Sun, Feb 18, 2007 - Page 1 News List

Armitage criticizes State Department

OVER-REACTION?Richard Armitage said the US should recognize that Taiwan has to work out its problems, but he understood the need to seek China's help on other issues

By Charles Snyder  /  STAFF REPORTER IN WASHINGTON

"If [Taiwan] goes in the other direction [toward unification], if the KMT [Chinese Nationalist Party] and others try to move more rapidly toward the PRC, that would be cause for a re-evaluation [of US policy toward Taiwan]," Schriver said.

Overall, the report said, "sustained democracy" is Taiwan's best chance of freedom, and that Washington and Tokyo share an interest in the "peaceful resolution of [cross-strait] issues through dialogue."

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