But that May and June, ministers like me flew to Beijing for what seemed to us all to be a positive and truly historic occasion. China allowed Taiwan to attend the Asian Development Bank’s annual board meeting for the first time, provided it was called “Taipei, China.”
人们都记得1989年天安门杀人事件。但在当年5月和6月，包括我在内的部长官员飞往北京见证一个在我们所有人看来都具有积极意义的真正的历史时刻。中国首次接受台湾出席亚洲开发银行理事会年会，提出的要求是以“中国台北”名义出席。