K.C. Chen This is Me

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1. 1. LATimes: Lee Visit Stirs Up Taiwan Debate

   www.taiwandc.org/latimes-2005- - [Cached]

   Published on: 10/22/2005   Last Visited: 1/17/2006

   K.C. Chen, president of the Formosan Assn. for Public Affairs, said he wasn't worried about the protests.

2. 2. Press-Telegram - News

   www.presstelegram.com/Stories/ - [Cached]

   Published on: 3/13/2005   Last Visited: 3/14/2005

   President Chen on Saturday denounced the law, and called on citizens to march in protest. He said the Mainland currently has 706 missiles pointed at Taiwan.
   
   Existing political and cultural differences have already put a strain in Chinese-Taiwanese relations here, said K.C. Chen, Southern California president of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs, a nonprofit group that promotes Taiwanese-American friendship.
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   The numbers and possible political fallout are incentives for the Mainland to refrain from violent actions, Chen said.
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   HCR-70 will hit the floor after votes are cast on the anti-secession law, but Chen says it's not a lost cause.
   
   "The exact content of the law is not finalized yet," he said, of the law.
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   Chen said he is realistic about progress. He cites the hard-earned "three links' connecting China and Taiwan direct mail, travel across the Taiwan strait and February's first non-charter flights. Business between the two regions is still conducted indirectly.
   
   "To push so hard for true independence will provoke China and it has," he said.

3. 3. SGVTribune.com - News

   www.sgvtribune.com/Stories/0,1 - [Cached]

   Published on: 3/25/2005   Last Visited: 3/26/2005

   K.C. Chen, president of the Los Angeles chapter of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs, helped organize the Los Angeles protest and also spoke at the event about the Chinese anti-secession law.
   
   "To call it law is to give it too much credit; the law is basically groundless,' Chen said.