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Robert Gates urges deeper military ties with China

Thursday, 29 October 2009 07:13 Taipei Times

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates called for deeper military ties with Beijing, telling a top Chinese general on Tuesday that it was time to end a pattern of “on-again, off-again” relations.

In a meeting with General Xu Caihou (徐才厚), China’s second-ranking officer, Gates stressed the need to preserve a lasting dialogue between the US and Chinese militaries regardless of disputes or policy differences, Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said.

Presidential Office downplays report on gifts from CSC

Wednesday, 28 October 2009 06:58 Taipei Times

The Presidential Office yesterday downplayed allegations that President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) accepted gifts from Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Central Standing Committee (CSC) members, saying it would check whether any of the committee members gave Ma gifts.

Presidential Office Spokesman Wang Yu-chi (王郁琦) said the office established a system to manage gifts given to the president and vice president when they took office in May last year.

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Academics yesterday lashed out at the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government for what they called “a lack of concrete direction” in its policy on cross-strait relations.

At a conference held jointly by the Taiwan Competitiveness Forum think tank and the Chinese Integration Association, a pro-unificaton civic group, association chairman Chang Ya-chung (張亞中) said the government had failed to make clear where the nation is headed under its leadership.