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Australian Rally of Overseas Chinese Backs One-China Policy

Overseas Chinese representatives from more than 70 countries and regions ended a three-day conference in the Australian city of Sydney on Saturday by denouncing the acts of Taiwan separatists and pledging to work toward Chinese reunification.


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Overseas Chinese representatives from more than 70 countries and regions ended a three-day conference in the Australian city of Sydney on Saturday by denouncing the acts of Taiwan separatists and pledging to work toward Chinese reunification.

In a unanimously agreed declaration, they called on overseas Chinese communities to influence political circles, the media and civic society in their places of residence to lobby for the upholding of the one- China policy.

Overseas Chinese should urge the governments of their places of residence to discourage pro-independence political forces in Taiwan, said the declaration.

The three-day conference was designed to promote peaceful reunification and world peace. It included seminars and workshops on China's efforts toward reunification as well as the outlook for trade between the mainland and Taiwan now that both are in the World Trade Organization.

Former United States President Bill Clinton gave a speech to the conference, in which he stressed that the reunification of China is historically inevitable.

The declaration said that pro-independence forces in Taiwan, with Lee Tung-hui being one of the most prominent figures, started their breakaway scheme in the early 1990s, aided by foreign forces.

"They oppose the one-China policy, stirring ethnic and provincial dissent and blaring out their versions of 'two Chinas' and 'one China, one Taiwan' on the international stage. We strongly denounce their acts," said the declaration.

The conference participants said they hoped the separatists in Taiwan would change course and shun their own private interests by taking part in discussions with the mainland on reunification.

They said this could lead to the establishment of direct postal services and air and water transportation and Taiwan's return to the mainland under the principle of "one country, two systems."

The conference participants said international forces should wash their hands of the Taiwan question as it is an internal affair of China.

In the Republic of Korea, meanwhile, Chinese communities set up a new non-governmental group on Saturday with the aim of promoting Chinese reunification.

Their guiding principle will be to oppose Taiwan independence and promote peaceful reunification.

In his visit to Beijing last week, US President George W. Bush said that the position of his government on the Taiwan question has not changed in recent years. Bush said he supported the one-China policy.





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