11.  It restricts visits by Taiwanese officials.

12.  Lilley thinks Taiwanese officials would do better to focus on agencies such as the World Bank, the World Health Organization and Interpol.

13.  Lee said he was concerned because he himself had been giving Taiwanese officials unclassified documents that American officials say dealt with nuclear-reactor safety.

14.  Other diplomats said Beijing would increase its pressure on the games organising committee and the United States to stop high-ranking Taiwanese officials attending the opening ceremony.

15.  Recently, though, those expectations have faded amid talk that Japanese and Taiwanese agricultural officials were discussing allowing limited imports of disease-free Taiwanese pork into Japan.

16.  Taiwanese officials acknowledge that it is impossible to reverse the tide.

17.  Taiwanese officials say Japanese people tend to judge things simply as black or white, but Chinese society is complicated with many gray zones.

18.  Taiwanese officials are cautiously optimistic.

19.  Taiwanese officials did not say where in China the nuclear waste might be buried.

20.  The Chinese government, which does not allow the Vatican access to China, has also long objected to the United States granting transit visas to Taiwanese officials.