Taiwan Communiqué no. 87, August 1999

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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• "Nation-to-nation" relations
  • President Lee states the obvious
  • China's Xenophobia and hysteria
  • Who is "provocative" ?
    
    
• Discarding "One China"
  • Ending a fiction
  • Needed: "Out-of-the-box" thinking
  • The press debates the issue
  • American academics add to the confusion
    
    
• Let Taiwan be Taiwan
  • Editorial
  • Chen Shui-bian: "let Taiwan decide its own future"
  • Presbyterian Church: an affirmation and an appeal
    
    

• Taiwan discovers itself
  • Newsweek: "Escaping the past"
  • Wall Street Journal: "Overcoming the China syndrome"
    
    
• Taiwan-U.S.-China relations, a historical perspective by Doris Chang
  
  
• Report from Washington
  • "One China, One Taiwan" resolution introduced in the House
  • House passes Safety and Security amendment
  • Senate hearing on the Taiwan Security Enhancement Act
    
    
• Notes
  • Mrs. Albright doesn't quite get it
  • Taiwan applying to the UN, again
  • New Taiwan, Ilha Formosa website