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Taiwan needs boost in creativity, not more cuts in taxes

Taiwan News Editorial

Initially billed as a means to simulate industrial innovation and research and development, the draft Statute to Encourage Industrial Innovation has turned into yet another program to provide a "low cost" environment for Taiwan businesses with scant concern for the cultivation of long-term sustainable competitiveness based on high value added, robust product and service quality and creativity.

Initially approved by the rightist Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) Cabinet in May 2009, the draft bill was advertized as a means to promote research and development, innovation and manpower training and provide ways to solve the needs of business for capital and land.

Obama must act before it’s too late

Li Thian-hok 李天福

A crisis is gathering in the Taiwan Strait. Taiwan’s status as an independent democracy is being undermined daily as the momentum for its annexation by the People’s Republic of China inexorably gains strength. The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) is collaborating with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to implement the cultural and economic integration of Taiwan with China, aiming for the signing of a peace accord before the end of 2012. The fall of Taiwan would be a geostrategic disaster for the US and would most likely deprive US President Barack Obama of his chance for re-election in November 2012.

What the US president should tell Hu Jintao

Nat Bellocchi 白樂崎

On April 12 and 13, US President Barack Obama’s administration is convening a nuclear security summit in Washington. This is an important event with potential to make the world a safer place. Only days ago, it was announced that Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) would also attend the summit.

After the turnaround in China’s position — it had earlier indicated little interest in attending the summit with a high-level delegation — Obama had a lengthy telephone conversation with Hu. The call took place on April 1, when Obama’s plane had just landed at Andrews Air Force Base after a fundraising trip to New England.

Taipei Police Need to Realize They are not the Beijing Police

Jerome F. Keating Ph.D.

Anyone who has watched the antics of the Taipei police in the past year and a half would think that they are trying to imitate and/or curry favor with Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou. In that time, Ma has of course been trying to curry favor with the People's Republic of China (PRC). Whether Ma's efforts reflect a secret desire to unify Taiwan with the PRC or whether they are driven by his trying to salvage Taiwan's economy which began to sag right after Ma was elected is a different matter. Whatever the case, let us focus for now on the antics of the police as they have repeatedly abused Taiwan's citizen's rights to freedom of expression.

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