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Article: Taiwan, China Detect Shift in U.S. Priorities.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- October 27, 2001
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By Michael Dorgan, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 27--BEIJING--Both China and Taiwan feel reverberations from the U.S. bombs dropping in Afghanistan. The longtime adversaries detect a shift in U.S. priorities as America fights a war on terrorism.
For Taiwan, which has maintained its independence from China for more than 50 years only because of U.S. support, the change is a cause for concern. For China it is a source of comfort.
What Taiwan fears -- and China welcomes -- is a reversal of the tilt toward Taiwan the United States took in the early months of the Bush administration. In its search for ...