Taiwan Communiqué no. 147, September / October 2014

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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• Nine-in-one elections coming up
  • Mid-term elections in the final stretch
  • A tight race in Taipei
  • Crucial races in other towns in Taiwan
  • Main issues in these local elections


• Taiwan's Sunflower movement continued
  • Cross-Strait legislation continues to stall
  • Government prosecutors go after students
  • Account of the Executive Yuan occupation
  • Emerging leaders fly to the United States
  • A Sunflower delegation visits Washington

• Report from Washington
  • The 1994 Taiwan Policy Review revisited
  • House urges Secretary Kerry to undertake policy review
  • Taiwan's elections and U.S. interests


• In Memoriam
  • Professor Liao Shu-tsung (1931-2014)
  • Historian Tsao Yung-ho (1920-2014)
  • Sunflower leader Oliver Chen (1988-2014)


• Book Review: Taiwan's Struggle; Voices of the Taiwanese
  • edited by Shyu-tu Lee and Jack Williams, reviewed by Gerrit van der Wees