Taiwan Communiqué no. 127, March / April 2010

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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• The ECFA debate heats up
  • The DPP and others see dangers
  • Demonstration for "Rice Bowl", against "Black Box"
  • FTAs with other countries?


• Local elections change political landscape
  • January 9th by-elections landslide for the DPP
  • February 27th elections hard-fought


• Reassessing relations with China?
  • Obama Administration approves arms sales
  • Google and China: Cyber War?


• Erosion of justice and democracy continues
  • Former President Chen's incarceration extended
  • Freedom House downgrades Taiwan on Liberties
  • KMT forces amendments of Local Governments Act

• Taiwan commemorates 228 and Lin family murder
  • Sixty-three years after "February 28"
  • Inquiry on 1980s political murders a whitewash


• Report from Washington
  • US DIA assesses Taiwan's air defense
  • Where is the beef?


• In Memoriam Jim Lilley
  • Helped democratic transition in Taiwan


• Book Review
  • The Spanish Experience in Taiwan, 1626-1642
    by Jos� Borao, reviewed by Gerrit van der Wees