Shaven-headed Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage has the imposing physique of a professional wrestler and is not usually pestered by inquisitive foreign reporters. But on May 18, two Chinese-language television crews stood in his way as he emerged from a Senate hearing room after a grilling on the administration's strategy in Iraq.
The U.S. should publicly reaffirm that Taiwan's sovereignty isunsettled. Current U.S.-China relations make it impossible to declare that Taiwan is a state, but nothing justifies the U.S.bureaucracy's assertion that Taiwan is not a state. The Asiandemocracies' decision whether to balance or bandwagon with Chinawill be heavily influenced by how the United States defendsdemocratic Taiwan's international identity.
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