Taiwan Communiqué no. 140, February / March 2013

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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• Massive "Fury" rally in Taipei
  • Two hundred thousand take to the streets
  • Winter of discontent


• Senkaku conflict heating up
  • China ratchets up the pressure
  • US sends another mission to East Asia
  • KMT government still rocking the boat
  • CRS questions Taiwan's role
  • FAPA Board adopts Senkaku position


• Are human rights and freedoms eroding?
  • Freedom House: human rights not in jeopardy
  • Reporters without Borders: press freedom unchanged
  • DPP issues report on political persecution
  • Anti media-monopoly campaign churns on

• Former President Chen Shui-bian's health
  • Professor Jerome Cohen visits President Chen
  • Ma rejects national affairs conference
  • US Senators Inhofe and Murkowski express concern
  • Psychiatrist: Chen needs home environment
  • DPP urges medical parole
  • International scholars laud judge Hung Yin-hua


• Report from Washington
  • A change of guard at the State Department
  • What a new Congress means for Taiwan


• Book Review
  • Democratizing Taiwan, by Prof. J. Bruce Jacobs, reviewed by Gerrit van der Wees