Taiwan Communiqué no. 139, December 2012

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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• FAPA celebrates 30th anniversary
  • Birthday bash in San Jose, California
  • Former governor Murkowski's keynote speech
  • Members of Congress express appreciation


• Tensions surrounding Senkakus continuing
  • China ratchets up the pressure
  • US mission to Japan and China


• Hsieh Chang-ting and the DPP "China debate"
  • Attending a bartenders convention
  • ... but meeting Chinese officials
  • Taiwan's "China policy" could be very simple by Mei-chin Chen

• Leadership transition in Beijing and Washington
  • What implications for Taiwan? by Julian Baum


• Unpopular policies push Ma's polls down
  • Waffling on pension reform and electricity rates
  • Ma rejects national affairs conference
  • The Economist: Ma the "ineffective bumbler"
  • Erosion of press freedom with Next Media sale
  • China includes Taiwan in passport map


• Medical parole for former president Chen
  • Liberal International calls for medical parole
  • Senator Brown urges AIT Director to visit Chen
  • Granting medical parole would heal the nation by Ambassador Nat Bellocchi
  • MOFA/MOJ press conference: no medical parole