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...strategic experts. A multibillion-dollar arms purchase from the U.S., pushed by President Chen Shui-bian, has been held up for almost four years because of resistance by the opposition KMT and PFP parties, which claim that the weapons are overpriced. Wu Tung-yeh, a professor at National Chengchi University's Institute of International Relations, believes the island has let its guard down. "Taiwan," he says, "will have neither will nor the ability to defend itself against China...
...couple of ministers noted that drastic measures were probably needed. Everyone ate mangoes. And then, finally, they made the day's only decision: to go home. "Nobody addressed the economic problems. They couldn't figure out what to discuss," says committee member Norman Yin, a professor at National Chengchi University. "You could say there was some confusion...
...Chang. In five years, China may have dulled Taiwan's technological edge and stolen its best people, and that's bad news for any leader of Taiwan. Worse, "China's growing economic leverage could intensify the domestic urge to unify," says Lin Chu-chia, professor of economics at National Chengchi University. In which case, those who have already voted once with their feet will be unlikely to cast a ballot for Chen Shui-bian...