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United States Policy in East Asia and The Pacific Challenges And Priorities, 2001
June 12, 2001
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs James A. Kelly talked about the relationship and policy toward China, Taiwan and other Asian countries.
US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Hearing on Taiwan's Accession to the World Trade Organization, Sept. 6, 2000
September 6, 2000
This hearing was conducted by the U.S. Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations. The committee was chaired by Jesse Helms (R-North Carolina). The ranking Democrat on the committee was Joseph Biden (D-Delaware). Speakers included John Bolton, former Assistant Secretary of State, and Senator John Kyl (R-Arizona). This meeting occurred as the U.S. and other nations were considering China's accession to the WTO.
U.S. Sec. of Transportation Rodney Slater, Remarks in Taipei, June 14, 2000
June 14, 2000
Clinton administration Transportation Secretary Slater was the last cabinet level official to visit Taiwan until 2014. At the time of the visit, the U.S. was Taiwan's largest trading partner, absorbing 25.4 percent of Taiwan's exports and supplying 18 percent of its imports. In 1999, Taiwan was the seventh-largest trading partner of the U.S. and America's eighth-largest export market.
U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, Remarks in Taipei, Nov. 10, 1998
November 10, 1998
Remarks By U.S.
Congressional Research Service, Taiwan: The 'Three No's' - Congressional-Administration Differences and U.S. Policy Issues, Oct. 1, 1998
October 1, 1998
This report by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service was written by Robert Sutter. The full report is available in pdf format at the link below. It was written following President Bill Clinton's trip earlier in the year to China.
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1998 for military activities
November 18, 1997
An Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1998 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes
Public Law 105-85
Enacted 18 November 1997
For a Sound Sino-US Relationship, 1997
October 31, 1997
Before the state visit by Chinese President Jiang Zemin to the US in late October, 1997. Li Daoyu, Chinese ambassador to the US, gave an exclusive interview on Sino-US relations to the correspondent of CHINA INFORMATION magazine. Excerpts of the interview follow:
Pres. Lee Teng-hui, Cornell University Commencement Address, June 9, 1995
June 9, 1995
Taiwan-born Lee Teng-hui 李登輝 (1923-2020) was Vice President of the Republic of China 1984-1988. A member of the ruling Kuomintang, Lee assumed the presidency on the death of Chiang Ching-kuo. In 1990, he was elected president by the ROC legislature. In 1996, Lee was elected in Taiwan's first-ever direct presidential election. He was succeeded in office by Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic Progressive Party. Lee studied at Iowa State University, earning a masters degree in agricultural economics. He later returned to the U.S. and earned his doctorate in agricultural economics at Cornell University. Members of Congress led by Senator Frank Mukowski of Alaska and Representative Tom Lantos of California pushed the Clinton administration to authorize a private, unofficial visit by Lee to the U.S.
H.Con.Res.53: Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding a private visit by President Lee Teng-hui of the Republic of China on Taiwan to the United States, 1995
May 9, 1995
In the beginning of May 1995, Congress passed two Concurrent resolutions with the largest possible majority -- 97 to 1 in the Senate and 396 to 0 in the House.
Bush Announces Sale of F-16 Aircraft to Taiwan, 1992
September 2, 1992
Portion of President Bush's September 2 speech at the General Dynamics factory in Fort Worth, Texas.
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