Taiwan Communiqué no. 116, November / December 2007

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• Why the UN referendum is necessary
  • Countering Beijing's relentless pressure
  • Concern about Mr. Solana's concern
  • US opposition is undermining trust in US


• The "One China" policy: back to the basics
  by Gerrit van der Wees


• Taiwan's elections heating up
  • Legislative elections: all politics is local
  • Presidential elections: Hsieh, Ma battling it out
  • Referendums: in "one step" or "two steps"?


• The Presbyterian Church commemorates
  • 1977 Human Rights Declaration

• Report from Washington
  • First Transatlantic Dialogue held in Washington
  • High-level visits resolution introduced in Senate
  • House passes resolution on F-16 sale to Taiwan
  • Taiwan-into-the-UN resolution introduced


• Book Review
  • Why Taiwan? by Alan Wachman, Tufts University reviewed by Prof. Don Rodgers, Austin College
  
  
• In the limelight
  • Former Senator Claiborne Pell (D-RI)
    by Thomas G. Hughes