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WikiLeaks unreleased cache of documents on Taiwan has Republic of China busy

Michael Richardson

As international uproar over the massive trove of secret and confidential United States diplomatic files released recently by WikiLeaks grows, officials within the Republic of China in-exile are hard at work. The ROC officials are worried that a large cache of unreleased WikiLeaks documents are going to upset the status quo.

Revelations about duplicity in high places is having substantial political fallout in a number of countries as daily headlines blare out new deceptions by government leaders. American relations with the People’s Republic of China and non-relations with the Republic of China are always a delicate balance in the “political purgatory” occupied by Taiwan.

Chen Shui-bian now prisoner No. 1020

Taipei Times

Former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) will now be identified by his personal identification number, 1020, as he began serving his prison sentence at Taipei Prison on Thursday after being convicted on corruption charges.

Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Chen Ting-fei (陳亭妃) visited Chen Shui-bian yesterday morning and said she was shocked when to see the former president with his head shaved in accordance with prison regulations for inmates.

Lee Kuan Yew warns on unification

Taipei Times

Senior US officials were allegedly told during a private meeting with Singaporean Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew (李光耀) that Beijing aims to bring Taiwan into its fold by forging greater economic links and that it did not matter if the process took one or even three decades.

Held in Singapore’s Presidential Palace in May last year, the meeting was attended by US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg and former US charge d’affaires Daniel Shields, according to reports of the confidential talks revealed as part of the recent cache of classified US Department of State cables released by whistleblower site WikiLeaks.

US Navy War College Professor Joins List of China Apologists, Why?

Jerome F. Keating Ph.D.

Anyone who deals with Chinese will sooner or later hear them mournfully bemoan their "Century of Humiliation" and the "Unequal Treaties of the Opium War." These are historical events long past; they date back more than a century ago. Yet you never hear Chinese complain about more current things that were more destructive and outweigh those events. Take for example the shame of how some 30 million Chinese died under Mao's failed programs or the humiliation of how the harmony of their society was ripped apart by the Cultural Revolution. You also don't hear serious concern over the SARS cover-up that endangered the world or any shame over things like the recent 100,000 plus Chinese that caught AIDS because government programs allowed multiple uses of needles. Why?

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