[新聞] 2008選總統？呂秀蓮：愈來愈多人喜歡我

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2008選總統？呂秀蓮：愈來愈多人喜歡我

舊金山記者藍功中/二十八日電

副總統呂秀蓮是否將於2008年尋求民進黨提名為總統候選人，她接受加州聖荷西水星報專
訪時不願回答，但說「愈來愈多人喜歡我，因為我很率直、誠實而且堅持原則。」

聖荷西水星報28日在亞洲新聞版刊登駐北京分社主任強森的專訪，以「副總統為台灣辯護
」為題，刊出呂秀蓮的談話。

水星報說，呂秀蓮是北京的眼中釘，因為她堅定表示台灣和北京是兩個國家，下一代也不
可能統一，她也認為中國在2008年要辦北京奧運，不會派兵攻打台灣。

呂秀蓮在訪問中質疑布希總統為何不在白宮接見陳水扁總統或她本人，她說「老實講，我
們兩人都應受邀訪問華府。」「如果阿拉法特、達賴喇嘛都可以去，我們為什麼不行我們
也是自由鬥士。」

她承認2000年當選後第一年和陳水扁總統相處不睦，她說「大家都知道第一年很糟，因為
無法接受一位女性當副總統。」

水星報指出，呂秀蓮呼籲台灣立法院加速通過一項研議中的法案，懲罰向中國洩漏「敏感
高科技」資訊的人。

【2005/06/29 聯合晚報】


The Mercury News專訪全文:

Posted on Tue, Jun. 28, 2005


Vice President defends Taiwan

By Tim Johnson
Knight Ridder

TAIPEI, Taiwan - The outspoken vice president of Taiwan, Annette Lu, twinkled
impishly and asked whether the communist government in China was lobbing any
new vitriol her way.

``Do they still call me `scum of the nation?' '' Lu asked a visitor.

She's a perpetual thorn in the side of Beijing, despised even more than
independence-minded President Chen Shui-bian for her adamant affirmation that
Taiwan and China are two countries that are unlikely to be united in the next
generation.

In a wide-ranging interview with Knight Ridder, Lu asserted that China
wouldn't dare send its armed forces against the independently ruled island
before the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. She voiced concern at the huge
flows of Taiwanese investment to build factories on the mainland and
questioned why President Bush doesn't receive either Taiwan's president or
herself at the White House.

``Frankly speaking, both of us deserve an invitation to visit Washington,
D.C.,'' the vice president said, noting that their visits to U.S. soil are
sharply restricted.

``If Mr. Arafat, if the Dalai Lama, can go, why can't we? We are freedom
fighters,'' Lu said, referring to the deceased head of the Palestine
Liberation Organization and the exiled religious leader of Tibet. ``Both of
us received many awards in terms of freedom or human rights or peace. We
certainly deserve an invitation.''

Lu received a visitor recently in an ornate meeting room of the presidential
palace in Taipei, a full-length portrait of herself hanging behind her seat.

A onetime political prisoner, Lu acknowledged that she didn't get along well
with Chen for at least the first year after they were elected in 2000. The
two have patched up since, especially since winning a re-election campaign
last year that saw both survive an 11th-hour assassination attempt that left
them with light wounds.

``The first year was awful. Everybody knows that,'' Lu said. ``The idea was
not really to accept a female to become the vice president.''

Lu wasn't one to be a figurehead vice president, however. The holder of two
U.S. master's degrees in law, one from the University of Illinois and the
other from Harvard University, she seized a role in shaping human rights
policy, pushed for greater diplomatic recognition for Taiwan and leaped into
local headlines with verbal jabs at China.

Lu, a former human rights campaigner who was jailed for more than five years
in the early 1980s, said a military buildup on the mainland is unlikely to
lead to an invasion of Taiwan in the next few years.

``China's leaders are not willing to launch a war against Taiwan before 2008.
They are withholding themselves for the Olympic Games,'' she said.

In March, China's rubber-stamp parliament passed an ``anti-secession'' law
enshrining Beijing's right to use military force against Taiwan if it
discerns any sign that the island is moving toward declaring its independence.

For its part, the Bush administration, worried about an outbreak of violence
in the tense Taiwan Strait, has exhorted China and Taiwan to maintain the
fragile status quo. Washington switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to
China in 1979, but has pledged to provide the island with defensive weapons.

Lu said China had not ``exercised one second of jurisdiction over Taiwan''
since the modern communist nation, known as the People's Republic of China,
was founded in 1949.

``In the foreseeable future, we see no opportunity and no justification to
let Taiwan become part of the PRC,'' she said.

Lu voiced pride in the strength of Taiwan's economy, the seventh-largest in
the world, saying the island of 23 million people ``is one of the major
powerhouses of the new economy. We're proud of that and we are confident.''

Over the past decade, Taiwanese entrepreneurs eager to take advantage of
rock-bottom labor costs on the mainland have built thousands of factories
near the Yangtze and Pearl River deltas. On an average day, about 1 million
Taiwanese are on the mainland, Lu said, overseeing some $200 billion in
investments. At least a half-million Taiwanese already have homes on the
mainland.

Lu urged Taiwan's legislature to speed approval of a proposed law to punish
those who leak ``sensitive high-tech'' information to China and voiced
apprehension at the political impact of having so many nationals on the other
side of the strait.

``They try to seduce our entrepreneurs, try to steal our achievement. In a
way, they have been successful because so many Taiwanese entrepreneurs are
having their investment in China to help them upgrade their industry so
rapidly.''

``It's troublesome,'' she said.

In Taipei political circles, word is spreading that Lu will seek the ruling
Democratic Progressive Party's presidential nomination in the 2008 election.
She declined to address the issue, but asserted that her forthright manner
has endeared her to voters.

``More and more, people like me because I'm always candid, honest and
persistent in my principles,'' she said.

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2005 MercuryNews.com and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved.
http://www.mercurynews.com

聖荷西水星報大幅刊登呂秀蓮專訪
中央社 2005-06-29 14:12

舊金山最具影響力的英文大報聖荷西水星報二十八日（當地時間）以"副總統為台灣辯護"
為題，配合大幅照片和醒目的篇幅，在亞洲新聞版刊登呂秀蓮專訪，文章並形容呂秀蓮是
位"有話直說"的女性。圖為呂副總統坐在總統府的全身畫像前接受專訪。（請配合本社社
稿CAP192號，敬請採用。）中央社記者江珺舊金山傳真


有圖有真相
http://news.yam.com/view/mkphotopage.php/20050629460917

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※ 編輯: v180            來自: 218.162.84.174       (06/29 16:08)
推 burdette:我也很希望2008是呂秀蓮代表民進黨參選XD
推 oneders:呂秀蓮身上看的到李登輝的味道 我支持她!!
推 brella:在下以前在貴板就直言過呂會當選。可惜文章被刪
推 don323:民進黨推謝蘇任何一位我都支持，但我絕不投呂
推 yiyichi:我也覺得呂不錯  但又覺得她有時愛說教
推 scottayu:呂秀蓮講話常常點出許多人不願面對的事實，不過
→ scottayu:總是被統配媒體跟一些討厭他的人扭曲＋擴大．
推 zamaki:絕不投呂+1
推 eslite12:絕不投呂
推 AAQQUUAA:絕不投呂+1
推 lux:喜歡她不等於會投票給她，我更喜歡林志玲。
推 freedomtw:呂不錯阿 我欣賞誠實的人
推 vagueterror:只要民進黨推的，蘇謝呂...我都會投
推 wuoldcat:呂秀蓮搭配林志玲好了....
→ inung:樓上的說法真是美夢與惡夢的組合阿！
推 shawncarter:.........................我害怕了
推 brella:哈哈哈，再說一次，民進黨非呂則敗。請等著看！
※ 編輯: v180            來自: 220.141.158.166      (06/30 00:38)
→ dotZu:呂林配蠻妙的 XD
推 thurston:我可以跟brella賭
推 mwenhua:支持呂!
推 chevylove:民進黨應該不會派呂...
推 kyo31:褻i黨推誰  還是要看初選而定 我不看好呂
推 JEON:呂根本不會出來爭吧  想太多
推 Lumania:呂與馬我會投呂，不過馬該不會被王給剷除了吧！