TRILATERAL TIES: The State Department's top Asia official said sending Taiwanese marines to Iraq would anger China, but he welcomed Chen's inauguration speech
By Charles Snyder
The US will not "seek or welcome" Taiwanese marines in Iraq because their presence would "significantly" heighten tensions with China, the State Department's top Asia official told Congress on Wednesday.

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Russia echoed serious concerns held by France over a new UN resolution on Iraq, hours before Iraq's foreign minister was to plead his country's case for full sovereignty at the Security Council yesterday.

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US President George W. Bush said yesterday that CIA Director George Tenet has resigned "for personal reasons" and that his deputy will temporarily lead America's premier spy agency until a successor is found.

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China has ordered officials to watch a new documentary on the Tiananmen Square demonstrations to persuade younger cadres that the 1989 army crackdown could not be avoided, government sources said yesterday.

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OPEC yesterday agreed to raise output by 2 million barrels a day (bpd), or 8 percent, in a bid to ease oil prices from US$40 a barrel, Qatari Oil Minister Abdullah al-Attiyah said.

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