one-China" policy and Washington's opposition to any unilateral change to the status quo.
http://www.etaiwannews.com/Taiwan/Politics/2004/11/21/1101005580.htm
L. Ron Hubbard thinking will get you nowhere my FRiend.
What are you blathering about?
Who is L Ron Hibbard. What are you blathering about?
Your blathering of course, I hope you don't take offense. Do you?
Make your point related to the issue in comprehensible terms. The topic is Taiwan as independent from China or whether we, via our President and his administration's policy's are trying to consign it to come under communist rule.
The sub-issue is whether or not we support free nations over dictatorships and encourage and recognize free democratic states.
Peace in our time!
why don't you google L. Ron Hubbard and find out...
china won't invade Taiwan at this stage unless Taiwan formly declare independence. Until now, I haven't seen
any incense of doing that. the Taiwanese people is more and more inclined to become independent, however, it is still not enough. it still has not come to the threshold.
I thought it was Kisinger that came up with the One China policy that every administration has adhered to since.
We acknowledge that Formosa/Taiwan is part of China, but they acknowledge that they cannot force Formosa/Taiwan to reintegrate with the political structure of People's Republic of China. Bush has restated that the U.S. will defend Taiwan from such a "reintegration" by force, but U.S. policy has been since One China policy that the Taiwanese have to go along with the fiction that they are part of PRC and don't do something stupid like declaring "independence."
It's all a diplomatic shell game that has been going on for decades now. No news here actually.
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