The Christian Science Monitor has an editorial about cross-Straits relations: Small, democratic Taiwan expects volleys of verbal fireworks against it next week when China’s Communist Party meets in a congress held every five years. The new threats wouldn’t be worth much notice – if China wasn’t also revving up its war machine against Taiwan. China’s […]
Read MoreThe Times looks at the recent deal by Taiwan’s Acer to buy U.S.-based Gateway through the lens of cross-straits relations: The deal represents a double setback to Lenovo and to China, which has a bitter and longstanding dispute with Taiwan over the island’s independence. Roger Kay, the president of Endpoint Technologies, an American consultancy, said: […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: US Senator Barack Obama, rising star in the Democratic primaries ahead of next year’s presidential election and dubbed “the black JFK” (a reference to the late president John F Kennedy) by some of the US media, has delivered his first direct comment on the relationship between mainland China and Taiwan since […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Taiwan’s foreign minister warned Monday that Beijing’s establishment of diplomatic relations over the weekend with Chad, one of Taiwan’s few remaining allies, would hurt relations across the Taiwan Strait. Foreign Minister James Huang of Taiwan said the switch in diplomatic relations followed two months of secret meetings between Chadian and […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: A two-day economic forum has opened in Taiwan aiming to chart a course for the island’s economic development over the next decade. Heated debates in preparatory meetings failed to reach any consensus. As a result, two of the most sensitive issues – establishing direct transport links and relaxing investment limits for Taiwanese […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): Politically, Taiwan’s relationship to Beijing could be characterized primarily as a rift borne of defiance on one side and menacing rebuke on the other. But geologically, the small island of Taiwan appears to be on a collision course with mainland China. Over millions of years, that is. Now an […]
Read MoreNine months ago, I posted the list of 1041 filtered words from a file obtained by a Chinese hacker from a Chinese Internet company Tencent. This list was also cross checked with another two lists CDT independently received from...
Read MoreFrom People’s daily online: Visiting Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) Party Chairman Lien Chan reiterated his unwillingness to see a prolonged stalemate in the cross-Straits relations after arriving at Xi’an, capital of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, the third leg on his eight-day mainland tour, at around 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Lien said he hoped to learn more about […]
Read MoreFrom the Central News Agency, via Taiwan News Online: Beijing’s Anti-Secession Law is by no means a law of peace because it cuts short China’s decision-making process for war, and threatens cross-Taiwan Strait relations and stability in the region, the Republic of China’s Representative to the United States David Lee (Êùé§ßÁ∂≠) said Wednesday. Lee made […]
Read MoreThe following information is from Jerry Stryker’s email: If one can judge from the output of People’s Daily Online, Beijing is bending over backward, as the old song goes, to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative in its follow-on treatment of ASL. The following items appear in today’s table of contents: * Editorial: A […]
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