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Article: Taiwan, China Verbal War Continues
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CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
07-14-1999
Taiwan, China Verbal War Continues
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Days after infuriating Beijing by suggesting that it should deal with Taiwan as a nation and not a part of China, Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui today denied that the island's policy had changed at all.
Lee told the United States' top representative in Taiwan that his shift in phrasing aimed to ``clarify and specify'' the delicate Taiwan-China relationship based on ``legal, historical and practical realities,'' according to a statement from his office.
``Our mainland policy has not changed,'' Lee told Daryl Johnson, whose term as de facto U.S. ambassador to Taiwan ...