Relationship With U.S. Like "Brokeback Mountain" Story Taiwan's President Says
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
February 24, 2006 - 12:00 am ET

(Taipei) The President of Taiwan says that the relationship the island nation has with the United States is like the message in "Brokeback Mountain", the Academy Award nominated film by Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee about two cowboys in love.

"It motivates us...to understand all of us are bound to make difficult decisions in life, yet we must strive to dispel prejudice...and seek ways to reconcile and cooperate with one another," President Chen Shui-bian told a gathering of more than 500 American business leaders in Taipei.

"There is a 'Brokeback Mountain' in each and every one of us."

"I deeply believe that the common pursuit of a 'great new world' by both Taiwan and the United States will guide us to a place where universal values - democracy, freedom, peace and prosperity - can be fully realized in the world we share," Chen told the business leaders.
While touting his government's economic policies he made no mention of his plan for future relations with the People's Republic of China.

"Brokeback Mountain" has been playing to packed theaters in Taiwan where Ang Lee is highly revered.

But, across the Taiwan Strait in China the film has been banned by government censors.

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