Taiwan Communiqué no. 119, June / July 2008

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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• Tsai Ing-wen new DPP chairperson
  • Reforming and reinventing the party


• Transition of power in Taipei
  • What lies ahead with the Ma Administration
  • President Chen Shui-bian's legacy, by Mike Fonte
  • Inauguration of the new president , by Prof. Bruce Jacobs


• The presidential elections: a retrospective
  • Vote buying still prevalent
  • Opinion poll: no unification with China
  • Was it the economy, stupid? by Gerrit van der Wees


• Methodist Church adopts two resolutions on Taiwan

• Taiwanese reporters gagged by the UN
  • By Willy Fautr�, Human Rights Without Frontiers


• Report from Washington
  • Congressional support for Taiwan into the UN
  • President Chen accords orders to members of Congress


• Report from Europe
  • Give Taiwan credit for democracy, by Charles Tannock, member of the European Parliament


• In the Limelight
  • Tangwai magazine collection at GWU formally opened
  • The Taiwan Resource Center at George Washington University