From CNSNEWS.COM: “First, there was Moscow’s meddling and blustering over the recent Ukrainian presidential elections. Then, there was the sell-off and nationalization of Yukos, one of Russia’s largest private oil companies. And now the latest bad news: Russia’s growing military cooperation with Asia’s rising superpower, China.”
Read MoreFrom the Asia Times Online: “At first glance, the world was very surprised by the timing of the announcement last Friday that Beijing was starting the legislative initiative of an anti-secession law, as it came after Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian’s pro-independence party and its allies suffered a defeat in Taiwan’s legislative elections on December 11. […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: “The Chinese Communist party has reason to be satisfied with recent election results – not on the undemocratic mainland, of course, but in the outlying territories of Hong Kong and Taiwan. In Hong Kong’s legislative elections in September, democratic parties failed to make as much headway as they had hoped, thus […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: “Cross-Straits tensions may continue despite Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian’s pro-independence coalition’s surprise defeat in Saturday’s “legislative” elections. Leading mainland researchers described the losses for Chen’s coalition Sunday as a major setback rather than a decisive blow.” Also on China Daily, another article entitled: Separatist plan goes nowhere.
Read MoreFrom CNN: “Taiwan’s opposition has won a legislative majority in a stunning upset over President Chen Shui-Bian’s pro-independence coalition. The opposition Nationalist Party and its allies won a combined 114 of the 225 seats in parliament in Saturday’s election, the Central Election Commission said.”
Read MoreFrom the Associate Press: “Taiwan’s leader urged voters to make history Saturday by giving his party and its pro-independence ally control of the legislature for the first time — a change that could bring the island closer to a conflict with rival China.”
Read MoreFrom BBC: “Taiwan’s voters go to the polls on Saturday for parliamentary elections which could shape the way the island handles relations with China.” “All 225 seats in the Legislative Yuan are being contested, in the first electoral test since March’s disputed presidential race. President Chen Shui-bian narrowly won then, and his DPP hopes now […]
Read MoreAsia Times runs a story today on the impact that the EU’s lift of arms embargo might have on China’s political prisoners. Li Jing wrote, “the news currently making the rounds in in Beijing’s political circles is that China will soon release some political prisoners and commute the sentences of others, in an effort to […]
Read MoreVia Taiwan Security Research, the Far Eastern Economic Review published an interview with Colin Powell on Oct. 28, 2004: “United States Secretary of State Colin Powell will try to jump-start the stalled talks on North Korea’s nuclear-weapons programme during visits to Japan, China and South Korea beginning on October 23, 10 days before the U.S. […]
Read MoreFrom the China Post: “Government agencies responsible for information security operations yesterday revealed that cyberspace attackers, allegedly mainly from China, mounted more than 5,000 assaults on various government...
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