Taiwan Communiqué no. 121, November / December 2008

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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• Former President Chen Shui-bian arrested
  • Held in incommunicado detention


• Taiwan at the Crossroads
  • Ma moving too far, too fast .... and in the wrong direction
  • Six hundred thousand protest in Taipei
  • Towards de facto unification?


• The visit of ARATS Chief Chen Yunlin
  • Turning into a police state once again?
  • Guess who is coming to dinner?
  • The November 6th "Yellow Ribbon" siege
  • Students start "Wild Strawberry" protest

• Political arrests and detentions in Taiwan
  • Present and former DPP officials arrested
  • Scholars and writers express concern


• Taiwan and the United States
  • Obama and Taiwan: Fresh beginnings, new directionsby Julian Baum
  • The Bush Administration's Taiwan policy, a retrospective by Michael Fonte


• US arms sales to Taiwan proceed
  • The Bush Administration notifies Congress