(12 Aug 1996) Eng / Nat

Taiwan's Vice President arrives in the United States Monday on his way to the Dominican Republic.

The stopover has infuriated China who sees it as part of Taiwan's transit diplomacy.

But a leading figure of Taiwan's campaign for greater recognition says America isn't doing enough to support Taiwan.

Taiwanese Vice-President Lien Chan transits New York Monday to Wednesday en route to the Dominican Republic for the inauguration ceremony of President Leonel Fernandez.

China views the stopover as an attempt to raise Taiwan's international profile and has warned Washington the visit could injure U-S/Sino relations.

Annette Lu is a foreign policy advisor to Taiwan's President Lee Teng Hui.

An outspoken supporter of the campaign to raise Taiwan's international status, Lu is critical of the restrictions placed on Taiwan.

SOUNDBITE: (English)
"As you know it is a long way from Taipei to Central America, so to make a stop in any appropriate place is quite natural. In fact I think our people are not happy about the treatment our Vice President will receive from the government, he is only allowed to have a private visit - I think it is really still too humiliating to the Taiwanese people."
SUPER CAPTION: Lu Hsiu-Lien (Annette Lu), National Policy Advisor to President Lee Teng-hui

Lu dismisses China's attempts to impose diplomatic isolation on Taiwan as self defeating.

SOUNDBITE:
"My personal experience, in this couple of years, has told me that the more we work, the more we proceed, the more we can earn respect and support. China is like a spoilt child and it is time the whole world began to educate the Chinese leaders to behave themselves."
SUPER CAPTION: Lu Hsiu-Lien (Annette Lu), National Policy Advisor to President Lee Teng-hui

And she is critical of what she perceives as a lack of support on the part of the United States.

SOUNDBITE:
"The U-S, being the number one state in the world, shouldn't give up their principles so easily. China has been spoilt by the world. It is time Washington D.C. should ask Beijing's leaders to abide by international rules."
SUPER CAPTION: Lu Hsiu-Lien (Annette Lu), National Policy Advisor to President Lee Teng-hui

U-S/Sino relations deteriorated in June 1995, when Lee Teng-hui was granted a visa to attend his college reunion at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

The move outraged China which viewed the move as a major shift in U-S policy.

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