UN's secretary-general, Kofi Annan, took pains to call the Taiwan Province of China.
The most difficult issue is how to circumvent China's insistence that Taiwan accept the principle that there is only one China, of which Taiwan is a province.
After all, China, which considers Taiwan to be a mere province, is unlikely to want to bring trade disputes with Taiwan to international arbitration.
For example, China still considers Taiwan a mere renegade province.
Ah Chen comes from Fujian, the Chinese province that faces Taiwan.
They seem to like Chen's declaration that Taipei may support Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games. (Lee's government had opposed China's bid for this year's Games.) And on July 3, Xiamen Mayor Zhu Yayan invited his Kaohsiung counterpart, Frank Hsieh Chang-ting, to visit his city on the coast of Fujian province, opposite Taiwan.
Currently there are thousands of missiles based in the province whose only target is Taiwan.
Defendants will be those linked to a multi-million-dollar smuggling ring in the coastal province of Fujian, opposite Taiwan.
Taiwan, which China considers a breakaway province, has urged both sides to deal with the matter "peacefully and with wisdom".
China summoned U.S. Ambassador Joseph Prueher to the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday to protest the arms sale, but it had no direct comment on Bush's apparent pledge to defend Taiwan, which Beijing considers a renegade province.
China's arms build-up in recent years has been aimed chiefly at intimidating Taiwan, which it claims is a renegade province that it will eventually recover, by force if need be.
Furthermore, the crisis over Hong Kong's anti-subversion bill is undermining China's attempts to convince Taiwan (which it regards as a breakaway province) that it would retain its freedoms if it rejoined the motherland.
China's Guangdong Province, teeming with affluent businessmen from Taiwan and Hong Kong, has seen a spike in kidnappings.
Military experts see Beidou as part of China's efforts over the past 15 years to develop capabilities designed to deny or hinder U.S. naval access to waters around its shores in case Washington tries to intervene in a conflict over Taiwan, for example, which Beijing sees as a rebel province.
However, his deputy, Tang Shubei, now suggests that accepting the one-China principle is compatible with Taiwan's insistence on negotiating on the basis of equality, rather than as a mere province of China (something the island will never accept).
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