Wow

Sounds explosive.

http://public.cq.com/docs/hs/hsnews110-000002523531.html

With the election of George W. Bush in 2000, some of Taiwan’s most fervent
allies were swept back into power in Washington, particularly at the Pentagon,
starting with Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld.

They included such key architects of the Iraq War as Paul Wolfowitz,
the deputy defense secretary, Douglas Feith, the undersecretary for policy, and
Steven Cambone, Rumsfeld’s new intelligence chief, Wilkerson said. President
Bush’s controversial envoy to the United Nations, John Bolton, was
another.

While Bush publicly continued the one-China policy of his five White
House predecessors, Wilkerson said, the Pentagon “neocons” took a different
tack, quietly encouraging Taiwan’s pro-independence president, Chen Shui-bian.

“The Defense Department, with Feith, Cambone, Wolfowitz [and] Rumsfeld,
was dispatching a person to Taiwan every week, essentially to tell the Taiwanese
that the alliance was back on,” Wilkerson said, referring to pre-1970s military
and diplomatic relations, “essentially to tell Chen Shui-bian, whose entire
power in Taiwan rested on the independence movement, that independence was a
good thing.”