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作者：Anonymous 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
Taiwanese Leader Condemns Beijing, 'One China' Policy
Chen Dismisses Fears In U.S. of Rising Tension
By John Pomfret
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, October 7, 2003; Page A18
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Oct. 6 -- President Chen Shui-bian issued one of his strongest condemnations of China on Monday and ruled out any talks as long as China imposes conditions on Taiwan.
In an interview in the presidential palace in central Taipei, the 52-year-old lawyer, who in March 2000 became the first opposition candidate to be elected president, accused China of "hostile intent" toward Taiwan. Chen, who faces a tight race next year, declared that Taiwan would "walk our own road, our own Taiwan road."
Chen said he would not bow to U.S. pressure to modify recent moves -- including holding a referendum on rewriting the constitution and adding the name Taiwan to its official Republic of China passports -- which Bush administration officials worry could heighten tensions with Beijing.
"Taiwan is not a province of one country nor it is a state of another," the Taiwanese president said, referring to China and the United States. "Any kind of democratic reform is our own internal affair. I don't think any democratic country can oppose our democratic ideals."
Chen's comments were unusual because Taiwanese leaders are rarely so dismissive of U.S. concerns. Absent from his message were any olive branches or pronouncements of possible cooperation with China that he used in the past.
China has said that it will negotiate a series of outstanding issues with Taiwan, such as the possibility of direct flights between the two places, only if Taiwan accepts the "one China" principle, which means that Taiwan is part of China. In the past, Chen had held out hope that he would one day accept it. At one point last year, he even mentioned the possibility of "future political integration" between China and Taiwan.
On Monday, however, Chen called the "one China" principle "abnormal thinking that should not exist, it should be corrected." He also ruled out accepting a compromise deal reached in 1992 under which China and Taiwan had agreed to disagree about the issue.
"The so-called 1992 consensus is still a 'one China' principle," he said. "It's a way to make Taiwan a region. It belittles Taiwan, it marginalizes Taiwan."
"The people of Taiwan firmly believe that there is one country on each side of the straits," he said, "One China and one Taiwan."
Dressed in a dark blue suit and surrounded by aides, Chen appeared blunt and confident, referring to himself as a "responsible, accountable leader who has a sense of mission and a great vision for his country." Increasingly, analysts and government officials say that mission involves establishing Taiwan as an independent country and ruling out the possibility of uniting with China.
After his election, Chen issued a statement pledging that Taiwan would not declare independence, change its name or conduct a referendum on the question of independence. The referendums he is pushing now would be on rewriting the 1947 constitution, written for a mainland Chinese government and revised over the years, and on other issues such as nuclear power.
The Bush administration has watched with some alarm as the president has launched initiatives that many fear are designed to prompt a sharp reaction from Beijing, which has threatened to attack Taiwan if it declares independence. In the past weeks, Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher and the U.S. envoy to Taiwan, Douglas Paal, have all publicly cautioned Chen. The Taiwanese president will transit through the United States later this month on his way to Panama.
U.S. officials have expressed concern that Chen would use the constitutional reform package as a way, among other things, to change the official name of the country from Republic of China to Taiwan, a move that would enrage Beijing. There is also worry that Chen's plan to push the use of referendums would prepare the way for an island-wide vote on Taiwan's relations with China, something Beijing also opposes. Chen said in the interview that he would do neither.
Chen has suffered a series of snubs at the hands of Beijing, including its successful effort to keep Taiwan out of the World Health Organization following the outbreak in Asia of SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, which many people here blame on Beijing. Chen cited the comment in May by China's U.N. representative in Geneva, Sha Zukang, after Taiwan's bid was turned down again.
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