Taiwan Communiqué no. 108, April 2006

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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• National Unification Council RIP
  • President Chen axes a dysfunctional relic
  • Letter to President Bush by FAPA President Lee
  • Is the US asleep at the wheel? by the Taipei Times
• Where does Mr. Ma Ying-jeou�s loyalty lie?
  • by Gerrit van der Wees
• What �status quo� is the US preserving?
  • by Iris Ho
• The Taiwan arms budget stalemate drags on
  • The KMT fails to move
  • Ma Ying-jeou characteristically vague
  • The submarine issue surfaces again
  • China in the Quadrennial Defense Review

• Mr. Hu Jintao comes to Washington
  • Let history not repeat itself by Kin-ming Liu
• Report from Washington
  • Towards a US-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement by Coen Blaauw
  • Congress pushes for high-level visits
• Book Review
  • Forbidden Nation by Jonathan Manthorpe, reviewed by Timothy Bradberry