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Article: Shifts, vagueness mark U.S. policy on Taiwan: Taipei support weakens from FDR to Clinton.(World)(Briefing/Pacific Rim)(News Analysis)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 23, 1999
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U.S. policy on the contentious question of Taiwan, which the Clinton administration is once again trying to keep from exploding, has been marked by shifts and ambiguity ever since President Franklin D. Roosevelt was handling it more than a half-century ago.
The current friction erupted when Beijing vigorously protested remarks by Taiwan's President Lee Teng-hui that dealings between his Kuomintang government and that of the Chinese Communists should be considered state-to-state negotiations on an equal footing, with each side respecting the sovereignty of the other.
According to a translated transcript of an interview Mr. Lee gave to Deutsche Welle ...