People In Eastern China
Criticize Lee's Separatist Remarks
NANJING, August 5 (Xinhua) -- People in Jiangsu Province,
which has close economic and trade ties with Taiwan, have expressed their indignation over
the recent separatist remarks of Lee Teng- hui.
Yu Meilan, the vice president of the Jiangsu Provincial Federation of Returned
Overseas Chinese, told a forum here that Taiwan has been a part of Chinese territory from
long ago and that Li's redefining of cross-straits relations as "state-to-state"
greatly hurt the feelings of all Chinese.
Zhou Haijiang, the general manager of the Hongdou Industry Co., Ltd., said at
another meeting that Lee's remarks reveal his intention to separate Taiwan from China and
to undermine the foundation of cross-straits relations.
Chu Fuxiang, a scientist, said that Lee's "two states" statement is a
severe challenge to the "one China" policy and runs counter to the fundamental
interest of the Chinese and that the Chinese people will not accept it.
Peng Hui, the vice president of the Jiangsu Provincial Youth Federation, said that
the Chinese expect to develop cross-straits relations and to reunify the motherland and
that anyone who attempts to hinder this is over-estimating his ability and is doomed to
fail.
Economic, cultural, educational, scientific, and technological exchanges between
Jiangsu and Taiwan have been on the rise for the past two decades and Taiwanese investors
have contracts worth more than 11.2 billion U.S. dollars in Jiangsu. |