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Article: Taiwan president pushes further toward independence: President Chen Shui-bian on Saturday backed a referendum for a formal break from Beijing.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- August 5, 2002
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Byline: Robert Marquand Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
BEIJING -- With China's ruling elite huddled at a seaside resort to decide its future leaders, Taiwan's feisty President Chen Shui-bian has gone leagues past previous statements to outline a future Taiwan legally separate from the Chinese mainland.
Speaking before a world body of pro-independence Taiwanese on Saturday, President Chen backed a proposed referendum on Taiwan's independence, and used concepts and language rarely heard openly in statements about cross-strait relations.
"Our Taiwan is not someone else's local government, not someone else's province," Mr. ...