Protesters rally against KKPTC plan - Taipei Times

Protesters rally against KKPTC plan - Taipei Times: "Hundreds of people — mainly university students — last night staged a rally outside the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) to protest a petrochemical industrial park project proposed by Kuokuang Petrochemical Technology Co (KKPTC), ahead of an environmental impact assessment meeting to be held this morning.

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DPP falls into the ‘one China’ trap - Taipei Times

DPP falls into the ‘one China’ trap - Taipei Times: "Here’s a good tip. If you want to win an argument or debate, draw your opponent into discussing a subject of your own choosing, confining their ideas to parameters you yourself have set. A good example of this is the drawn-out debate on “two interpretations of the Constitution” and “a constitutional one China” that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has been engaged in of late. I would say that the party has clearly allowed itself to fall into the trap.

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Clinton urges PRC to reduce tensions - Taipei Times

Clinton urges PRC to reduce tensions - Taipei Times: "S Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday called for a reduction in military tensions and deployments across the Taiwan Strait.

Speaking just days before the arrival in Washington of Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤), Clinton gave notice that there would be no changes in US-Taiwan relations — despite signals from Beijing that it is strongly opposed to US weapons sales to Taipei.

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Gates reiterates US’ Taiwan policy - Taipei Times

Gates reiterates US’ Taiwan policy - Taipei Times: "US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that following his substantive meetings in Beijing this week, which included talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤), he did not anticipate any change in US policies toward Taiwan.

At a roundtable meeting with US reporters in Beijing, Gates said he was completing a “very positive visit” that had been “superior to any previous visit that I have had here in China.”

The three-day visit, which ended yesterday, was aimed at improving US-China military links in advance of Hu’s state visit to Washington next week.

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Reviews for referendums need to be re-examined - Taipei Times

Reviews for referendums need to be re-examined - Taipei Times: "Proposals for a referendum on the cross-strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) have been turned down a record four times in a row, prompting widespread demand for the Referendum Act (公民投票法) to be amended. As well as lowering the thresholds for holding referendums in terms of the number of proposers and the number of votes required for a referendum to pass, and defining the effects of referendums more clearly, people are calling for the abolition of the Referendum Review Commission (RRC, 公民投票審議委員會), which is such an obstacle to holding referendums.

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PRC’s fifth-generation jet pictures cause stir in US - Taipei Times

PRC’s fifth-generation jet pictures cause stir in US - Taipei Times: "Signaling a greater-than-ever military threat to Taiwan, new information emerged this week showing that China might be much further ahead in its development of a fifth-generation fighter aircraft than previously believed.

In what has caused a major stir within the Pentagon, Beijing Internet censors earlier this week allowed high-resolution photographs of the Chengdu Aircraft Corp stealth fighter to be published for the first time.

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Taiwan’s Strides Toward China Accelerate | theTrumpet.com by the Philadelphia Church of God

Taiwan’s Strides Toward China Accelerate | theTrumpet.com by the Philadelphia Church of God: "But when Ma came into office in 2008, he made conciliatory overtures toward Beijing, and cross-Strait friction began to lessen. Ma’s most recent remarks show that the relationship is on course to warm drastically.

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