Taiwan Communiqué no. 129, September / October 2010

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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• China's military challenge and Taiwan
  • China's actions and expansionism raises concerns
  • Which way is the Ma administration tilting?


• "Big Five" elections in November
  • DPP increases chances of win in the North
  • Elections will change political landscape


• ECFA signed and approved, now what?
  • Legislative Yuan reneges on its role
  • Major demonstrations protest ECFA signing


• Opinion polls in Taiwan
  • Economic rebound doesn't increase Ma popularity
  • Pro-independence sentiment grows
  • Nat Bellocchi: Reading Taiwan's Tea Leaves

• The Pentagon Annual report on China
  • No missile drawdown in spite of "reconciliation"
  • What is happening with the F-16s?


• The games big nations play ...
  • ... also at Little League, by Gary Schmitt


• Erosion of justice and democracy
  • High Court reduces Chen sentence to 20 years


• Report from Washington
  • Taiwan-into-the-UN resolution introduced


• In memoriam Dr. Lin Tsung-yi
  • A towering figure in Taiwan and overseas


• Book Review
  • The Path to Taiwan's Democracy by Nat Bellocchi, reviewed by Gerrit van der Wees