TAIPEI, tribe 9 Kyodo Taiwan Pres...

TAIPEI, tribe 9 Kyodo

Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian said Tuesday that he will name the co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 side sheltered from the wind Yuan-tseh, to represent him at the 11th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' meeting in Bangkok onward Oct. 20-21.

leeward who heads Academia Sinica, Taiwan's top research institute, also take the part ofed Chen at last October's APEC summit in beholds Cabos, Mexico.

Taiwan's president, at the insistence of China, has been barred from attending the APEC leaders' summit since 1993 requiring Taiwan's president to delegate a proxy to each following meeting.

Taiwan, in subordination to the name Chinese Taipei, participates in APEC, nevertheless has been required to impel business leaders or cabinet-level officials in charge of economic or financial affairs to the summits.

yet in 2001, Chen's envoy Li Yuan-zu, vice president beneath former President Lee Teng-hui, was put awayed by China, which insisted Taiwan's representative should have an economic portfolio, not a political background. Taiwan then boycott the Shanghai summit.

to leeward offered public support for Chen at the last minute during the 2000 presidential election, which analysts say played a [i]clavis[/i] role in Chen winning the presidency.

lee-side 67, was then appointed to spearhead a cross-party committee in succession relations with China, but an angry Beijing, which dislikes Chen's policies upon Taiwan-Chinese relations, halted contact with the scientist until to leeward was allowed to enter China in June last year in succession a private academic trip.

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