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Article: Taiwan dances on tightrope; Drawing up a new constitution irritates relations with Beijing.(WORLD)(BRIEFING: PACIFIC RIM)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
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- July 30, 2004
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Byline: I-wei J. Chang, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Taiwan's "new constitution" will be focused on improving democratic governance and protecting civil liberties, and won't touch the sensitive issues in cross-strait relations, a Taiwan government minister said in Washington last week.
"After so many years of transition, it's time that Taiwan move forward and come up with a new constitution. That 'new' doesn't mean a separate government. The 'new' means new timing, new process and new scope," Minister Yeh Jiunn-rong, chairman of the Research, Development and Evaluation Commission under Taiwan's executive branch, said during a discussion at the Woodrow Wilson ...