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Stand up to China, think tank urges

Taipei Times

The Taiwan Thinktank yesterday urged political parties to pay attention to China’s democratic development and refrain from falling into an “economic diplomacy” trap, which it said has replaced human rights with money power.

In a report published yesterday, the think tank said China has launched “global economic diplomacy” in the attempt to expand its global domination. It has increased its investment in the eurozone and hopes to salvage the European economy and has done the same in Africa in a bid to expand its influence on that continent.

US diplomat slams China for opposing visit to Taiwan

Taipei Times

American Institute in Taiwan Chairman Raymond Burghardt yesterday said Chinese pressure on Missouri Governor Jay Nixon to cancel a visit to Taiwan was “unacceptable” and inconsistent with Beijing’s claims it sought to improve ties with Taipei.

Nixon last month scrapped plans to visit Taiwan after a Chicago-based Chinese diplomat warned the trip could imperil a project by China to turn St Louis airport into a hub for Chinese cargo in the US.

Protesters rally against KKPTC plan

Taipei Times

Hundreds of people — mainly university students — last night staged a rally outside the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) to protest a petrochemical industrial park project proposed by Kuokuang Petrochemical Technology Co (KKPTC), ahead of an environmental impact assessment meeting to be held this morning.

Chanting slogans critical of the project, and urging the EPA to reject it, hundreds of students from universities across the country rallied outside the EPA despite the rain and the cool weather.

AIT reassures ROC that strategic ambiguity is still America’s Taiwan strategy

Michael Richardson

American Institute in Taiwan chair Raymond Burghardt made his tenth official trip to Taiwan to brief leadership of the Republic of China in-exile on Hu Jintao’s recent trip to Washignton, D.C.

Hu Jintao is the head of the People’s Republic of China and called Taiwan’s status an internal Chinese issue and part of the PRC’s “core interests” in a speech before business leaders.

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