Word: straits
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...agreement is significant to more than the convenience of the estimated 5 million Taiwanese who traveled to China last year, or to the 1 million who now live and work on the mainland. It is expected to aid Taiwan's economy and ease tensions across the combustible Taiwan Strait, the 112 mile (180 km) wide body of water separating mainland China and Taiwan. The direct-flight deal was reached by two semi-official bodies representing Beijing and Taipei in their touchy diplomatic contacts: Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation and China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits...
...agreement is expected to give a modest boost to Taiwan's economy. More cross-strait tourism will boost annual GDP growth by .6% to .8%, according to a report on tourism in Taiwan by Goldman Sachs. "The implementation of these policies would support a recovery in sentiments and domestic demands ... and should help Taiwan offset the negative external shock from slower U.S. demand and higher energy prices," wrote Goldman Sachs analyst Enoch Fung...
...been shy about making clear what's at stake. If the U.S. or Israel so much as drops a bomb on one of its reactors or its military training camps, Iran will shut down Gulf oil exports by launching a barrage of Chinese Silkworm missiles on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and Arab oil facilities. In the worst case scenario, seventeen million barrels of oil would come off world markets...
...Bridge to the Mainland? Thank you for bringing attention to Taiwan with the report "Strait Talker," about Ma Ying-jeou's presidential campaign [March 24]. It is true that nowadays we Taiwanese care about our identity and true spirit more and more. We will never accept losing our sovereignty and, I deeply believe, neither will the two presidential hopefuls. Taiwan is a unique and beautiful country whose fate lies in the hands of its own people, not those of any other country. We are all expecting a change for Taiwan. World, just wait and see. Vivian Wei-An Tsai, Taichung...
...enough of a politician to know he cannot be a change agent all by himself. There are myriad ways he can stumble. His pledge to improve people's livelihoods will be hard to fulfill. On cross-strait initiatives, he requires Beijing to go along, and, within his own party, he has to walk a tightrope between competing factions. But Ma should be able to lean on the KMT-controlled legislature and, in a bid to heal the island's divisions between the two main parties and between mainlanders and Taiwanese, he has reached out to the DPP, acknowledging its contribution...