(2) Shih Hsiu-chuan, Taiwan to welcome high-ranking Obama official on Thursday. Taipei Times, Nov 29, 2011 (available now). http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/ ... 11/11/29/2003519495
("US Agency for International Development (USAID) administrator Rajiv Shah will visit Taipei on Thursday and Friday, the highest---ranking US government official from US President Barack Obama’s administration to visit Taiwan, the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) said yesterday. Shah is visiting Taiwan at the AIT’s invitation as part of his trip through Asia")
(3) Hao Hsueh-chin and Kendra Lin, Leading Japanese glass maker to build new factory in Taiwan. CNA, Nov 28, 2011 http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/W ... amp;ID=201111280021
(Ohara Optical Co., a major optical glass maker in Japan, to invest $13.2 million for a new factory in central Taiwan "since 40 percent of the world's digital cameras are made by Taiwan-based manufacturers")
My comment:
(a) the syudent/son: CHEN Shih-huai 陳 仕懷
his father: CHEN Chien-shun 陳 建順
(b) His family had not received any information from or about him since the Nov 13 phone call from him. They were anxious and contected Taiwan to locate him.
(c) China is a signatory to (United Nations) Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963 and by this treaty must notify Taiwan consulate in China and provides consular access to the detainee. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vie ... _Consular_Relations
"The overall value of Taiwan's agricultural exports to China in the first 10 months of the year totaled US$536 million, up 26 percent year-on-year, thanks to" ECFA.
"These programs helped Taiwan reduce its agricultural trade deficit with China from $280 million in 2007 to $130 in 2010