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I answered the routine question about my itinerary, rather coolly.

Chiang spoke again, this time at greater length.

`` The President says '', the translator came in, `` that the reason he asked you where you were going is because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia, and that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question.

He says that if he were to express to you, once again, his own profound determination to go to the Mainland, and his faith that that return is feasible, he would merely sound redundant.

So you yourself must seek these objective data, and come to your own conclusions.

Any information we have here in Taiwan is at your disposal ''.