Taiwan Communiqué no. 149, January / February 2015

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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• The aftermath of the November elections
  • More on the new political landscape
  • The DPP wins in legislative by-elections
  • A new beginning for Taipei
  • KMT vote-buying in Tainan City elections


• Implications for cross-Strait relations
  • Bringing about true cross-Strait stability
  • Changing the cross-Strait paradigm
  • Washington's obsolete Taiwan policy by Michael Turton

• Towards the first Sunflower anniversary
  • Prosecutors go after Sunflower leaders
  • Prosecution in related cases
  • The Appendectomy Project moves forward


• The Kuomintang tries to re-invent itself
  • "Eric" Chu Li-luen elected party chairman
  • What about the ill-gotten party assets?


• President Chen released on medical parole
  • Bureaucratic delays and unreasonable conditions


• In Memoriam
  • Reverend "John" Tin Jyi-jiokk (1922-2014)