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MA: TWO YEARS IN OFFICE: Three-day ECFA sit-in protest starts

Taipei Times

Hundreds of protesters wearing green shirts gathered in Taipei yesterday to begin a three-day sit-in calling for a referendum on the government's proposal to sign a trade agreement with China.

Staged at the Jinan Road entrance to the legislature and surrounded by a light police presence, the crowd chanted slogans including “Give the people a voice” and “We want a referendum.”

Ma offers 'false gold' to trick Taiwan people

Taiwan News Editorial

President Ma Ying-jeou used the second anniversary of the return to power of his rightist Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) to try to persuade the 23 million Taiwan people to believe in a new vision of a "Golden Decade."

Ma clearly realizes that the greatest threat to his chances of winning a second four year term in the next presidential and national legislative polls in early 2012 is the fact that the majority of the Taiwan people have already realized that they were tricked in the March 2008 presidential polls by the KMT leader's "633" mirage.

MA: TWO YEARS IN OFFICE: Hard times ahead for US' Taiwan policy: academic

Taipei Times

Taiwan should prepare for the “possibility of a very difficult period ahead for US policy in the cross-strait area,” a Washington symposium heard on Tuesday.

Steven Goldstein, director of the Taiwan Studies Workshop at Harvard University, said he was “quite pessimistic” about the future.

Thinning the Herd Beijing Style: So Why Does Ma Keep Pushing Taiwan Towards Unification?

Jerome F. Keating Ph.D.

In the past few years, the international media has been filled with plenty of stories of how the Middle Kingdom of Pollution, Poison and Propaganda has sent out deadly products such as poisoned toothpaste, poisoned pet foods, poisoned toys rife with lead-based paint etc. etc. The world has been shocked, but not enough to give up the quest of the almighty dollar; thus it has chosen to ignore the facts on how Beijing thins the herd of humans around the world. Instead it has continued the mantra, "Buy China! Make a Profit." A bitter mantra and a bitter pill, especially if one thinks of all the collateral damage this causes.

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