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Friday, April 09, 2004

# Posted 5:42 AM by Patrick Belton  

WASHINGTON GIVES IN TO BEIJING, PULLS CHIEF DIPLOMAT IN TAIWAN: Washington has given in to Beijing's repeated requests and pulled diplomat Therese Shaheen from the American Institute in Taiwan, where she was Washington director. Shaheen's clashes with the White House were intensified when she issued a letter of congratulations to President Chen Shui-bian for his election victory before the White House had issued its own.

That the nation's diplomats must hew to the instructions of the president they represent is beyond question the president's prerogative; that Washington give into Beijing's pressure in the personnel which it sends to Taiwan, however, is both kow-towing and reprehensible beyond measure.
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