US calls on Beijing to talk to Chen - TW

The US for the first time has called on China to engage in dialogue with President Chen Shui-bian (???) and his government without the conditions demanded by Beijing, which have stymied efforts to ease cross-strait tensions ever since Chen was elected president in 2000.
The call came from the State Department's top East Asia official at a congressional hearing on the economic and security aspects of China's emergence as an East Asian regional power.

Enunciating the US position on cross-strait talks, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia Christopher Hill, said, "Our view is that dialogue should just be dialogue, and should not be centered on any conditions."

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