From The Washington Post:
China demanded Thursday that the United States do more to prevent Taiwan from holding a controversial pro-independence referendum, but a senior U.S. official said Washington has already done all it can to get the vote called off.
The exchange, between Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and visiting Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte, dramatized the central role Taiwan plays in relations between China and the United States. In particular, China in recent years has come to count on the Bush administration to rein in the combative and independence-minded Taiwanese president, Chen Shui-bian. [Full Text]
