"They are involved in other areas [such as Iraq and Afghanistan] and they hope this area will calm down and never have anything happen. So they don't have the will or capacity to deal with Taiwan Strait issues," he said.
One of the top officials Wu met was Clifford Hart, the head of the State Department's Taiwan coordination office.
Expressing dissatisfaction with the State Department's reaction to Chen's speech, Wu said Chen was considering only the fate of the unification council.
"I don't think that [Chen] should discuss with the United States everything he is just thinking about," Wu said.
In addition, the council has been "totally inactive" for the past six years, was not a "legal" entity and has virtually no budget, he said.
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