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Taiwan's chief negotiator with China Koo Chen-fu dies

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Business tycoon Koo Chen-fu (file photo), Taiwan's top negotiator with China, died of cancer in Taipei on Jan. 3 at the age of 87, his doctor said. Koo had served since 1990 as chairman of the quasi-official Straits Exchange Foundation that spearheaded the delicate task of direct and informal talks with China.

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Taiwan envoy meets Qian

Taiwan's top China emissary Koo Chen-fu (L) meets China's Vice Premier Qian Qichen at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Oct. 18. He told Qian that ''One China'' means the ''Republic of China'' and ''it is a fact Taiwan had been separately governed for the past 50 years.'' Koo said the biggest achievement of his six-day visit to China was to restart communication between the two sides, which had been suspended since 1995 after Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui's visit to the United States.

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Top China, Taiwan negotiators meet in Shanghai

Koo Chen-fu (L), chairman of Taiwan's semiofficial Strait Exchange Foundation, meets Wang Daohan, chairman of China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS), in Shanghai on Oct. 14. It was the first meeting between top negotiators from China and Taiwan in five and a half years, aimed at improving cross-strait relations which soured after Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui's visit to the United States in 1995.

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Taiwan's chief negotiator with China Koo Chen-fu dies

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Business tycoon Koo Chen-fu (file photo), Taiwan's top negotiator with China, died of cancer in Taipei on Jan. 3 at the age of 87, his doctor said. Koo had served since 1990 as chairman of the quasi-official Straits Exchange Foundation that spearheaded the delicate task of direct and informal talks with China. (Kyodo)

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Taiwan's Chen invites China envoy to inauguration

TAIPEI, March 22 Kyodo - Taiwan President-elect Chen Shui-bian (C) poses for pictures March 22 prior to his talks with Koo Chen-fu, head of Taiwan's quasiofficial Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), which handles unofficial contacts with China. Chen said afterward he hopes China's top Taiwan negotiator Wang Daohan will attend his inauguration May 20.

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Taiwan envoy meets Qian

Taiwan's top China emissary Koo Chen-fu (L) meets China's Vice Premier Qian Qichen at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Oct. 18. He told Qian that ''One China'' means the ''Republic of China'' and ''it is a fact Taiwan had been separately governed for the past 50 years.'' Koo said the biggest achievement of his six-day visit to China was to restart communication between the two sides, which had been suspended since 1995 after Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui's visit to the United States. ==Kyodo

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Top China, Taiwan negotiators meet in Shanghai

Koo Chen-fu (L), chairman of Taiwan's semiofficial Strait Exchange Foundation, meets Wang Daohan, chairman of China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS), in Shanghai on Oct. 14. It was the first meeting between top negotiators from China and Taiwan in five and a half years, aimed at improving cross-strait relations which soured after Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui's visit to the United States in 1995.