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...side of the waterway is Taiwan, whose democratically elected leader speaks of it as a sovereign state. On the other side is China, which regards Taiwan as no more than a renegade province, and has vowed to prevent, by force if need be, any formal declaration of independence by Taipei. Oh, and another thing: the U.S. is committed to defending Taiwan if it is attacked without provocation. Put all that together, and you've got a spot that is definitively hot. Yet when news broke last week that the draft of a communiqué by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza...
...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 separated from the mainland for 50 years, "so perhaps it's natural for them to want independence." That sort of sentiment has Beijing using language a lot stronger than "irresponsible...
APPOINTED. FRANK HSIEH, 58, Kaohsiung's Mayor, as Taiwan's new Premier, following the resignation of former Premier Yu Shyi-kun and his cabinet; in Taipei. A one-time civil-rights lawyer who previously served as chairman of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, Hsieh is known as a moderate who could help smooth rocky relations with Taiwan's opposition majority...
...province and hasn't ruled out reuniting with it by force. An accord on cross-strait travel shows a rare willingness to compromise. "It's hard to tell whether both sides will continue the dialogue," says Andrew Yang, secretary general of the Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies in Taipei, "but this is a very positive approach which shows both Beijing and Taipei are eager to establish some kind of interaction to create mutual trust...
...Taipei has sought a means to resume talks with the mainland since discussions broke down six years ago. The island's businesses have invested an estimated $100 billion in 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...