Fear in Taiwan as trade pact with China looms

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AFP, Sept. 13, 2009.
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/6027981/fear-in-taiwan-as-trade-pact-with-china-looms/

Note:
(a) Jimmy Wang 董事長王峰銘
(b) Kuanyin 桃園縣觀音鄉
(c) Hiland Ceramic Co. 昌達磁磚
www.hiland.com.tw


----------------Separately
(1)
(a) Peter Harmsen, Chen case testing Taiwan's democracy: analysts. AFP, Sept
. 12, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090913/wl_asia_afp/taiwanpoliticscorruptionchen_20090913024243
("Questions remain over whether his life sentence was a sign of a healthy
legal system in which everyone is equal before the law, or if it marked the
birth pangs of a banana republic with the courts reduced to tools in the
hands of the powerful. 'One may see a banana republic,' said Murray
Rubinstein, a Taiwan expert at Baruch College")

(b)
Ho Ai Li, Taiwanese divided over sentence. Stright Times (Singapore), Sept.
13, 2009.
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/world/37553-taiwanese-divided-over-sentence

Quote:

"Taiwan expert Bruce Jacobs from Australia’s Monash University was shocked
by the stiff sentence and believed that the case 'does reek of political
interference'. * * * Others point to the constant flow of unfavourable
information about the Chens, resulting in a trial by media.


(2) 莫拉克台风救灾行动牵动两岸关系. VOA Chinese, Sept. 12, 2009.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/2009-09-12-voa34.cfm
("台湾文化大学中山研究所教授蔡玮正在中国大陆参加一项有关两岸关系的研讨会。他
在接受美国之音访问时说，达赖喇嘛的访问，让中国深刻体会到台湾选举政治的残酷现
实，今后不能再一厢情愿的期待马英九来改善双方的关系。")

(3)
(a) Taiwan's export decline largest among four Asian dragons, DPA, Sept. 13,
2009.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/285414,taiwans-export-decline-largest-among-four-asian-dragons.html

(b) 上半年對中國大陸貿易總額減36.2％. 行政院主計處 DGBAS,
Sept. 11, 2009.
http://www.dgbas.gov.tw/public/Data/991116231271.pdf
("依據經濟部國貿局統計，今（98）年1-6 月我國對中國大陸（含香港轉
口）貿易總額362億美元，較上年同期減36.2％（第1 季減40.3％、第2
季減32.5％），其中出口260 億美元（減35.9％），進口102 億美元（減36.8％），進
出口相抵，出超158 億美元（減35.4％）。")


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