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Article: Taiwan Dances on a Tightrope: Prospective New Constitution Irritates Beijing.
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- The World and I
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- September 1, 2004
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I-wei J. Chang is a writer with 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 ...