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Disputes Resurface
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Taiwan-Japan Fishing Authority Scheduled to Meet in Late
April (2013-04-15)
(CNA)
The first meeting of a fishing commission jointly set up by Taiwan and Japan
will be held in late April to discuss follow-up issues after the sides signed a
historic deal on fishing rights, a Taiwanese official
said.
Fishing in Troubled Waters (2013-04-16)
(China
Real Time Report, By William Kazar and Jenny Hsu) China may have felt it had
bigger fish to fry last week when it gave a low-key response to a maritime deal
between Japan and Taiwan on access to waters near disputed islands in the East
China Sea.
Scholar Praises Bilateral Talks That Gave Way to Taiwan's Fishery
Pact (2013-04-18)
(CNA)
A Japanese scholar and retired senior diplomat praised a fishing agreement
recently signed between Taiwan and Japan as a good example of what dialogue can
produce.
Ma Gives Speech at Stanford via Videoconference (2013-04-17)
(China
Post) President Ma Ying-jeou conducted a videoconference with Stanford
University, hosted by former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice.
Japan Sharply Increased Scrambling Jets against Chinese
Planes (2013-04-17)
(Wall
Street Journal, By Yuka Hayashi) Japan's air force scrambled fighter jets
against Chinese aircraft a record number of times in the year ended in March,
the Self-Defense Forces announced.
China Asks to Postpone Japan, Korea Summit (2013-04-18)
(Wall
Street Journal) An annual summit meeting of leaders from China, Japan and South
Korea scheduled for May in Seoul will likely be postponed at China's request, a
South Korean government official said.
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Issues
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Su Warns of Growing Chinese Influence (2013-04-15)
(Taipei
Times) he DPP chairman said that China’s economic and cultural power is being
used to absorb Taiwan, saying it had used the same strategy in Hong
Kong.
Consensus Needed on Cross-Strait Offices: Tsai (2013-04-16)
(Taipei
Times) The government’s proposed establishment of representative offices on both
sides of the Taiwan Strait is highly political and definitely concerns
sovereignty, so the government should not proceed with it before a national
consensus is reached, former DPP chairperson Tsai Ing-wen
said.
DPP Must Change China Policy: Hsieh (2013-04-16)
(Taipei
Times) The DPP should adjust its China policy and ensure that it is accepted by
a majority of Taiwanese, as well as by Washington and Beijing if it is serious
about getting back in power, former premier Frank Hsieh
said.
Hsieh Promotes Constitution Idea to US Academics (2013-04-19)
(Taipei
Times) Former premier Frank Hsieh told US academics that his “constitutions with
different interpretations” initiative for achieving a consensus across the
Taiwan Strait is better than the so-called “1992
consensus.”
US Panel Praises Ma; Warns about China (2013-04-18)
(Taipei
Times, By William Lowther) A panel of top US experts on Taiwan has praised
President Ma Ying-jeou’s cross-strait policies, but warned that contingency
plans were needed in case China should suddenly turn
aggressive.
SEF, ARATS Finish First Round of Negotiations on Office
Exchange (2013-04-19)
(CNA)
SEF and ARATS already completed their first round of negotiations on issues
concerning exchange of offices, including the services and functions to be
offered by the offices, a top mainland affairs official confirmed.
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Rise and Its Domestic Issues
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Bold Remembrances for a Chinese Reformer (2013-04-15)
(China
Real Time Report) It was significant that Liberation Daily, Shanghai’s main
Party newspaper, ran two lengthy essays on Monday, each extolling Hu Yaobang as
a reformer, while another essay originally published on the website of the
Party-controlled China Youth Daily revisited political errors in the coverage of
his death.
The Rise of China's Reformers? (2013-04-17)
(Foreign
Affairs, By Evan A. Feigenbaum and Damien Ma) Bold reform in China is achievable
when three conditions are present: a crisis of political credibility at home,
vulnerability to an economic or financial crisis abroad, and a leadership savvy
enough to recognize the need for change.
China Vows Wider Yuan Movement (2013-04-17)
(Wall
Street Journal, By Natasha Brereton-Fukui) China's central bank plans to widen
the yuan's trading band in the near future, People's Bank of China Vice Governor
Yi Gang said, suggesting that China's leaders will press ahead with change
despite the surprise slowing of the economy.
Editor:
Dalton Lin
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