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Article: Three dinosaurs and a dragon. (Foreign Affairs).(Bill Clinton, Malcolm Fraser and Bob Hawke at the Australian Council for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification in China)
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- May 1, 2002
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FROM THURSDAY 21st to Saturday 23rd March this year, a conference was held in Sydney to promote the reunification of Taiwan with China. It was organised by a Chinese-government-sponsored body called the Australian Council for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification in China (ACPPRC). The Chinese character title for the conference, as published in the Chinese-language press in Sydney, was "Global Conference about Ending Independence and Enforcing Chinese Unification". The discrepancy between the two is worth thinking about.
Three distinguished speakers were scheduled to address the conference on Saturday morning: Bill Clinton, Malcolm Fraser and Bob Hawke. The ...