Archive for January, 2007

Gov’t to Consider Resumption of Canadian Beef Imports: Chen.

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

CNA
01/16/07.

President Chen Shui-bian said yesterday that Department of Health Minister Hou Sheng-mou will travel to Canada at the end of this month to assess whether to resume imports of Canadian beef.
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Evading Justice, Chinese Style.

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Taipei Times: Editorial
01/12/07.

When a wealthy, politically well-connected businessman pulls a scam worthy of a street hustler and flees with the cash to China we shouldn’t be surprised.
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Forum Looks at How to Turn Taiwan into a `Normal Country’.

Monday, January 15th, 2007

By Loa Iok-sin
Taipei Times
01/14/07.

National consciousness can only be fostered through a Taiwan-oriented history education, said a panelist attending a forum yesterday in Taipei on how to make Taiwan a normal country.
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The Myth of the Bad Economy.

Monday, January 8th, 2007

Taipei Times: Editorial
01/05/07.

Taiwan’s economy is going down the tubes. This is obvious, because it is what every politician and taxi driver in the country says. And if they say so, it must be true.
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President wades in to cross-strait fight.

Monday, January 8th, 2007

By Ko Shu-ling and Shih Hsiu-chuan
Taipei Times
01/02/07.

Although independence supporters might be split over how to deal with China, Chen Shui-bian said everyone in his administration was on the same page
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The fictional ’status quo,’ Part 2.

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

By June Teufel Dreyer
Taipei Times
12/21/06.

The US has gone on record as saying that it is in favor of a solution to the complex relationship between Taiwan and China that has the assent of the Taiwanese people, which would represent a change in the “status quo.”
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Taiwan’s Independence.

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

By Ian Williams
Foreign Policy in Focus
12/20/06.

China’s arguments against Taiwanese self-determination are not particularly legal or ethical. They boil down to the fact that Beijing has over a billion people, a huge economy, and over 900 missiles pointing at the nearby island.
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