Taiwan Tati Cultural and Educational Foundation

All Taiwan citizens who believe that they should have a voice on the future economic and political direction of our society should participate in tomorrow's "Let the People Decide" and "Oppose the One-China Market" rally in Taipei City tomorrow afternoon.

The march, organized by the opposition Democratic Progressive Party, will take place only three days before representatives of the Chinese Communist Party-ruled People's Republic of China and Taiwan's Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) government will sign a bitterly controversial "Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement."

Having returned recently from her first visit to Taiwan, US Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, commented that the US’ US$6.4 billion sale of military arms to Taiwan was “a mistake,” and reiterated her opposition to the sale. The comments came after a tour of the region that also took her to Beijing and Shanghai, and seem to indicate a shift in US-Taiwan relations. Feinstein is known in the US Senate for her pro-China leanings and is a key figure amongst US politicians who favor maintaining good ties with Beijing. Believing Sino-US relations to be very important to US interests, she has always been somewhat opposed to the idea of selling weapons to Taiwan.