Taiwan Communiqué no. 144, November / December 2013

TABLE OF CONTENTS
View this issue, Communiqué no. 144, in pdf-format. Adobe Acrobat Reader required.

• Senkaku tensions rise again
  • China declares Air Defense Identification Zone
  • Weak response from Taipei


• Taiwan's Constitutional crisis
  • The President against the Legislative Speaker
  • Speaker Wang Jin-pyng fights back
  • Longer-term implications


• Protests against Ma's policies continue
  • Black and white against Ma's blue-red policies
  • Ma Ying-jeou: "China not a foreign country"
  • Demonstrating against KMT Congress in Taichung
  • Shoe-throwing as symbol of discontent


• Flawed pact with PRC in limbo
  • KMT government pushes Service Trade Agreement
  • Engineers and other groups protest PRC accord

• Ma's "diplomatic truce" takes a hit
  • The Gambia cuts ties with Taiwan
  • Will it have a domino effect?


• Taiwan - Philippines relations thaw
  • Closing the fisheries conflict episode
  • Taiwan provides disaster relief assistance


• Former President Chen: five years in prison
  • Andrews urges support for medical parole
  • Report: Chen's health condition getting worse


• In Memoriam David Dean - 1925 - 2013
  • by Gerrit van der Wees