Taiwan Communiqué no. 133, September / October 2011

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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• The US F-16 sale to Taiwan
  • A/B upgrade moves ahead but C/D in limbo
  • A lose-lose fighter decision by Gerrit van der Wees


• Tsai Ing-wen comes to Washington
  • Welcomed by Congress and the Administration
  • Opinion polls show tight race
  • The Financial Times episode
  • A betrayal of mutual trust, by Ambassador Nat Bellocchi


• Former President Lee Teng-hui indicted
  • Timing suspicious at best
  • International scholars write again

• Report from Washington
  • House Committee on Foreign Affairs: Why Taiwan Matters
  • Taiwan Airpower Modernization Act in Congress
  • Taiwan Policy Act introduced in the House
  • House members introduce Taiwan-into-the-UN resolution


• Book Review
  • Leaving Taiwan, the Dutch VOC and the rest of the story
    • The Formosan Encounter, by Leonard Bluss�
    • A Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch East India Company, by Jos Gommans and Rob van Diessen
    reviewed by Prof. Jerome Keating