Taiwan Communiqué no. 117, January/February 2008

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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• Legislative election results
  • A vote for closer relations with China?
  • The numbers and two referendums
  • Can the DPP overcome a drubbing? by Prof. Bruce Jacobs


• Taiwan�s referendum to enter the UN
  • Condoleezza Rice plays Ebenezer Scrooge
  • The US needs to do the right thing by Prof. Wen-yen Chen


• The Presbyterian Church speaks out
  • Declaration on UN membership for Taiwan

• Consolidating human rights and democracy
  • Former prison becomes human rights museum
  • CKS Memorial become Democracy Memorial Hall
• Report from Washington
  • HFAC Committee Chairman Tom Lantos leaving
  • Free Trade Agreement resolution in Senate
  • Congress calls for election observers


• In the limelight
  • Former Congressman Lester L. Wolff (D-NY)