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Taiwan News editorial: Taiwan must find way in new Asia

Taipei Times editorial: Sichuan earthquake: Taiwan gives with an open heart

Charles Snyder: China spy suspect Kuo Tai-shen admits guilt

Taipei Times editorial: Su Chi: One old face we don't need to see

Prof. Bruce Jacobs: PNG scandal: spending money where it matters

Taipei Times editorial: If that’s how you treat a friend

Gerrit van der Wees: Could it be the economy, stupid?

Paul Lin: Learning from the Communists

Taiwan News editorial: Ma must keep 'Pacific' policy

Su Chi gets top job at NSC

Taiwan News editorial: Why Taipei gambled on PNG

Lai I-chung: The danger in choosing China over other states

World Taiwanese Congress 'concerned' over KMT victory

Foreign Minister Huang resigns over PNG scandal

US academics expect little change in Taiwan, US ties

Rick Fisher in the AWSJ: China's Naval Secrets

Taipei Times editorial: Will Japan get in bed with China?

Taiwan News editorial: The PNG scandal and its lesson

Taipei Times editorial: Cheap talk proves costly to economy

Richard Halloran: Two writers show extent of schism

Taipei Times editorial: The pitfalls of dollar diplomacy

Li Thian-hok: Can Ma keep Taiwanese freedom?

Lin Cho-shui: Making more concessions to China?

US lawmakers warn EU on lifting China arms ban

Taiwan News editorial: No "two systems" for Taiwan

John Pomfret's China: The ugly Chinese

Paul Lin: Choosing Lai for MAC has blues seeing red

MAC chair-elect Lai Shin-yuan: says she supports Ma’s cross-strait policies

Lu I-ming: Sorting out who should talk to Hu

Jonathan Manthorpe in the Vancouver Sun: New Taiwan leader shows an early streak of independence

Lai Shin-yuan as new MAC chief: Voices for, against her appointment grow

Taipei Times editorial: Et tu, my KMT colleagues?

Liu Shih-chung: Do not sideline foreign policy now

Europarliament member Charles Tannock: Give Taiwan credit for democracy

Taiwan News editorial: Ma Ying-jeou breaks the tilt towards the PRC

Taiwan News editorial: Tibet, Taiwan, PRC and Human Rights

Taiwan News: DPP council calls for 'center-left' reform

Visiting foreign scholars: Taiwan should define its identity

Christian Science Monitor: China bends on Taiwan, why not Tibet?

John J. Tkacik Jr: The US and Tibet; Leadership event

Ma Ying-jeou damps hopes of early Taiwan-China ties

Prof. Dan Lynch in the FEER: Mr. Ma's Taiwanese Identity

John Bolton in the LATimes: What's good for Taiwan

John Tkacik: Taiwan's elections: Sea change in the Strait

AEI / Armitage report on improving US-Taiwan relations

One hundred European parliament members express support for Taiwan

BBC: Taiwanese to rally over China law

Taiwan ThinkTank poll shows 61% opposed to referenda boycott by KMT

Taiwan News editorial: The KMT caucus of corruption

Prof. Alan Wachman: Washington Succumbs to the PRC’s Diplomacy of Panic

Therese Shaheen in the WashTimes: Wobble over Taiwan

Taiwan News editorial: The U.S. should back democratic values

Washington Post: Ad by 67 overseas Taiwanese organizations

The Economist: In praise of Taiwan’s democracy

TIME Magazine: Beijing's joy at Taiwan's democracy

Gary Schmitt in the Wall St. Journal: Our One-China Cowardice

Taiwan News editorial: DPP must return to democratic roots

Wall St. Journal: Taiwan's KMT party wins legislative elections

Shelly Rigger in the WSJ: Changing the Vote, Voting for Change

Chicago Tribune: Interview with President Chen Shui-bian

Taiwan News editorial: KMT surrenders in ballot flap

President Chen Shui-bian reiterates resolve to hold UN referendum

Taiwan News editorial: US must respect strategic value of Taiwan democracy

Taiwan News editorial: Ma Ying-jeou was not "backlisted" but a student-spy

Taiwan regrets Rice comments on referendum

Foreign Minister James Huang: rejects US criticism of island's UN referendum

David Shambaugh in the IHT: The "China honeymoon" in Europe is over

Jonathan Eyal in the Straits Times: The End of a Sino-EU Love Affair

Simon Tisdal in The Guardian: Taiwan squeezed as US and China negotiate

Radio Taiwan International: FAPA protests US opposition to UN referendum

Adar Primor in the Haaretz (Jerusalem): Our moral nakedness

Far Eastern Economic Review: Lee Teng-hui, the father of Taiwanese identity

Christian Science Monitor editorial: The bully in China's shop

Ambassador Harvey Feldman: The "Six Assurances" and their meaning today

Associated press: Taiwan demonstrates military prowess at National Day parade

Int'l Herald Tribune: Taiwan and China flex military muscles

Howard French in the IHT: Myanmar crackdown sheds light on Beijing's aspirations

New York Times: Taiwan plans missiles able to hit China

Christian Science Monitor: UN bid puts Taiwan on skids with China

New York rally for UN bid draws record numbers

Members of Congress Chabot, Berkley and Rohrabacher: Don't abandon Taiwan

TIME Magazine: Taiwan's War of Words with the US

Arthur Waldron: Let the US show leadership on Taiwan

BBC: Taiwanese march to back UN bid

BBC: Taiwan UN marches in pictures

Channel NewsAsia: Hundreds of thousands rally in Taiwan over UN bid

Associated Press: Taiwan holds rival rallies for UN bid

CNN: President Chen blasts US over Taiwan's UN referendum

Int'l Herald Tribune: Taiwan holds rival rallies to support competing UN bids

John Tkacik: Dealing with Taiwan's referendum on the United Nations

Wall Street Journal: Interview with President Chen Shui-bian

Shieh Jhy-wey in the NY Sun: Again, the case for Taiwan

Taiwan Journal: US official's comments on Taiwan's status cause uproar

The Economist: America blunders into Taiwan's election politics

President Chen's remarks at video conference hosted by the American Enterprise Institute

Ambassador Harvey Feldman: Responsible stakeholders

Seattle Times editorial: Let Taiwan vote on UN membership

Congressman Tom Tancredo: Welcome Taiwan to the world

Michael Kau and James Huang: Taiwan and the UN: What's is a name?

Prof Arthur Waldron: Is it "Taiwan" or the "Republic of China"?

Shieh Jhy-wey in the Washington Times: Taiwan's worthiness

Full text of President Chen's interview with the BBC

Information Minister Shieh Jhy-wey: Show your true colors

John J. Tkacik: Free trade with Taiwan is long overdue

James F. Paradise: Resisting the "bully neighbor"

Int'l Herald Tribune: UN rejects Taiwan's application to become a member

President Chen Shui-bian in the WashTimes: Beijing's 'one China': the Cross-Strait Jacket

Washington Post: Taiwan Leader vows to pursue vote on island's name

Iris Ho Yenching: Outdated status quo in the Taiwan Strait

President Chen Shui-bian: Remarks to the members of the National Press Club in Washington DC

Forbes.com: Taiwan's President Chen goes for the assist