Xinhua Commentator on Lee Teng-hui's Separatist Remarks ����The Xinhua News Agency released a commentator's article today denouncing Lee Teng-hui for his "naked separatist remarks" in an attempt to destroy cross-Straits relations. ����The article says that Lee intentionally chose this particular moment when Taiwan's political situation is in a state of change but when cross-Straits tensions have shown signs of easing to utter his separatist words, just as he did in 1995 when he went to the United States to advocate "two Chinas" and "one China, one Taiwan". But, unlike then, this time he is doing it more brazenly. ����In an interview with a foreign news organization on July 9, Lee said that cross-Straits relations should be "state-to-state" or at least "special state-to-state relations", so the commentator is asking everyone who would like to see an easing of tensions in the Taiwan Straits to be on alert because of Lee's remarks. Cross-Straits relations are at a critical moment now with Wang Daohan, the president of the Association for Relations Across Taiwan Straits, preparing to visit Taiwan, the article says. ����Lee's recent remarks were straightforward proof that his repeated statements that he will not pursue a policy of "Taiwan independence" and will never give up his pursuit of the country's unification in the future were false. ����There are only a few months left for Lee to stay at his current post so he is too impatient to wait to show his true colors, the article says. ����The commentator says that the "one China" principle laid the foundation for steady development of cross-Straits relations and that it is only with this principle that progress has been made in cross-Straits relations. ����The Taiwanese authorities have been publicly proclaiming their commitment to the "one China" principle and The Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) and Taiwan's Strait Exchange Foundation (SEF) had reached a consensus on this principle, the commentary says. But Lee is now flagrantly violating the fundamental principle, undermining the foundations of exchanges and cooperation between ARATS and SEF, while keeping talks about crystallizing mutual trust in the course of exchanges and building stable relations on the basis of mutual trust. ����This is cheating Taiwan compatriots and the public elsewhere, the article says and questions whether stability, peace, and security, which are much wanted by the Taiwanese, have ever been on Lee's mind when he is publicly poisoning cross-Straits relations and threatening stability across the straits. ����Under the guise of democracy and public opinion, Lee has been vigorously dragging the Taiwanese into the mire of "Taiwan independence" by taking advantage of his political position and his separatist remarks have mainly been used for foreigners and were intended to mislead international public opinion and to get foreign forces to intervene to make the Taiwan issue "an international issue", the article says, but, "the trouble-maker is doomed to fail." ����Solving the Taiwan issue and reunifying the motherland has been the common aspiration of all Chinese, including the Taiwanese compatriots, the article says, and warns Lee and his likes not to play with fire and risk the fortune and prospects of the Taiwanese in betting on a politics. HomeNews 1999-07-13 Page1 Full Story in Chinese