Taiwan Communiqué no. 123, March / April 2009

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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• The Taiwan Relations Act at 30
  • A US commitment to a democracy
  • ... but perpetuation of "informal" ties


• An economic agreement with China?
  • From CEPA via CECA to ECFA
  • The DPP expresses its opposition
  • "Six cents" on trade agreement with China, by Professor Peter Chow, CUNY


• Remembering 228
  • Taiwanese around the world commemorate
  • Unsolved murders from the 1980's

• The judicial circus continues
  • The judiciary itself is on trial
  • Flaws in the prosecution against Chen Shui-bian
  • Freedom House speaks out again


• Report from Washington
  • Taiwan and the 111th Congress, by Coen Blaauw


• Book Review
  • Taiwan, in Search for Identity by Jerome Keating, reviewed by Gerrit van der Wees