Referendum to Focus on Chinese Missiles
From Times Wire Reports
A referendum March 20 will ask Taiwanese voters to demand that China remove hundreds of missiles aimed at the island, a presidential spokesman said. President Chen Shui-bian had said the referendum would not concern independence.
China has viewed Taiwan as a renegade province since they split in 1949. It had threatened military action if the independence question were put to a vote.
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