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Taiwan's judiciary sees no reform from Ma

Taiwan News Editorial

President Ma Ying-jeou declared that "change had arrived" during a news conference held May 19 to mark the second anniversary of the inaugural of his Chinese Nationalist Party government.

However, change, at least for the better, has been noteworthy only for its absence in Taiwan's judiciary, the last line of defense for justice in our society, despite the high-profile prosecution of former president Chen Shui-bian on corruption charges.

World must act on South Korean ship sinking: Clinton

Taipei Times

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday the world must respond to the sinking of a South Korean warship that has been blamed on North Korea.

“This was an unacceptable provocation by North Korea, and the international community has a responsibility and a duty to respond,” Clinton said after talks with South Korean leaders.

It’s actually not just the economy, stupid

J. Michael Cole 寇謐將

As the saying goes, you stand where you sit. Not long ago, when Paul Wolfowitz was closer to defense than the corporatism he now embodies, he was instrumental in the drafting of alarming reports about the rise of the Chinese military and the threat that this represented to US security and, by extension, Taiwan.

Now that he is chairman of the US-Taiwan Business Council, however, Wolfowitz sings a different tune. This does not mean that his views on the Chinese military threat have softened, but his new role forces him to look at the same object from a different perspective. By doing so, he appears to have lost sight of the fact that China remains a threat, especially in the proximate environment of Taiwan.

Security lax at super-secret base

Taipei Times

Defense experts and officials in Taipei and Washington had mixed reactions to the embarrassing news, published on Monday by Defense News and Kyodo news agency, that security at a key signals intelligence facility in northern Taiwan was so lax that neighboring cows were observed walking freely around the base.

Located in Linkou (林口), Taipei County, Linyuan Base collects imagery and signals intelligence deep inside China and at sea.

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