Editorial abstract Central News Agency 2010-08-24 By Y.F. Low According to Gallup’s latest Potential Net Migration Index, Taiwan would see a net 21 percent decrease in its population if everyone who wanted to come in and wanted to leave could do so. To explore this complicated problem, we should first get an idea of...
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Aug 17, 2010 The answer given by a police officer for blocking a protest could not have been more obscure, if not worrying. Asked on what grounds Tibetan protesters applying for a permit to demonstrate on Sunday against a controversial Tibetan Buddhist art exhibition at the National Palace Museum would have been turned down,...
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EDITORIAL Beijing showed much goodwill creating ECFA, but it had good reason to do so By The Nation Published on July 5, 2010 Much hullabaloo was created regarding the historic Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) between China and Taiwan concluded last week. The ECFA is not an agreement between governments, which obviously China would...
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EDITORIAL Taiwan News 2010-06-29 The responses by official spokesmen for President Ma Ying-jeou and the ruling rightist Chinese Nationalist Party to the open opposition of former president Lee Teng-hui to the controversial “Cross-strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement” with the authoritarian People’s Republic of China manifested the greatest problem in the promotion of this policy...
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The Taipei Times May 26, 2010 May 20 was the second anniversary of President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) inauguration. Over the last two years the government has perhaps attracted most attention for the way it has strengthened economic and political ties with China. Indeed, because this policy links Taiwan’s development to that of China, it...
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