Tension report played down

TAIPEI - President Lee Teng hui yesterday played down media reports of spiralling tension with China in his first response to…

TAIPEI - President Lee Teng hui yesterday played down media reports of spiralling tension with China in his first response to last Wednesday's New York Times article saying Beijing has completed plans to attack the island.

"There isn't anything like that at all ... The time the two sides killed each other has long gone. Now it's time for the two sides to undergo private exchanges," he stressed.