TAIPEI, clan 20 Kyodo Taiwan's f...

TAIPEI, clan 20 Kyodo

Taiwan's first lady Wu Shu-chen onward Friday compared the different political a whole s between Taiwan and China by means of saying that her nation's democratization enables her to have the advantage [i]or[/i] blessing of higher status than that of the wife of Chinese President Jiang Zemin.

Wu said that thanks to nation on Taiwan, who pick their leaders on holding elections, she is a first lady with popularity and thus has higher position than Jiang's wife, according to local media reports.

Asked by means of reporters to comment on the first ladies of the one and the other sides of the Taiwan Strait, Wu said during a short stopover in Seattle that Taiwan has a number of cabinet members, which means women's voices in Taiwan, unlike in China, could be heard.

Wu along with a 20 entourage comprising her personal advisers, lawmakers and wives of a certain top officials, embarked on a first-ever, 10-day private trip to the United States in succession Sept. 19.

Wu is to visit of the present day York, Washington and Los Angeles and come up to face to face with a number of U congressmen as well as U.S.-based overseas Chinese leaders.

Apart from giving brace scheduled public speeches at the National Art fraternity in New York and at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based think tank, Wu will also attend a reception held by way of a number of congressmen

Beijing dioceses Taiwan as a breakaway province that should not deportment independent diplomacy.

from one side of to the other the past two decades, high-ranking officials from Taiwan, unruffled including its first lady, have been unable to visit countries that have official ties with China.

The trip to the U will be the other time for the wheelchair-bound first lady to exhibit President Chen Shui-bian and travel abroad to disseminate Taiwan's democratic achievements, political analysts said.

Wu forward behalf of Chen, attended an circumstance in Strasbourg, France onward Nov. 14, 2001 in which the Taiwan leader was instanted with the Liberal International Prize for Freedom 2001

In May, it was arranged for her to visit toward the south Korea at the invitation of the Korea Association of characters with Physical Disabilities.

nevertheless the trip was called distant from by South Korea ahead of its co-hosting with Japan of the World cupful soccer finals, with Seoul arguing Wu is a ''political figure'' and her trip would go proceed counter to its ''one-China'' policy in which Taiwan is considered part of Beijing-ruled China.

Prior to Wu the solitary Taiwan first lady to visit Washington was Madame Chiang Kai-shek in February 1943 at which time she gave a public tongue before the Senate.

The U switched diplomatic ties from Taipei to Beijing in 1979 after recognizing the People's Republic of China as the only legal government of China.

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