Article: High on Taipei.(Lifestyle)

Article: Taiwan in a Changing World: Search for Security
The China Journal;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Taiwan in a Changing World: Search for Security, by Harish Kapur. Bloomington: AuthorHouse...paperback), US$4.95 (e-book). This inexpensive book endeavors to provide an assessment of Taiwan's foreign policy along with a review of related developments in Taiwan since Chiang Kaishek retreated to the island in ...

Article: Taiwan Displays Its Feeble Fleet; As China Threatens, Island Is Eager for U.S. Help, Hardware
The Washington Post;  February 25, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Taiwan's navy calls it the Sea Leopard, but it looks like the...Philadelphia and Mount Pleasant, S.C. Unfortunately for Taiwan, however, the Sea Leopard is very much in the present...the closing days of World War II, makes up one-quarter of Taiwan's submarine fleet. As China threatens to attack ...

Article: Taiwan's Chen keeps China at bay: The new president reaches out to China, but isn't backing down on de facto autonomy.(World)
The Christian Science Monitor;  May 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Taiwan's new president, Chen Shui-bian, spent his first day on the job by traveling to the front...Chinese mainland. Quemoy, a rocky outpost much closer to mainland China than the island of Taiwan, is dotted with antiship traps, artillery bases, and Taiwanese troops. The trip is designed to show Chen ...

Article: Taiwan's Chen Backs Vote on Independence
The Washington Post;  August 4, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Taiwan's president, Chen Shui-bian, said today that he supported legislation for a referendum...independence from China. Chen also issued the clearest definition to date of his views of Taiwan's relations with China, fundamentally rejecting China's position that Taiwan and China belong to the same country. ...

Article: The Political Economy of Taiwan's Relations with Vietnam.
Contemporary Southeast Asia;  December 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Taiwan and Vietnam did not have any links from the mid-1970s to...political and economic relations. Economists contend that Taiwan's expanding investments in Vietnam play a key role behind this change. This article argues that the Taiwan authorities are using the island's economic resources in...

Article: TAIWAN ENDS `ONE NATION' POLICY; CHINA IS OUTRAGED CONCEPT HAS HELPED GOVERNMENTS AVERT WAR.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  July 13, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Taiwan has abandoned the political formula that has long helped...longer adhere to the principle that the Chinese mainland and Taiwan are two parts of the same country. Beijing's response was...The shift, surprising and sudden, risks badly souring Taiwan's relations with China and also could worsen the ...

Article: Taiwan: Spotlight on the young democracy's judicial system.(WORLD)
The Christian Science Monitor;  May 21, 2009 ;     700+ words ......January, and February.) In a December poll conducted by Taiwan's Academia Sinica, 50 percent of Taiwanese said the island's judicial system was biased (compared...percent who said it was impartial), while 59 percent said Taiwanese law did not sufficiently safeguard human rights. At Taiwan's own ...

Article: Taiwanese say it's time to scrap island's official name 'Republic of China' and replace it with 'Taiwan'
AP Worldstream;  May 11, 2002 ;     547 words ......the pro-independence marchers were ignorant of history. Taiwan independence supporters' actions and deeds are a betrayal of the Chinese people and a betrayal of their Taiwanese ancestors, the editorial said. The more they step up...believe, the sooner they will be spurned by the people of Taiwan. Wearing ...

Article: Taiwan hesitates on U.S. plan to restructure island's military
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  November 2, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Taiwan hesitates on U.S. plan to restructure island's military...P. PAN Washington Post Sunday, November 2, 2003 Taipei, Taiwan -- The Bush administration has quietly embarked on an ambitious effort to restructure Taiwan's military and improve the island's ability to defend itself...

Article: China fumes as Taiwan pushes its identity
The Boston Globe;  September 24, 1995 ;     700+ words ......devote full time to women's issues and to campaigning for Taiwanese membership in the United Nations. "The root came from China, but the leaves are international. "In some ways Taiwanese are not Chinese," Lu said, "but in other ways we are...Relations have deteriorated sharply since the president of ...

Article: TAIWAN: PRESIDENT MA MEETS AMERICAN INSTITUTE IN TAIWAN CHAIRMAN RAYMOND BURGHARDT
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 23, 2009 ;     700+ words ...TAIPEI, Taiwan, March 18 -- The office of the President of Taiwan issued the following news release: President Ma Ying-jeou met with American Institute in Taiwan Chairman Raymond Burghardt on the morning of March 18...

Article: Enter the Little Dragon;Is Taiwan's Independence Movement Playing With China's Fire?
The Washington Post;  December 15, 1991 ;     700+ words ......China, but few have actually accepted Beijing's claim that Taiwan is a province of China. Such is also true of the 1979...immediately altered, to Beijing's chagrin, by Congress's Taiwan Relations Act. The act restored security guarantees and...the nearly official level maintained today. It sealed ...

Article: Thousands demand change to island's official name; Sensitive issue: Marchers say it should be called Taiwan, not the Republic of China
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  May 12, 2002 ;     444 words ......pro- independence marchers were ignorant of history. "Taiwan independence supporters' actions and deeds are a betrayal of the Chinese people and a betrayal of their Taiwanese ancestors," it said. "The more they step up their trouble-maki...believe, the sooner they will be spurned by the people of ...

Article: Taiwanese marchers demand the government ditch the name 'Republic of China' for 'Taiwan'
AP Worldstream;  May 11, 2002 ;     451 words ......the island's official name from the Republic of China to Taiwan. The issue of renaming the island is extremely sensitive...provoke China, which has repeatedly threatened to attack if Taiwan makes bold moves toward independence. The two sides split...decades ago amid civil war, but Beijing still claims that ...