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...nearly 60-year cross-strait standoff, and isn't likely to nix what appears to be a minor thaw between Beijing and Taipei. The recent Lunar New Year holiday saw the first nonstop commercial flights between the mainland and Taiwan, and last week Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian made a pact with James Soong, a rival politician who wants better ties with China, not to declare independence, change Taiwan's formal name from the Republic of China, or rule out eventual unification with China...
...that Japan's new self-confidence extends even to the most sensitive of all matters in the region-the future of Taiwan. The island was a colony of Japan from 1895 to 1945 and ties between the two nations remain remarkably close. Advisers to Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian, whom Beijing loathes, happily describe Japan as an ally, while in Tokyo, political leaders such as Shinzo Abe, secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party and frequently tipped to be Koizumi's successor, have made no secret of their support for Taipei. Taiwan, Abe pointed out last year, has been...
...China, and one million Taiwanese now live on the mainland. Many of them have urged their government to improve relations with China. In 2003, Taipei and Beijing had a similar agreement for one-stop charter flights during the Lunar New Year. (In 2004, during Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's reelection bid, Beijing refused to permit the charters.) But unlike 2003, when the charters were limited to Taiwan airlines, this year mainland carriers will be allowed to land in Taiwan for the first time. "This is a historic moment," says Eric Teng, a Shanghai-based businessman from Taiwan...
...This is the right path, and we will continue to walk on it with courage, until our people finally have a normal, complete, progressive, beautiful and great country." CHEN SHUI-BIAN, Taiwan's President, praising the island's recent constitutional reforms in his annual New Year's Day address...
...married into the political dynasty in 1935. As First Lady from 1978 to 1988, Chiang avoided the public spotlight and lacked the glamour of her predecessor, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, but won respect for her modest lifestyle and dedication to her four children. Recalled Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian, "She had the values of a traditional Chinese woman...