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An unprecedented decision by the Bush administration to allow serving military officers to work at the United States' de facto embassy to Taiwan would "poison" ties between Beijing and Washington, China has charged. For the first time since the U.S. ended its diplomatic recognition of Taiwan in favor of communist China almost 27 years ago, a serving military officer will shortly join the staff of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), a quasi-official organization set up by Congress to fulfill the functions of an embassy in Taipei. Taiwanese media quoted AIT spokeswoman Nadine Saik as confirming that a U.S. Army...

Beijing, Mar 4 (Prensa Latina) Chinese President Hu Jintao reasserted here Friday that his country will keep on making efforts to reach the peaceful reunification of China, but without permitting the independence of Taiwan. Hu Jintao, Head of State and Secretary General of the Chinese Communist Party (CPCh), talked about the topic before a group of delegates attending to the annual session of the Chinese People"s Political Consulting Conference (ChPPCC) in representation of Taiwan, which started Thursday. "We will keep on making our greatest efforts, with our greatest sincerity, searching for peaceful reunification, but we will never tolerate the independence...