Hi, Folks,
We are a group of Chinese students who have studied at Cornell University.
We have written the following open letter to Cornell University president
and the trustee board, protesting its activities associated with inviting
Dr. Lee Teng-hui of Taiwan as an honored guest in this year's alumni reunion.
Please note that this is not a Taiwan vs. Mainland issue. Rather, it is
an issue of pro-separation vs. pro-unification. It is our belief, and
evidences support our belief, that Cornell's activities serve to promote
the separation of Taiwan and Mainland. Thus, it is to the interest of
all the people who would like to see a unified China that we voice our
strongest protest to Cornell university so that events like this would
not happen again.
We appeal your support in co-sponsoring this letter and in distributing
this letter in your community.
If you would like to support this letter, please send an e-mail to
XL10@cornell.edu
Ad Hoc Committee
Chinese Cornellian Association
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An Open Letter To
The President of Cornell University and the Board of Trustees
Mr. President Frank Rhodes
and the Members of the Board of Trustees of Cornell University:
As former and current Cornell students and scholars coming from the
People's Republic of China and concerned Chinese living in the U.S.,
we are shocked and deeply disturbed when we learn that Cornell
University has invited Mr. Lee Teng-hui as the speaker of the 1995
Cornell Alumni Reunion. It is well known that Mr. Lee Teng-hui has
long been trying through various political channels to arrange and
secure his visits to the U.S. and other countries in order to advance
his agenda of gaining Taiwan the status of a "nation-state," to seek
support for his "two Chinas" or "one China one Taiwan" strategy, and to
finally separate Taiwan from China. As one of the finest institutions
of higher education in the U.S. and in the world, Cornell University
has a long history of highest learning and deepest respect for
intellectual integrity, yet the current Cornell administration,
while receiving a limited amount of money from Lee Teng-hui, disgraces
the fine reputation of the University by actively facilitating
Mr. Lee Teng-hui's political visit to the U.S. and hence grossly
violating international practice as well as the "one China" position
of the U.S. government as it is announced in the Shanghai Communique
in 1972. The fact that the current Cornell administration directly
participates in the notorious political efforts of splitting China
has caused profound anger and outrage among Chinese Cornellians and all
other concerned Chinese living in the U.S.. The decision of inviting
Mr. Lee Teng-hui as "the President of the Republic of China " to be
the speaker of the 1995 Cornell Alumni Reunion has done brutal violence
to the feelings and interests of Chinese people, we as Chinese Cornellians
and concerned Chinese living in the U.S. cannot but hereby lodge our
strongest protest against such a decision, and we demand that Cornell
Administration discontinue such disgraceful complicity in splitting
China, stop trampling upon Chinese people's deepest collective feelings
with imperialist cultural arrogance, and show basic respect for
international practice.
Ad Hoc Committee
Chinese Cornellian Association
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