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Article: Taiwan's 'Formula Three' pushing a bit too hard.(Opinion)
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- San Diego Business Journal
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- October 4, 2004
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TAIPEI, Taiwan -- If Vice President Annette Lu is the Margaret Thatcher of the feisty island of Taiwan--unyielding, immensely quotable and never taking any intellectual prisoners--then easygoing Chen Tan Sun is its Harry Truman, courteous though gutsy, and pointedly plain-spoken.
Combine this sparkplug pair with its president, the acutely clever Chen Shui-bian, and you have a Formula Three for driving Beijing somewhere just this side of nuts.
It is hard to dislike Foreign Minister Chen, who says what he thinks and rarely disguises his thoughts in diplomatic gobbledygook and cross-straits fog. The former U.S. citizen, who turned in his U.S. passport last ...