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TAIWAN AND CHINA
Major Omission on Hardball
Date: July 28, 1999
To: William Kristol - The Weekly Standard - editor@weeklystandard.com
I appreciate your comments tonight on 'Hardball'. I agree - American
vital interests are at stake (unlike Kosovo).
However, I believe your challenge to Election 2000 candidates was very
misleading.
Why did you not point out Pat Buchanan's strong conservative leadership on this
issue.
This major omission makes me question your motives and taints your reputation as
a fair, conservative source.
What's wrong with making your point - but still giving credit where credit is
due?
I would like a reply - if it's not too much trouble.
Thank You,
Timothy Miller
Little Rock, Arkansas
Here is just one example of many official statements:
For Immediate Release:
July 21, 1999
BUCHANAN PLEADS TO GOP: STAND BY TAIWAN
DES MOINES, IA -- Today, Republican Presidential candidate Patrick J.
Buchanan released the following statement:
"With the Beijing regime almost daily issuing threats of force and
violence against the people of Taiwan, it is imperative that the
Republican Party in Congress not sign on to the Clinton/Gore policy of
appeasement.
"The special trade privileges that have allowed Beijing to pile up $274
billion in trade surpluses this decade, at our expense, should be
suspended.
"It is that massive trade surplus and the hard currency it has provided
that has enabled Communist China to buy and build weapons to put the
island and people of Taiwan in mortal peril.
"According to the Washington Times (7/21), the Clinton administration is
considering a cut-off in the sale of defensive weapons to Taiwan. If
true, that would be an act of treachery utterly un-American in character."
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