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Weekly Report from Taiwan Security Research (Jan. 18, 2009) For full text, click on the title or visit the TSR web page at taiwansecurity.org Presidential Office Employee
Arrested Over Possible Leak Taiwan to Keep Up China Talks Despite
Spy Case Empty Seats Show Glitches in
China-Taiwan Flights By Ralph
Jennings (Reuters, Jan. 15, 2009)
Planes are flying with many empty seats a month
after daily direct flights began between political
rivals China
Woos U.S. Ahead of Obama Inauguration U.S. Arms
Sales to Taiwan May Slow ‘New Era’ of Ties with China After US
Meltdown, the China Syndrome By Michael Sainsbury China
Flaunts Growing Naval Capabilities By Willy Lam China’s
Gulf of Aden Expedition and Maritime Cooperation in East Asia By Mingjiang Li (China Brief, Jamestown Foundation, Jan. 12, 2009) The Gulf of Aden
is a much less sensitive region for Chinese
Naval Force Protects Taiwanese Ship from Somalia Pirates (Bloomberg, Jan. 13, 2009) A Chinese naval task
force began escorting a Taiwanese merchant ship and three other vessels
in the Gulf of Aden in a mission to protect them from Somali pirates. Masked
Motives in China’s Anti-Piracy Push By Bright B. Simons Bush
Official Urges China to Lift Nuclear Secrecy A Closer
Look at Hu’s ‘Six Proposals’ By Yu Tsung-chi Ma Calls
on PRC to Remove Missiles Crises
Give Democracies the Edge By Sarah Cook Taiwan
Tops Freedom House Rights Survey Mentor
Urges Taiwan’s Ma to Ensure Trial Fairness MOFA
Plans Talks with US and EU on Piracy in Gulf WHA
Result Will Test Cross-Strait Policy: MOFA China
Aims to Silence Reform Call As China’s
Jobless Numbers Mount, Protests Grow Bolder By Ariana Eunjung
Cha (Washington Post, Jan. 13, 2009)
As a global recession takes hold and China's
economy continues to slow, growing legions of unemployed workers are
becoming increasingly bold in expressing their unhappiness. China’s
Income Gap Widens As Economy Slows News Media
Run by China Look Abroad for Growth By David Barboza (New York Times, Jan. 15, 2009) China’s
biggest state-controlled news organizations plan to spend billions of
dollars to expand overseas as part of a government effort to improve
the nation’s image abroad and to create respected international news
organizations. The
New Game in India Waters By James Holmes Anti-Piracy
Patrols Presage Rising Naval Powers By Brian Wilson and James Kraska (YaleGlobal, Jan. 14, 2009) The
nations of China and India, and the member states of the EU, now
join traditional maritime powers as naval forces with worldwide
reach. Whether this expansion of blue water capability will be a
positive force largely depends on the ability of this diverse group
to coordinate and share the increasingly crowded littorals. Obama
‘Panda-Huggers’ Stoke Japan’s Anxiety Over U.S. Relations By Bradley K. Martin and Sachiko Sakamaki (Bloomberg, Jan. 16, 2009) Paralyzed by a
political stalemate that has given it three prime ministers in two
years and enmeshed in the first recession since 2001, Japan is now
suffering from an attack of angst over what is widely perceived to
be the U.S.’s greater focus on China. |