Taiwan Communiqué no. 150, March / April 2015

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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• Tsai Ing-wen presidential candidate
  • Crucial presidential election race takes shape
  • Legislative candidates juggle for position
  • New political parties enter the fray


• No consensus on the "1992 Consensus"
  • President Ma clings to the "1992 Consensus"
  • President Xi Jinping moves the goalposts
  • Tsai Ing-wen vows to maintain the status quo


• Sunflowers celebrate first anniversary
  • "Let the people decide"

• The Constitutional reform debate
  • The presidential or the parliamentary system?
  • Changing the Referendum Law


• Report from Washington
  • Undersecretary Wendy Sherman's remarks
  • The "process" versus "oucome" debate by FAPA President Mark Kao


• In Memoriam
  • Composer Hsiao Tyzen (1938-2015)


• Book Review
  • The 'Civilizing Process' in Dutch Formosa by Professor Chiu Hsin-hui