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| 2005-01-18 |
| Nothing is too petty for the ChiComs to get in a spitting match over. I'm beginning to wonder if they're secret Muslims... the resemblance in behavior is uncanny, no? China said it had received assurances from the United States that Taiwan has not been invited to send a delegation to President George W. Bush's second-term inauguration this week. The statement contradicts earlier reports from Taiwan, whose media has said Nobel laureate Lee Yuan-tseh would head the island's delegation to the ceremony on Thursday. "China has expressed its concern to the US side," foreign ministry spokesman Kong Quan told a regular briefing. "The US response is they have not invited and do not recognize the so-called special envoy delegation from Taiwan," he said. The Chinese statement was immediately dismissed by Michel Lu, spokesman for Taiwan's foreign ministry. "How could we attend the celebration without an invitation? It's not possible," he told AFP. "We urge Beijing to change its narrow-minded way of thinking and drop its irrational rhetoric." China regards Taiwan as part of its territory awaiting reunification, by force if necessary, despite their split in 1949 at the end of a civil war. Taiwan's China Times Express this month also cited informed sources as saying Lee's delegation would comprise Taiwan's top China policy maker Joseph Wu, deputy defense minister Michael Tsai and several parliamentarians. Of course, I hope Taiwan (China) is, indeed, invited. The Commies can go suck a trailer hitch. |
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