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CROSS-STRAIT TIES: The president said Beijing's attitude has not changed and he wouldn't meet with Beijing's leaders if it meant compromising Taiwan's national interests CNA AND AP , TAIPEISaturday, May 14, 2005,Page 1 President Chen Shui-bian (’…G) said yesterday that he will hold talks with China only on condition that he can protect Taiwan's national sovereignty and the interests of the 23 million people of Taiwan. Chen, who made the remarks in an exclusive interview with Formosa TV, also questioned the meaning of a visit to China that might demand that the nation's leadership accept some conditions set by Beijing....

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/160b7bbc-b183-11d9-8c61-00000e2511c8.htmlTaiwan's opposition leader to meet China's HuBy Kathrin Hille in Taipei Published: April 20 2005 11:43 | Last updated: April 20 2005 11:43Lien Chan, chairman of Taiwan's opposition Kuomintang, will meet China's President Hu Jintao next week, a move set to force the island's government to make a quick decision on its cross-Strait policy.After China passed an "anti-secession law" enshrining the threat of force against Taiwan, Taipei suspended cross-Strait trade and investment liberalisation. The government wanted political concessions from Beijing in exchange for reviving dialogue. China has disrupted this strategy by taking advantage of Taiwan's internal divisions. By showering...

Editorial: Politically Incorrect By SAM GRIFFIN JR., Publisher October 24, 2003 On Friday, May-ling Soong, 106, died in New York City. And for whatever reason, the press and people of the United States accorded her passing little notice: Ignorance, oversight, embarrassment or the conceit of political correctness—none of it reflected graciously upon us. Older generations of Americans will recognize May-ling Soong as Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, wife of Nationalist China’s leader Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. In circles of academia and liberal intelligentsia—and thus in the press and in subsequent textbooks—it has been gauche to make complimentary remarks about the generalissimo. Chinese bandit,...