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Taiwanhjørnet - Taiwan Corner
Daily updated News - read more here...
Updated on February 25. 2010
Thaw in the Taiwan strait?
Over the last 60 years Taiwan and China have experienced a tense relationship. Taiwan's massive investments in China over the last 20 years has not resulted in a cultural integration and not weaken China's claim to Taiwan - read the entire article here..
Democratic liberty is fundamental
Civil liberties are fundamental to democratic nations because they protect the rights and freedoms of its citizens and put limits on governments. Freedom House’s downgrading of Taiwan’s ranking in terms of civil liberties from 1 to 2 this year signals that the nation is going in the wrong direction, and it is worrisom -read the entire article here...
China's allergy reactions will continue
By Michael Danielsen, Chairman Taiwan Corner
China's allergy against any support for Taiwan keeps getting worse. As it is with allergy, it tends to be chronic and thus the best remedy is to stay away from what actually creates the allergy reaction. In the case of Taiwan, the best cure for China's allergy would be to set Taiwan free - read the whole article here...
Taiwan's Liberty Times Weekly interview with Michael Danielsen
Signing FTA with other countries can defend Taiwan’s sovereignty better
Michael Danielsen was interviewed by journalist Zou, Jing Wen from Liberty Times about the current Cross Strait relations, FTA with other countries and how to uphold Taiwan's soverignty. Read the interview here...
Young People Hit the Streets, Asking for a Job and Some Change
By Chieh-Ting Yeh, Former Co-President of the Harvard Asia Law Society and former Vice President of the Harvard Taiwanese Students Association
The people in Taiwan have witnessed much change throughout the years, but they are facing times of change yet again. The relationship with China sailed into uncharted waters as President Ma Ying-jeou rushes further economic integration with China, the United States seems to have swept Taiwan under the carpet, and no one really knows when the economy will boom as it once did.
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Open letter to Taiwan's president Ma
Taiwan Corner has decided to sign an open letter to Taiwan's President Ma again. We take this step out of anxiety of Taiwan's democracy and self-determination.
The letter has been published in Taipei Times and Liberty Times on November 13. 2009. You can read the letter here...
The answer from Taiwan's Goverment Information Office on November 18 can be read here...
Taiwan's opposition party, the DPP win the local election in Taiwan
This was DPP's biggest victory in 23 years. Also, DPP won the Ilan county back which DPP lost after the last local election. The government party KMT continues however to have 12 out of 17 counties, and the DPP gained one going to 4 from 3 counties.The rest goes to independents who also had a good election.
Nationwide KMT lost 4.5 percentage points compared the 2005 election and KMT is thus now only 2.5 procentage points ahead of the DPP. This is a significant change from 2005 where KMT was 9.2 percentage points ahead of DPP.
Taiwan Corner have collected a few articles about the election that can be read here...
Taiwan Corner in an interview about Cross Strait relations
Michael Danielsen from Taiwan Corner was interviewed among other observers about Cross Strait relations from a European perspective on November 16 2009. The article can be found here...
Taiwan and USA
The relationship between Taiwan and USA have had a great impact on Taiwan's international position after the 1945. Below you find a paper that will give you valuable insights into the dynamics between Taiwan and the US between 2004 and 2008.
You can read the paper here...
Taiwan's former president got life imprisonment on September 11. 2009
Taiwan's former president Chen has now received a life sentence for embezzlement of presidential funds and public funds from 2000 - 2008, and he has in addition been convicted of corruption and received 8 years for money laundering.
Taiwan Corner has previously publicly expressed concerns about Taiwan's legal system and the democratic development in Taiwan. Taiwan Corner remains concerned.
We have collected a series of news about the verdict which can be found here…
Deaf Olympics in Taiwan
Taiwan Corner gave a talk about Taiwan to the Danish Deaf Sports Association on June 26. 2009 in relation with the olympics in Taiwan this year.
The official song for the olympics can be found here here...
Interview with Liberty Times
Michael Danielsen was interviewed to Liberty Times in Taiwan. Read the whole interview here...
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