{"id":11028,"date":"2007-02-01T12:22:35","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T19:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/02\/01\/lee-dismisses-report-with-a-play-on-words-flora-wang\/"},"modified":"2007-02-01T12:22:35","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T19:22:35","slug":"lee-dismisses-report-with-a-play-on-words-flora-wang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/02\/lee-dismisses-report-with-a-play-on-words-flora-wang\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee dismisses report with a play on words &#8211; Flora Wang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/_images_Accepting-Flag.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/_images_Accepting-Flag.jpg','popup','width=200,height=150,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/_images_Accepting-Flag-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"133\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\" Images Accepting-Flag\" \/><\/a> From The Taipei Times:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFormer president <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lee_Teng-hui\" target=\"_blank\">Lee Teng-hui (\u00ca\u00f9\u00e9\u00c1\u00f4\u00aa\u00cb\u00ba\u00f9<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lee_Teng-hui\" target=\"_blank\">)<\/a> yesterday said he had never advocated Taiwanese independence because Taiwan is already an independent country.<\/p>\n<p>Lee made the remarks in an interview with cable station TVBS yesterday afternoon. The station broadcast the interview last night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never advocated things like pursuing Taiwan&#8217;s independence in terms of law,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It is wrong for an independent nation to seek independence.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/front\/archives\/2007\/02\/01\/2003347165\">[Full Text]<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Taipei Times: Former president Lee Teng-hui (\u00ca\u00f9\u00e9\u00c1\u00f4\u00aa\u00cb\u00ba\u00f9) yesterday said he had never advocated Taiwanese independence because Taiwan is already an independent country. Lee made the remarks in an interview with cable station TVBS yesterday afternoon. The station broadcast the interview last night. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never advocated things like pursuing Taiwan&#8217;s independence in terms of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[1946,5977],"class_list":["post-11028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taiwan","tag-lee-teng-hui","tag-taiwan-status","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lee dismisses report with a play on words - Flora Wang<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/02\/lee-dismisses-report-with-a-play-on-words-flora-wang\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lee dismisses report with a play on words - Flora Wang\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From The Taipei Times: Former president Lee Teng-hui (\u00ca\u00f9\u00e9\u00c1\u00f4\u00aa\u00cb\u00ba\u00f9) yesterday said he had never advocated Taiwanese independence because Taiwan is already an independent country. 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