Taiwan Communiqué no. 135, March / April 2012

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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• 2012 Elections: A retrospective
  • Mostly free but partly unfair
  • The elections: results and issues
  • Domestic issues versus the China factor
  • The US factor in Taiwan's elections
  • Taiwan's imperfect democracy by Julian Baum and Gerrit van der Wees
  • A Chinese shadow over Taiwan's elections


• The future of Taiwan-China relations
  • The DPP does soul-searching on China ties
  • Wu Poh-hsiung advocates "One country, two areas"
  • Int'l scholars: more cross-Strait tension

• How to move forward on US-Taiwan relations
  • Where is the beef?
  • Taiwan deserves normalized relations by ambassador Nat Bellocchi


• Former President Chen Shui-bian hospitalized
  • ... and returned to prison again


• Report from Washington
  • House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing


• Book Review
  • The Mapping of Taiwan, by Jerome Keating
    reviewed by Gerrit van der Wees