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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04TAIPEI3043 |
TAIWAN FIGHTS AN UPHILL BATTLE TO CONTAIN HIV/AIDS [...] Summary. In response to reftel, AIT has assessed the scope and government response to the AIDS epidemic in Taiwan. The Government is committed at the highest levels to controlling its spread and based on the numbers, HIV/AIDS rates are still manageable. In close cooperation with NGOs, Taiwa [...] |
2004-10-01 07:26:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO OSCI OTRA SENV TW ESTH |
| 04TAIPEI3050 |
RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR CUBAN SUGAR ASSURANCES [...] In response to our letter to TECRO on August 12 requesting information on Taiwan's policy on purchase and re- export of Cuban sugar, we received the reply from the Board of Foreign Trade (BOFT). 2. Below is the text of BOFT response from Director General Huang Chih-peng. 3. Begin text. [...] |
2004-10-01 09:09:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD TW |
| 04TAIPEI3051 |
NEW INFO ON TAIWAN'S EXPORT CONTROLS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Following-up the AIT-BOFT meeting reported ref A, on October 1 BOFT faxed to AIT additional documents related to Taiwan's export control system and correspondence regarding the Ching Hwee International Trading Company. These documents have been relayed via fax to EAP/TC and a [...] |
2004-10-01 09:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KSTC PARM TW |
| 04TAIPEI3071 |
MEDIA REACTION: U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, [...] U.S. Presidential Election A) "The United States Needs to Re-organize Its Relations with [Its] Asian Allies" Lai I-chung, International Affairs Director of the Taiwan Think Tank, said in an op-ed in the centrist, pro-status quo "China Times" (10/1): "Judging by the strategic traits of t [...] |
2004-10-04 08:18:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3077 |
CSB PLANS MAJOR CROSS-STRAIT OVERTURE [...] (C) Summary: President Chen Shui-bian announced on October 3 that he will use his October 10 National Day address make a "major statement" on cross-Strait relations that will serve Taiwan's long-term security and normalize relations across the Taiwan Strait. Chen pledged to use the speech to r [...] |
2004-10-04 08:44:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3093 |
TAIWAN: TIME FOR TIFA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Taiwan's recent change in attitude towards making efforts to resolve long-standing bilateral trade concerns with the U.S. has led to real improvements in the environment for intellectual property protection, agricultural trade, telecommunications liberalization, and pharmaceutica [...] |
2004-10-05 09:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON KIPR EAGR ECPS PGOV IPR |
| 04TAIPEI3094 |
LATIN AMERICA: TAIWAN TAKES STOCK OF NEW POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: MOFA officials are nervous over a string of recent political transitions in Latin America. Over the last 13 months, 6 of these countries -- Panama El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Guatemala, and Paraguay -- have seen new governments come to power. Taiwan is adjusting [...] |
2004-10-05 23:34:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH TW |
| 04TAIPEI3095 |
TAOYUAN FTZ - UNREALISTIC CLAIMS OF PENDING DIRECT [...] (C) The Taoyuan Free Trade Zone near Taipei,s Chiang Kai-shek airport is a key component of Taiwan,s Global Logistics Development Plan (reftel). The Far Glory Group will build the FTZ under a build-operate-transfer (BOT) contract. Far Glory plans to invest NT$ 21.3 billion (USD 636 million) [...] |
2004-10-06 03:54:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR EWWT ECON PREL TW CH |
| 04TAIPEI3104 |
MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-06 09:17:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3110 |
END-OF-SHOW REPORT: NEW PRODUCTS USA 2004, [...] One hundred and fifty-nine American businesses received 555 trade leads as a result of their participation in New Products USA Multi-State Catalog Show in Kaohsiung on September 23 and 24, 2004. U.S. State participants were pleased with the high quality of the attendees as well as the event's [...] |
2004-10-06 09:21:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD TW |
| 04TAIPEI3114 |
DEMARCHE ON TAIWAN'S EXPORT CONTROLS [...] (C) Summary: AIT Econ delivered ref A talking points to BOFT on October 5, and to NSC on October 6. BOFT reported that on September 30, Taiwan Customs stopped two shipments of machine tools being shipped by Ching Hwee to "COSCO Logistics" in Dalian, China (across the bay from North Korea). N [...] |
2004-10-06 10:39:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KSTC PARM TW |
| 04TAIPEI3116 |
MAC APPOINTS CROSS-STRAIT NEOPHYTE AS VICE CHAIR [...] (C) Summary: The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) announced October 1 that Academia Sinica Research Fellow David Huang would assume the MAC vice chairman position previously held by Alexander Huang. A specialist in European local politics, David Huang has no experience in cross-Strait affairs, a [...] |
2004-10-07 03:40:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR CH TW |
| 04TAIPEI3129 |
MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-07 08:11:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3139 |
POLITICAL POSITIONING IMPACTING FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary: Internal political maneuvering for the 2008 presidential nomination is increasingly spilling over into the cross-Strait and foreign policy arenas. Premier Yu Shyi-kun's advocacy of a cross-Strait "balance of terror" is the latest in a string of unauthorized statements that inside [...] |
2004-10-07 10:03:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR CH TW |
| 04TAIPEI3140 |
DCI SPECIAL ADVISOR'S COMPREHENSIVE REPORT ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-07 10:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR TW |
| 04TAIPEI3141 |
LY PRESIDENT WANG ON SPECIAL BUDGET [...] (C) At a October 6 meeting at his reception house, Legislative Yuan (LY) President Wang Jin-pyng told AIT that, with the LY expected to recess in November in order to release its members for the December 11 election campaign, there is not enough time to debate the Chen administration's propose [...] |
2004-10-07 11:14:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
| 04TAIPEI3142 |
Taiwan's Semiannual BOP Surplus Soaring [...] Taiwan's balance of payments (BOP) surplus in the first half of 2004 doubled from a year ago to US$24 billion, increasing Taiwan's foreign exchange (FOREX) reserves to US$234.6 billion. While this sharp increase is unusual, it is not likely to continue, and does not presage financial problem [...] |
2004-10-08 00:34:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ECON TW |
| 04TAIPEI3143 |
Taiwan Economic Briefing for September 2004 [...] This cable summarizes selected recent economic events in Taiwan in September 2004. Below is a brief table of contents: Para 2 -- Taiwan's economic expansion began to slow in the third quarter of 2004, but strong exports of iron, steel and petrochemicals will sustain healthy GDP growth and [...] |
2004-10-08 00:35:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ECON TW |
| 04TAIPEI3145 |
TAIWAN'S NEW PACKAGING RULE: INDUSTRY WORKING ON [...] Summary. In July 2004, Taiwan's Environmental Protection Administration (TEPA) introduced a draft rule to limit excessive packaging. Foreign industry representatives are strongly opposed to the rule. As reported in reftel, AIT persuaded TEPA to postpone its implementation (originally schedu [...] |
2004-10-08 06:28:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SENV TW ESTH |
| 04TAIPEI3152 |
TAIWAN TO INVESTIGATE SIGHTINGS OF POSSIBLE HIGH [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-08 08:34:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS PREL PHSA SENV ESTH |
| 04TAIPEI3153 |
MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S ARMS PROCUREMENTS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-08 08:48:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3154 |
DEADLY ENTEROVIRUS STRAIN STRIKES U.S. CITIZEN IN [...] Summary. AIT/T in cooperation with AIT/K has been following the incidence of the infectious disease enterovirus, which has thus far claimed 4 lives in Taiwan this year. While this year, the disease appears less prevalent than in some recent years past, it has caught AIT's attention as one o [...] |
2004-10-08 08:49:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC TBIO OSCI OTRA SENV TW ESTH |
| 04TAIPEI3162 |
CHEN 10/10 SPEECH OFFERS CONCILIATORY MESSAGE [...] (C) Summary: President Chen Shui-bian used his October 10 National Day speech to send conciliatory messages to Beijing and opposition supporters in Taiwan. Chen reiterated a number of cross-Strait related themes from his May 20 inaugural address and proposed restarting dialogue with Beijing " [...] |
2004-10-10 07:39:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3186 |
TITAS 2004 Focuses on Facing 2005: [...] Summary. The Taipei International Textile & Apparel Show 2004 (TITAS 2004) kicked off on September 21. 280 domestic/foreign companies participated in the three-day event. Aside from the exhibition, 13 seminars by various agencies including the American Apparel Producers' Network (AAPN), Joc [...] |
2004-10-13 08:50:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KTEX TW |
| 04TAIPEI3190 |
TAIWAN PUTS POSITIVE SPIN ON PRC REJECTION OF [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan officials tried to put a positive spin on the PRC Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) reported rejection of President Chen Shui-bian's October 10 inaugural address. National Security Council (NSC) and Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) officials say that TAO Spokesman Zhang Mingqing's [...] |
2004-10-13 09:00:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH TW |
| 04TAIPEI3198 |
TAIWAN SEIZES COUNTERFEIT PHARMACEUTICALS [...] SUMMARY: LOCAL PRESS REPORTED ON OCTOBER 2 THAT THE TAICHUNG PROSECUTORS' OFFICE RAIDED NINE DIFFERENT LOCATIONS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN TAIWAN, SEIZING OVER 2.5 MILLION COUNTERFEIT DRUG PILLS, INCLUDING VIAGRA, REDUCTIL, AND STILNOX, AND ARRESTING FOUR SUSPECTS, INCLUDING ONE LICENSED PHAR [...] |
2004-10-14 05:00:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ECON ETRD TW |
| 04TAIPEI3206 |
MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN'S NATIONAL DAY [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-14 08:28:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3224 |
MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS, [...] U.S.-China-Taiwan Relations "The Remarks about Coming to Help Defend Taiwan in 12 Days" The centrist, pro-status quo "China Times" said in an editorial (10/14): "Legislator Lee Wen-chung said a high-ranking U.S. defense official has given him a guarantee that so long as Taiwan buys def [...] |
2004-10-15 08:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3229 |
LY PRESIDENT WANG ON ELECTION POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: Legislative Yuan (LY) President Wang Jin-pyng told AIT that he expects the Pan-Blue to maintain its LY majority despite the PFP's declining popularity. Wang projected that there would be virtually no change in the balance between the two camps from the 2001 election. Wang downpl [...] |
2004-10-15 10:22:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
| 04TAIPEI3231 |
FUGITIVE COUNTY MAGISTRATE STILL MISSING [...] (C) Summary: Yunlin County Magistrate Chang Jung-Wei disappeared on August 14, shortly after questions were raised about his involvement in a local bribery scandal. He was later declared a fugitive after ignoring repeated summonses from prosecutors. Chang claims he is the victim of a vendett [...] |
2004-10-17 23:49:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
| 04TAIPEI3232 |
OFFSHORE TAIWAN EARTHQUAKE: NO SERIOUS DAMAGE [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-17 23:52:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPL TPHY SENV ECON TW ESTH |
| 04TAIPEI3233 |
MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN'S NATIONAL DAY [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-18 08:44:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3234 |
LY CAMPAIGN ATMOSPHERICS: DPP UPBEAT [...] (C) Summary: Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) officials are cautiously optimistic the Pan-Green camp will secure a narrow majority in the December 11 Legislative Yuan (LY) election. The DPP's campaign strategy is focused on sowing discord within the opposition alliance and enforcing discipl [...] |
2004-10-18 08:44:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
| 04TAIPEI3235 |
Taiwan Economy Slows in Third Quarter [...] Taiwan's export and industrial production growth slowed in the third quarter, but economists still expect real GDP growth of nearly 6 percent this year, and above 4.5 percent next year. Overall, the economy should be a positive factor for the ruling party in the December legislative elections [...] |
2004-10-18 08:45:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ECON TW |
| 04TAIPEI3242 |
TAIWAN'S EPA NARROWS SCOPE OF DRAFT PACKAGING [...] Summary. In July 2004, Taiwan's Environmental Protection Administration (TEPA) introduced a draft rule to limit excessive packaging. In response to industry opposition to the rule, TEPA issued a second revised draft of the rule on October 12. The second draft is much narrower in scope than t [...] |
2004-10-19 08:47:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SENV TW ESTH |
| 04TAIPEI3251 |
SUSPECT HIGH SEAS DRIFTNET VESSELS NOT TAIWAN [...] Fisheries Agency Deputy Director-General James Sha has provided AIT with a written response to the questions posed in Ref B regarding suspected high seas driftnet fishing vessels in the North Pacific. Mr. Sha indicates that none of the vessels listed in Reftels are Taiwan-flagged, but did pr [...] |
2004-10-19 08:49:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS PREL PHSA SENV TW ESTH |
| 04TAIPEI3259 |
MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ELECTION; TAIWAN ARMS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-19 08:51:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3263 |
RUNWAY ACCIDENT CLOSES TAIPEI'S SUNGSHAN AIRPORT [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-19 08:57:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON TW |
| 04TAIPEI3264 |
"STOP!" DEMARCHE DELIVERED, TAIWAN LOBBIES ON [...] Econoff delivered ref demarche to the Deputy Director General of the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO), Jack Lu. Lu and his staff had just returned from training in Washington with USPTO and had already been extensively briefed on the STOP! initiative. Lu expressed Taiwan's willing [...] |
2004-10-19 08:57:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR KPAO ECON ETRD TW |
| 04TAIPEI3265 |
PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE RESPONDS TO PRC SUSPICIONS [...] (C) Summary: Presidential Office Deputy Secretary General James Huang requested a meeting with the Deputy Director October 19 to clarify concerns raised by Beijing over President Chen Shui-bian's October 10 speech. Huang, at the president's instructions, explained that Chen's statement that " [...] |
2004-10-19 10:55:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH TW |
| 04TAIPEI3268 |
TAIWAN INVESTIGATES GEORGIAN FLAGGED HIGH SEAS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-20 06:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS KTIA AORC EWWT GG PHSA PREL SENV |
| 04TAIPEI3294 |
LY ELECTION PREVIEW: SOUTH CENTRAL TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary: Yunlin is shaping up to be a battleground county in the December legislative elections. With eighteen candidates vying for six seats, both Pan-Blue and Pan-Green have nominated aggressively in the hopes of gaining territory. Furthermore, KMT County Magistrate Chang Jung-Wei's di [...] |
2004-10-21 07:18:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3298 |
LY ELECTION CAMPAIGN KICKS OFF [...] (C) Summary: Candidate registration for the December 11 Legislative Yuan (LY) election campaign closed October 12 and the campaign season has begun. Neither camp is expecting any dramatic swings in the current LY balance, but most observers expect the Pan-Blue to lose its current slim majority [...] |
2004-10-21 08:55:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
| 04TAIPEI3299 |
THE KMT'S LY ELECTION NON-STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary: With just over a month to go before the December 11 Legislative Yuan (LY) election, the KMT is close to abandoning efforts to formulate a coherent, coordinated strategy for retaining its current LY majority. The KMT failed to enforce discipline during the nomination process, and [...] |
2004-10-21 09:08:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
| 04TAIPEI3309 |
MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY POWELL'S BEIJING [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-21 23:21:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3322 |
MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-22 08:50:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3323 |
CROSS-STRAIT ECONOMIC ROUNDUP - THIRD QUARTER [...] During the third quarter of 2004, the PRC legalized tourism to Kinmen and Matsu for all Fujian residents. Taiwan legalized 81 product categories for import from the PRC. However, most are agricultural goods that will still be restricted for lack of cross-Strait sanitary and inspection agreem [...] |
2004-10-22 09:30:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PREL ETRD EINV EWWT CH TW |
| 04TAIPEI3325 |
DEMARCHE ON WHO INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS [...] (C) Summary: AIT Econ Chief delivered reftel talking points to MOFA Department of International Organizations (DIO) and the Taiwan Center for Disease Control (CDC) on October 21. DIO provided additional detail about its proposal to add language to Article 65 of the draft International Health [...] |
2004-10-25 00:27:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PREL TBIO TW ESTH |
| 04TAIPEI3332 |
MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY POWELL'S VISIT TO [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-27 00:31:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3340 |
ANATOMY OF A TAIWANESE LY ELECTION [...] (U) Summary: Individual and party strategies for the December 11 Legislative Yuan (LY) election will be shaped in large part by Taiwan's complex election system, which combines direct elections with proportional representation. The structures of both the direct and proportional elections promo [...] |
2004-10-27 07:42:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3341 |
NEW CDC DIRECTOR TALKS ABOUT POST-SARS TAIWAN [...] (SBU) While delivering reftel demarche to the Taiwan Center for Disease Control on October 21, AIT became acquainted with the CDC's new director, Steve H.S. Kuo. Kuo introduced himself, saying that he just assumed his new position on October 18, after working in Washington for four years as t [...] |
2004-10-27 07:42:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OSCI OTRA SENV TBIO TW ESTH |
| 04TAIPEI3343 |
CHEN SURPRISES HEWLETT-PACKARD CHAIRMAN ON [...] (C) In what Hewlett-Packard (HP) Taiwan has described privately as an &ambush,8 President Chen publicly called on visiting HP chairman Carly Fiorina to promote cross-Strait direct charter flights with Beijing. HP responded by publicly declining any role in dealing with political matters such [...] |
2004-10-27 07:42:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAIR PREL CH TW |
| 04TAIPEI3347 |
KAOHSIUNG PROTESTS SECRETARY POWELL'S REMARKS [...] (SBU) A candidate in Taiwan's upcoming Legislative Yuan (LY) elections led a group of around 20 supporters to protest in front of AIT Kaohsiung the morning of October 27. The protest was noisy, but peaceful, and dispersed within half an hour, after a letter of protest was read out for televis [...] |
2004-10-27 08:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL TW CH |
| 04TAIPEI3353 |
FOREIGN MINISTER ASKS FOR CLARIFICATION OF [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Mark Chen asked the AIT Director to a meeting October 26 to seek clarification over a set of interviews given by Secretary Powell in Beijing on October 24. Chen said the Secretary's reported statements on eventual reunification and Taiwan's lack of sovereignty de [...] |
2004-10-27 08:17:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3354 |
MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY POWELL'S VISIT TO [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-27 08:28:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3360 |
TAIWAN: LATE-SEASON TYPHOON STRIKES TAIWAN [...] Summary. Typhoon Nock-ten struck Taiwan's northeast on October 25. Nock-ten moved more swiftly than July's Typhoon Mindulle and August's Aere and caused less damage. Nevertheless, four people were killed, one remains missing, and more than 100 were injured. Taipei was one of the hardest hit [...] |
2004-10-28 04:19:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT SENV ECON KSCA KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3367 |
MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY POWELL'S BEIJING [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-28 23:31:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3389 |
MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY POWELL'S BEIJING [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-29 07:19:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3402 |
A FRIGHTENING PROSPECT: PRC INFANTS ADOPTED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On 23 October, AIT Taipei received the referenced e-mail regarding the possibility of the Frank Foundation, a US-based international adoption organization facilitating the adoption of the infant children of illegal PRC mothers currently in immigration detention in Taiwan. Based [...] |
2004-10-29 07:45:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM CASC SMIG ASEC KFRD ELAB KCRM PREF TW |
| 04TAIPEI3406 |
CROSS-STRAIT SHIPPING - INEXPENSIVE, NOT [...] (U) Businesses on both sides of the Taiwan Strait look forward to the possibility of direct marine cargo links between the Mainland and Taiwan. However, they have also been very resourceful at taking advantage of small openings and the flexibility of Taiwan, PRC and other authorities to ship [...] |
2004-10-29 07:49:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT ECON ETRD PREL CH TW |
| 04TAIPEI3409 |
TAIPEI SEEKS TO LIMIT FALLOUT OVER SECRETARY'S [...] (C) Summary: Chen administration officials are working to limit media and political fallout from a set of interviews given by Secretary Powell in Beijing on October 24. President Chen Shui-bian expressed appreciation to the AIT Director on October 28 for a series of public statements by the Se [...] |
2004-10-29 10:08:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH TW |
| 04TAIPEI3410 |
PFP CLAIMS IT IS STILL IN THE GAME [...] (C) Summary: A confidante of People First Party (PFP) leader James Soong told AIT that the party has emerged from an early October KMT attempt at a hostile merger with renewed vigor. PFP Spokesman Daniel Hwang admitted that the party was close to collapse in the final days of the registration [...] |
2004-10-29 10:23:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
| 04TAIPEI3414 |
LY ELECTION PREVIEW: NORTH EASTERN TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary: Keelung and Ilan counties, while at odds politically, both look to be equally predictable in the December legislative Yuan (LY) elections. Keelung is about 60 percent Pan-Blue and has five candidates vying for three seats. There are only four candidates running for three seats [...] |
2004-11-01 01:02:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3430 |
MOFA ON THE DEFENSIVE OVER CENTRAL AMERICA AID [...] (C) Summary. Taiwan officials are on the defensive in the wake of press allegations that MOFA funneled US$1.4 million to former Costa Rican president Miguel Angel Rodriguez. MOFA officials claim only $400,000 was given to Costa Rica for training programs and that Rodriguez apparently misuse [...] |
2004-11-01 07:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID TW |
| 04TAIPEI3444 |
Problem Bank for Sale [...] Summary. Taiwan authorities will auction off another problem bank currently in receivership at the beginning of December, part of their on-going effort to reduce the number of banks and thereby improve the health of Taiwan's financial sector. However, creditor banks will not receive payment [...] |
2004-11-02 00:13:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ECON TW |
| 04TAIPEI3445 |
MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY POWELL'S BEIJING [...] Secretary Powell's Beijing Trip and U.S. Policy A) "President Chen Once Said He Would Make the United States Happy and Give Beijing No Excuse [to Attack Taiwan]" The centrist, pro-status quo "China Times" editorialized (10/31): ". Judged from whichever perspective, Secretary Powell's r [...] |
2004-11-02 00:14:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3449 |
MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY POWELL'S BEIJING [...] No summary [...] |
2004-11-02 06:56:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3464 |
TAIWAN - TFT-LCDS, NOT THE NEXT SEMICONDUCTORS [...] (U) TFT-LCD (thin-film transistor liquid crystal display) manufacturing is a key industry in Taiwan with high expectations for future expansion. TFT-LCDs and other flat-panel displays, which are used in all laptop computers, most desktop monitors and increasingly in televisions, earned USD 1 [...] |
2004-11-03 07:37:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EIND ETRD TW |
| 04TAIPEI3465 |
CHINESE TAIPEI'S APEC AGENDA: LOW-KEY MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary: Academia Sinica President Lee Yuan-tseh will once again represent Chinese Taipei at the APEC Leaders' Meeting in November in Santiago, Chile. Academia Sinica's Michael Hsiao and National Security Council's Connie Yang believe the Chinese Taipei delegation will try to avoid any [...] |
2004-11-03 08:55:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3466 |
LY ELECTION PREVIEW: WEST CENTRAL TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary: Changhua County (ten seats) and Taichung City (eight seats) are likely to be major battlegrounds in the struggle for control of the Legislative Yuan (LY) in this December's elections. Both districts have traditionally been strongholds for the Pan-Blue, but weakness in the Pan-Blue [...] |
2004-11-03 09:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3483 |
BOFT PROVIDES MORE INFO ON EXPORT CONTROLS [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan,s Board of Foreign Trade (BOFT) officials relayed to AIT on November 1 new information that shows the Ching Hwee Company (which we discussed earlier with Taiwan, see ref B) has played a dominant role in Taiwan's machinery exports to North Korea. BOFT investigations (per re [...] |
2004-11-04 05:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KSTC PARM TW |
| 04TAIPEI3488 |
MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ELECTIONS AND U.S. [...] U.S. Elections and U.S. Policy A) "Bush Gets Re-elected with a Narrow Margin, But the Price He Pays Is the United States' Unity and Democratic Image" The conservative, pro-unification "United Daily News" commented in an editorial (11/4): "Over the past four years, [U.S. President George [...] |
2004-11-04 07:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3494 |
HIGH COURT DISMISSES MARCH 20 ELECTION CASE [...] (C) Summary: The Taiwan High Court rejected a case filed by opposition leaders Lien Chan and James Soong to overturn the March 20 election. The court announced that the opposition failed to support its claims that President Chen Shui-bian won the election through illegal means. Opposition la [...] |
2004-11-04 09:51:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3495 |
TAIWAN MINISTER OF FINANCE ON GOVERNMENT DEFICIT [...] (SBU) Summary: Finance Minister Lin Chuan discussed financial reform, taxation, and public finance during a courtesy call by AIT/T/DDIR Keegan and EAP/TC/DD Levy on October 28. Lin said that the government budget deficit was the most time-consuming of his responsibilities. He asked if ther [...] |
2004-11-04 23:51:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ECON TW |
| 04TAIPEI3505 |
MEDIA REACTION: BUSH RE-ELECTION [...] No summary [...] |
2004-11-05 07:42:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3509 |
TAIWAN RESPONSE TO TEXTILE TRANSSHIPMENT MOU [...] This is an Action Request. Please see Para 8. 2. Summary: AIT/T delivered reftel demarche to Taiwan's Board of Foreign Trade (BOFT) Import/Export Director Peter Ho November 5. Ho was accompanied by several staff and representatives from the Taiwan Textile Federation (TTF). Ho protested [...] |
2004-11-05 09:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EIND KTEX TW |
| 04TAIPEI3517 |
MEDIA REACTION: NEW BUSH ADMINISTRATION; IRAQ [...] No summary [...] |
2004-11-08 07:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3521 |
CHEN SHUI-BIAN MAKES PROVOCATIVE OFF-THE-CUFF [...] (C) Summary: During an open-press November 7 speech to a group of pro-independence university professors, President Chen Shui-bian emphasized Taiwan as a "sovereign and independent country" and asserted that Taiwan's current constitution was "made in China, for China" and was not appropriate f [...] |
2004-11-08 10:21:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | SECRET | PREL PGOV CH TW |
| 04TAIPEI3522 |
TAIWAN CONFIDENT OVER VANUATU SWITCH [...] (C) Summary. MOFA officials say they are certain that the Vanuatu government will formalize the switch in recognition from Beijing to Taipei announced by Prime Minister Serge Vohor and Foreign Minister Mark Chen on November 3 in Taipei. Taiwan officials acknowledge that Vohor's decision doe [...] |
2004-11-08 22:20:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID TW CH NH |
| 04TAIPEI3523 |
CROSS-STRAIT CHARTER FLIGHTS - AIRLINES [...] (C) Largely for symbolic reasons, the Taiwan government is pushing once again for cross-Strait charter flights to bring Taiwan investors in the Mainland home to Taiwan for Lunar New Year 2005. After losing money in 2003 and never getting off the ground in 2004, Lunar New Year charter flights [...] |
2004-11-09 01:33:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR PREL ECON CH TW |
| 04TAIPEI3531 |
MEDIA REACTION: NEW BUSH ADMINISTRATION AND [...] No summary [...] |
2004-11-09 08:03:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3537 |
CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF SHARKS, SEABIRDS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-11-10 01:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS PHSA SENV AORC ESTH |
| 04TAIPEI3551 |
MEDIA REACTION: BUSH-HU APEC MEETING AND U.S. [...] No summary [...] |
2004-11-10 07:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3562 |
LY ELECTION PREVIEW: A TIGHT RACE IN TAIPEI COUNTY [...] (C) Summary: Taipei County, with its 28 seats (one more than last election), will be the site of fierce fighting in the election battle for a majority in the Legislative Yuan this December. The Pan-Blue parties have shown remarkable restraint in coordinating their nominations, resulting in a [...] |
2004-11-10 09:15:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3563 |
PRESIDENT OUTLINES FUTURE CROSS-STRAIT POLICY [...] (C) Summary: National Security Council (NSC) Secretary General Chiou I-jen provided the Acting Director on November 10 an advanced copy of a 10-point policy statement President Chen Shui-bian planned to unveil later in the day. The policy reiterates themes from Chen's May 20 and October 10 sp [...] |
2004-11-10 09:58:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR CH TW |
| 04TAIPEI3578 |
MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-11-12 05:58:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3584 |
PFP ADVISOR BREAKS RANK, JOINS DPP CROSS-STRAIT [...] (C) Summary: Former PFP International Affairs Director Raymond Wu told AIT that he intends to join President Chen Shui-bian's inter-party Cross-Strait Peace and Stability Committee after it is set up in early 2005. Wu said he would join the committee even if his political mentor James Soong o [...] |
2004-11-12 08:22:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
| 04TAIPEI3604 |
SOVEREIGNTY ISSUES PROMINENT IN LY CAMPAIGN [...] (C) Summary: Both political camps are using national sovereignty and foreign policy issues to mobilize core supporters ahead of the December 11 Legislative Yuan (LY) elections. In his first weekend of campaigning, President Chen Shui-bian played all sides of the ideological spectrum, defendin [...] |
2004-11-15 08:33:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3605 |
CROSS-STRAIT ENTRY PERMITS - REDUCING TAIWAN'S [...] (U) Summary: A persistent complaint of multinational firms in Taiwan is the difficulty of bringing PRC employees to Taiwan for meetings, training, research, or other temporary assignment. Some firms have learned how to work the system and bring a relatively large number of Mainland employees [...] |
2004-11-15 08:35:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ELAB CH TW |
| 04TAIPEI3608 |
MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-11-15 23:03:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3616 |
US COMPANIES RESPOND FAVORABLY TO TAIWAN EPA'S NEW [...] Summary. In July 2004, Taiwan's Environmental Protection Administration (TEPA) introduced a draft rule to limit excessive packaging. In response to industry opposition to the rule, TEPA issued a revised draft of the rule on October 12. As reported in ref A, the second draft is much narrower [...] |
2004-11-16 08:54:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KTDB SENV TW ESTH |
| 04TAIPEI3644 |
MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-11-16 09:00:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3647 |
A DPP PERSPECTIVE ON TAIWAN ETHNIC POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) believes it could benefit in the December legislative election from its efforts to define and build a Taiwan identity that is "multi-cultural," and it aims to broaden the appeal of the DPP beyond its traditional ethnic Taiwanese base of suppo [...] |
2004-11-17 00:51:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3651 |
TWO VIEWS OF TAIWAN'S MEDIA AND THEIR POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary. A recent report authored by the KMT's National Policy Foundation (NPF) alleges that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), via the Government Information Office (GIO), is manipulating Taiwan's media and suppressing negative press reporting through its authority to regulate the m [...] |
2004-11-17 06:22:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON TW |
| 04TAIPEI3663 |
Taiwan Economic Review for October 2004 [...] This cable summarizes selected economic events in Taiwan in October 2004. Below is a table of contents: - China's Interest Rate Hike - Central Government Budget - China Airlines Privatization - Cross-Strait Economic Normalization - Problem Financial Institutions Effect of China [...] |
2004-11-17 07:05:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ECON TW |
| 04TAIPEI3666 |
ICDF: TAIWAN'S USAID [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan's International Cooperation and Development Fund (ICDF) is one of the foreign policy tools used to advance Taiwan's standing with nations that recognize Taipei. Taiwan publicly parades the ICDF as a global humanitarian organization which seeks to combat poverty and provid [...] |
2004-11-17 07:18:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID TW |
| 04TAIPEI3667 |
BEIJING ACCELERATING GLOBAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST [...] (C) Summary. Taiwan officials say Beijing is effectively leveraging its growing international clout to orchestrate a global campaign to isolate Taipei. Officials assert that Beijing's recent efforts have become increasingly coordinated, organized, and creative. Taiwan MOFA officials maintai [...] |
2004-11-17 07:22:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON TW |
| 04TAIPEI3668 |
MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY POWELL'S RESIGNATION [...] No summary [...] |
2004-11-17 23:37:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3671 |
TAIWAN NGOS PLAN TO ATTEND FAO SEA TURTLE [...] In response to Reftel, AIT ESTOFF discussed sea turtle points with Fisheries Administration Senior Specialist Huang Hong-yen on November 15. Huang informed AIT that he will represent the Taiwan NGO FDCI (Fisheries Development Council International) as an observer at the meeting. He further i [...] |
2004-11-18 00:23:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS SENV PHSA TW ESTH |
| 04TAIPEI3675 |
2004 AIT-TECRO JSCCNC - SIDE MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary. AIT and TECRO held bilateral discussions on the margins of the 20th annual Joint Standing Committee on Civil Nuclear Cooperation in Seattle (JSCCNC) (Nov 4-5). The two sides discussed: UN Security Council resolution 1540, environmental samplings from the 1980s, the International [...] |
2004-11-18 03:48:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP TRGY ENRG TW |
| 04TAIPEI3677 |
LY ELECTION PREVIEW: MIAOLI COUNTY [...] (C) Summary: Miaoli County (four seats), with its large Hakka population, has been a long-time Pan-Blue stronghold. Hoping to keep it that way, the Pan-Blue has nominated its three incumbents, and will run a campaign in which ethnic politics (likely masquerading as "local roots") will feature [...] |
2004-11-18 07:02:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3690 |
TAIWAN SPECIAL 301 OCR: AIT VIEWS [...] (SBU)Summary: Taiwan authorities charged with protecting Intellectual Property Rights have made substantial progress since the last review in March 2004. AIT recommends reducing Taiwan's current Special 301 classification from the Priority Watch List to the Watch List. Further reductions mig [...] |
2004-11-18 08:02:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR TW IPR |
| 04TAIPEI3707 |
TAIWAN'S CULTURAL CRISIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent conversations with Taiwan artists and academics have revealed their growing concern that the ruling DPP's political drive to create a new national identity has created a battleground in the arenas of art and education. Artists and officials alike lament the fact that culture [...] |
2004-11-19 07:05:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO PGOV PREL SOCI TW |
| 04TAIPEI3708 |
MEDIA REACTION: RICE NOMINATION AND [...] No summary [...] |
2004-11-19 07:28:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3712 |
LY ELECTION PREVIEW: TAOYUAN COUNTY [...] (C) Summary: Taoyuan County, with thirteen seats, is the largest Legislative Yuan (LY) election district in Taiwan. As in other northern districts, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has taken an aggressive nominating strategy and at a minimum hopes to parlay its strong showing during the [...] |
2004-11-19 08:40:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3723 |
LY ELECTION UPDATE: THE PLOT THICKENS IN YUNLIN [...] (C) Summary: Hotly contested Yunlin County (six seats) remains one of the most volatile races in the LY campaign. The fugitive Magistrate Chang Jung-wei is still missing, but he and his criminal case remain the focus of the election. Bitter infighting has broken out as candidates realize each [...] |
2004-11-22 06:32:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3728 |
TAIWAN MULLING OVER THERMISTOR CLASSIFICATION [...] Summary: AIT Econ Chief delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Economic Affairs Vice Minister Steve Chen on November 17, 2004. Chen was familiar with the case and said that Taiwan has about a month before it would need to submit a report to the World Customs Organization. Apparently, Tai [...] |
2004-11-22 07:36:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EIND |
| 04TAIPEI3730 |
MEDIA REACTION: BUSH-HU MEETING AT APEC, RICE [...] Bush-Hu Meeting at APEC A) "The United States Casts a Curse on the Futures of Both Sides of the Taiwan Strait" The centrist, pro-status quo "China Times" editorialized (11/22): ". It seems inevitable for Washington to describe [its `consistent'] position regarding the cross-Strait situ [...] |
2004-11-22 23:16:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3734 |
Scenesetter for DOT A/S Bhatia's Trip to Taiwan [...] (U) The United States' unofficial relations with Taiwan focus on regional security and trade. Taiwan is considering the purchase of USD 18 billion in military equipment from the U.S. Outstanding trade issues include intellectual property rights, pharmaceuticals and telecommunications market [...] |
2004-11-23 06:14:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL EAIR PGOV OVIP TW |
| 04TAIPEI3738 |
TAIWAN CURRENCY APPRECIATION [...] (C) Summary: On November 22, Taiwan's Central Bank of China (CBC) intervened in foreign exchange markets to slow the ongoing appreciation of the New Taiwan Dollar (NTD) after the currency reached its highest levels in almost four years. Speculators are moving additional foreign capital to Ta [...] |
2004-11-23 07:30:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EINV ECON TW |
| 04TAIPEI3740 |
TAIWAN PESSIMISTIC ABOUT EU ARMS EMBARGO [...] (C) Summary. Taiwan officials say that there is little they can do to prevent the eventual lifting of the EU arms embargo against the PRC. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) officials are confident that the embargo will not be lifted this year, but they expect Beijing to offer some sort of co [...] |
2004-11-23 07:38:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON TW |
| 04TAIPEI3742 |
JAPAN POLICY AT A CROSSROADS [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan officials say they are willing to be patient with the glacial pace of development in formal relations with Japan because they need time to resolve a deep internal policy division over how to manage the relationship. The policy debate is driven by sharply divergent assessmen [...] |
2004-11-23 08:11:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV JA CH TW |
| 04TAIPEI3743 |
LIEN, CHEN EXCHANGE RHETORIC OVER REFERENDUM [...] No summary [...] |
2004-11-23 08:52:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3748 |
LUKEWARM RESPONSE FOR TAIWAN FIXED NETWORK LICENSES [...] (U) According to the Directorate General of Telecommunications (DGT), applications for fixed network licenses closed October 28, 2004. DGT received no applications for comprehensive network service and only one for the local and long-distance land cable leased-circuit business from a cable t [...] |
2004-11-24 03:19:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON TW |
| 04TAIPEI3768 |
TAIWAN TIFA DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Summary: AIT/T delivered reftel demarche on TIFA talks to Ministry of Economic Affairs Vice Minister Chen on November 24. Chen was aware of the content of the demarche and understood the need to avoid characterizing the talks as discussions on an FTA. Chen recognized the U.S. desire [...] |
2004-11-26 05:50:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD TW |
| 04TAIPEI3770 |
LY ELECTION PREVIEW: TAICHUNG COUNTY [...] (C) Summary: Spurred by Chen Shui-bian's 30,000-margin victory in Taichung County during the 2004 presidential election, the DPP expects to elect five of its six LY nominees there this December, up from the four seats it won in 2001. The KMT nominated its four incumbents and one newcomer, wi [...] |
2004-11-29 00:38:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
| 04TAIPEI3771 |
LY ELECTION OVERVIEW: THE POLLSTERS WEIGH IN [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan's top polling centers are predicting a close election race between the Pan-Green and Pan-Blue camps for control of the Legislative Yuan (LY), with neither side currently expected to gain a majority. While pollsters agree that a majority for either side is unlikely, their es [...] |
2004-11-29 00:38:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3779 |
LY ELECTION AT THE TWO-WEEK MARK [...] (C) Summary: The campaign for the December 11 Legislative Yuan (LY) election is entering its final phase with neither camp assured a majority of seats. On balance, campaign officials and observers project that the Pan-Green will win a plurality, leaving it within reach of a majority with the [...] |
2004-11-29 08:32:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3780 |
WANG ON FATE OF SPECIAL BUDGET POST LY ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: LY President Wang Jin-pyng told the AIT Director November 24 that if the DPP controls the LY speakership after the December election, Taiwan's USD 18 billion special budget for the procurement of advanced weapon systems will pass but only over vigorous objections by the Pan-Blue. [...] |
2004-11-29 08:49:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
| 04TAIPEI3782 |
CSB HITS CONSTITUTION THEMES ON CAMPAIGN TRAIL [...] (C) Summary: President Chen Shui-bian told an audience on November 27 that he will "terminate the Chinese constitution" during his second term of office regardless of international pressure. Chen, appearing on the same stage as former President Lee Teng-hui, told the group that if the voters [...] |
2004-11-29 09:35:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3783 |
TAIWAN EXPORT CONTROL ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: AIT relayed ref A and ref B talking points, and ref C inquiry regarding possible export control talks on December 15-16, to Taiwan's Board of Foreign Trade (BOFT) and National Security Council (NSC) officials. Both BOFT and NSC indicated tentative acceptance of December 15-16 date [...] |
2004-11-29 23:48:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KSTC PARM TW |
| 04TAIPEI3793 |
MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS, [...] U.S.-Taiwan Relations "U.S. Continues Two-pronged Policy" Associate professor Yu Pen-li of the Graduate Institute of American Studies, Tamkang University, said in the pro-independence, English-language "Taipei Times" (11/29): ". In the future, the new US government will face several ne [...] |
2004-11-30 05:58:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3796 |
NSC SECGEN CHIOU ON CROSS-STRAIT/U.S.-TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary: National Security Council (NSC) Secretary General Chiou I-jen acknowledged continued USG concerns over where President Chen Shui-bian is leading Taiwan, but asserted that Chen knows that a move towards de jure independence would mean war. Chiou said that Taiwan will continue to s [...] |
2004-11-30 08:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3797 |
CHEN RESPONDS PUBLICLY TO USG CONCERNS OVER [...] (C) Summary: President Chen Shui-bian used an open press meeting with a group of visiting U.S. Congressmen on November 30 to respond to the State Department Spokesman's warning over constitutional revisions. Chen stated that there has been no change to the policy line he articulated in his May [...] |
2004-11-30 08:32:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3807 |
PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE DEFENDS CONSTITUTIONAL RHETORIC [...] (C) Summary: Presidential Office Deputy Secretary General James Huang asked AIT to convey a request for USG understanding over President Chen Shui-bian's recent constitution-related campaign rhetoric. Huang acknowledged that some of Chen's recent language had been "a little strong," especiall [...] |
2004-12-01 10:46:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3808 |
MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-02 00:00:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3809 |
"CHINA TIMES" ARTICLES ON WASHINGTON'S [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-02 00:01:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3826 |
MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-02 07:34:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3838 |
MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S SOVEREIGNTY ISSUE [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-03 04:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3839 |
CROSS-STRAIT ENTRY PERMIT REFORMS STILL NOT ENOUGH [...] (SBU) Taiwan's Executive Yuan (EY) recently announced a package of reforms that expands the range of firms that are permitted to apply for entry permits on behalf of their employees and loosens the restrictions on which employees qualify. However, while the reforms extend the length of stay i [...] |
2004-12-03 04:23:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ELAB CH TW |
| 04TAIPEI3845 |
TAIWAN DREAMS OF AN INDIAN CARD [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan dreams of parlaying closer economic, political, and educational ties with India into an economic and even strategic counterweight to China's regional dominance. India seeks Taiwan investment along with manufacturing and commercial expertise but rejects the idea of forming [...] |
2004-12-06 05:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ETRD PREL TW IN |
| 04TAIPEI3848 |
LY ELECTION PREVIEW: A TALE OF TWO HSINCHUS [...] (C) Summary: With a total of six open seats, Hsinchu city (three seats) and Hsinchu county (three seats) are two northern districts where the battle between Pan-Green and Pan-Blue forces for control of the Legislative Yuan (LY) could be determined. The Pan-Blue, which currently holds a two-to [...] |
2004-12-06 07:38:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3850 |
CROSS-STRAIT AVIATION - THE GOLDEN LINK STILL OUT [...] (C) Direct air transportation is the last area where the "three-links" have not been realized in either name or substance. Direct air links would cut passenger travel time by up to an hour and a half; ticket prices by more than 25 percent; and airfreight costs by 20 percent or more. Taiwan's [...] |
2004-12-06 07:40:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON PREL ETRD EINV TW CH |
| 04TAIPEI3851 |
CHEN PLANNING NEW STRATEGY FOR UN BID [...] (C) Summary. Foreign Minister Mark Chen told the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) that he was surprised by President Chen Shui-bian's recent announcement that Taipei plans to apply for UN membership under the name "Taiwan" instead of the "Republic of China" (ROC) in 2005. Officials claim th [...] |
2004-12-06 07:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3854 |
CHEN: OVERSEAS OFFICES, SOE'S TO BE CALLED [...] (C) Summary: President Chen Shui-bian pledged to change the name of Taiwan's overseas offices and State Owned Enterprises from "China" to "Taiwan" by 2006 during a December 5 press conference at Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) headquarters. In the same speech, Chen reiterated his intention [...] |
2004-12-06 08:36:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3859 |
MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S ECONOMIC PROSPECT, [...] Taiwan's Economic Prospect "Do Not Use [Reasons Like Taiwan's] Industry Outflow and Pro-China Attitude to Harm Taiwan's Credit Rating Again" The pro-independence "Liberty Times" editorialized (12/7): "It is regretful that while China's political and military threats have done serious d [...] |
2004-12-07 06:48:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3865 |
JASON HU GUARDEDLY OPTIMISTIC ON PAN-BLUE PROSPECTS [...] (C) Summary: Taichung City Mayor Jason Hu told the AIT Deputy Director December 1 that the Pan-Blue may well retain a working majority in the next LY session. Regardless he would urge KMT Chairman Lien Chan and those around him to resign, though they may resist. Whether or not the PFP perfor [...] |
2004-12-08 01:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
| 04TAIPEI3866 |
TAIWAN'S "NON-PARTISAN" PARTY: FLASH IN THE PAN OR [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan's newest and fifth largest party, the Non-Partisan Solidarity Union (NPSU), is facing an uphill battle to eke out enough seats this election to remain a viable political force in the post-December Legislative Yuan (LY). The NPSU will have to exceed the expectation of most [...] |
2004-12-08 01:25:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3867 |
LY ELECTION: DPP COULD GAIN BIG IN KAOHSIUNG COUNTY [...] (C) The Pan-Green could pick up two or even three Legislative Yuan (LY) seats in Kaohsiung County at the expense of the Kuomintang (KMT). Kaohsiung County's nine LY seats currently are split 5-4 in favor of the Pan-Blue, but the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is confident it can effectiv [...] |
2004-12-08 01:25:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3897 |
LY RACE TIGHTENS IN TAICHUNG CITY [...] (C) Summary: With three days left before election day, the field of viable candidates for the eight Legislative Yuan (LY) seats in the battleground city of Taichung has narrowed to nine from eighteen (See Reftel). Although the Pan-Blue camp appears poised to retain the four seats it won in the [...] |
2004-12-08 09:08:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3898 |
PAN-GREEN JUST SHORT OF A MAJORITY IN LY ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: With the battle for control of Taiwan's Legislative Yuan (LY) entering its final days, neither the Pan-Green nor Pan-Blue camp is likely to win an outright majority (113 or more out of 225 seats) on December 11. Although the race in several key districts is still too close to call [...] |
2004-12-08 10:01:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3899 |
TIEN HUNG-MAO: PARTING SHOTS [...] (C) Summary: Upon his return to Taipei from London, former Representative to the UK Tien Hung-mao defended himself and his staff on the passport case of the fugitive Andrew Wang's wife. He foresaw difficult times ahead for Taiwan in Europe as China expands its trade with EU nations and success [...] |
2004-12-08 10:01:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
| 04TAIPEI3900 |
KAOHSIUNG MAYOR ON LY ELECTION AND CABINET CHANGES [...] (C) In a December 1 meeting with visiting AIT Director Paal, Kaohsiung Mayor Frank Hsieh downplayed the possibility he would move to Taipei early next year to serve as Premier, suggesting that Yu Shyi-kun would continue in the position after the expected February cabinet reshuffle. Hsieh said [...] |
2004-12-08 10:01:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3904 |
"CHINA TIMES" EDITORIAL ON U.S.-TAIWAN [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-08 10:05:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3905 |
MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-08 10:06:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3906 |
MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-08 10:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3917 |
LY ELECTION PREVIEW: SOUTHERN TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary: Heading into the last few days of the Legislative Yuan (LY) campaign, little change is expected overall in Taiwan's southern districts, the Pan-Green's traditional stronghold. Southern Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) officials say the party already reached the point of "satura [...] |
2004-12-09 09:14:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3918 |
CHEN REJECTS USG CRITICISM OVER NAME CHANGE [...] (C) Summary: President Chen Shui-bian has reacted sharply to the State Department Deputy Spokesman's December 6 warning over Chen's plans to rename state-owned firms and overseas representative offices using "Taiwan." On the campaign trail, Chen has accused the USG of carrying water for Beijin [...] |
2004-12-09 09:34:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3919 |
LY ELECTION REGIONAL OVERVIEW [...] (C) Summary: The projected shift in the balance of power between the Pan-Green and Pan-Blue camps in the Legislative Yuan (LY) reflects changing electoral dynamics within Taiwan's five main regions. In the north the two sides will likely split the vote as they did in the last LY elections hel [...] |
2004-12-09 10:06:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3920 |
25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE "KAOHSIUNG INCIDENT" AND [...] (SBU) December 10, on the eve of Taiwan's legislative elections, marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most important political events in Taiwan's democratic history. On December 10, 1979, a group of demonstrators supporting the "Dang Wai" (non-KMT) magazine "Meilidao" (Formosa) marched to [...] |
2004-12-09 10:15:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3923 |
MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S PLAN TO CHANGE NAMES [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-09 10:27:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3924 |
TAIWAN MEDIA COVERAGE OF PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI- [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-09 20:57:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3930 |
CROSS-STRAIT INVESTMENT KEEPS GROWING [...] Taiwan investment in the PRC approved by Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs during the first six months of 2004 was 68 percent higher than the same period last year. PRC data also shows a substantial increase in contracted investment but a modest drop in realized investment. High-tech firm [...] |
2004-12-10 07:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ECON ETRD TW CH |
| 04TAIPEI3931 |
MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-10 07:46:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3939 |
LY CAMPAIGN ENTERS THE FINAL STRETCH [...] (C) Summary: As the campaign for control of the Legislative Yuan (LY) enters its final day, the outcome looks increasingly to be determined by a few key variables: signs that the KMT's "peipiao" vote allocation is breaking down, DPP fears of a TSU late surge, a spate of vote-buying arrests, an [...] |
2004-12-11 08:50:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3940 |
PAN-BLUE BEATS EXPECTATIONS AND RETAINS MAJORITY [...] (C) The Pan-Blue alliance lost only one seat and retained a majority with 114 of 225 seats, a surprising performance in the December 11 Legislative Yuan (LY) election. Most commercial and internal party polls, as well as analytical assessments (including AIT's) had expected the Pan-Blue allia [...] |
2004-12-11 14:42:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3941 |
NEW LY LINE-UP MAY MODERATE TAIWAN POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: The Pan-Blue's surprise victory in the December 11 Legislative Yuan (LY) election should help reduce extremism in Taiwan's political discourse. President Chen Shui-bian will be under pressure to moderate his offensive on sensitive issues like cross-Strait relations and constituti [...] |
2004-12-11 15:08:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3944 |
South Taiwan Races Intense but Voters Subdued [...] (SBU) On the eve of Taiwan's legislative elections, Southern Taiwan's races are intensely competitive, though most analysts predict little change in the overall Pan-Green/Pan-Blue ratio of seats here. For all but the top one or two candidates in each district, the races in much of the South [...] |
2004-12-12 23:18:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3953 |
SPECIAL 301 OCR: WHY WATCH LIST MOVES US FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: AIT/T supports downgrading Taiwan from the Priority Watch List to the Watch List in the current out of cycle review. Doing so will reinforce Taiwan's reorientation towards protecting intellectual property and provide a timely public relations victory for advocates of strong IPR [...] |
2004-12-13 07:17:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | KIPR ECON TW IPR |
| 04TAIPEI3956 |
PAN-GREEN SURPRISE DEFEAT: TECHNICAL FACTORS KEY? [...] (C) Summary: An overly aggressive nomination strategy combined with a lower than expected voter turnout to deal the Pan-Green camp a surprising defeat in the December 11 Legislative Yuan (LY) election. Although the Pan-Green alliance of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the Taiwan So [...] |
2004-12-13 10:09:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3957 |
BOTH CAMPS ADJUSTING TO NEW POLITICAL ALIGNMENT [...] (C) Summary: Both the ruling and opposition camps are taking stock of the surprising results of the December 11 Legislative Yuan (LY) election. President Chen Shui-bian is facing pressure to resign his position as Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairman, and speculation is growing over a [...] |
2004-12-13 10:21:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3959 |
MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S LEGISLATIVE ELECTION [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-13 23:35:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3961 |
Bilateral Consultations on Competition Law and Antitrust Seminar [...] (U) In order to share information and open channels for future cooperation on antitrust issues, AIT and the US Department of Justice met with officials from the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission (TFTC) in Taipei, November 15-16. DOJ and TFTC officials compared antitrust developments in the US and [...] |
2004-12-14 00:47:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ECON ETRD TW |
| 04TAIPEI3968 |
DOT A/S Bhatia Attends AAPA Meeting, Meets with [...] (SBU) Department of Transportation (DOT) Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs Karan SIPDIS Bhatia traveled to Taiwan November 25 and 26 to speak at the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) 48th Annual Assembly of Presidents Meeting. A/S Bhatia also met with Tai [...] |
2004-12-15 00:33:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL EAIR PGOV OVIP TW |
| 04TAIPEI3969 |
MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-15 00:33:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3984 |
MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-15 07:02:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI3987 |
LY ELECTION IN SOUTH -- LITTLE CHANGE, BUT A FEW [...] (C) While Southern Taiwan voted more or less as expected in the December 11 legislative election, with virtually no change in the overall Pan-Green/Pan-Blue ratio of legislative seats, there were a few surprises in individual races. Two independent candidates in Kaohsiung City who polled very [...] |
2004-12-15 08:01:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI3988 |
CHEN TAKES THE FALL FOR DPP LY SETBACK [...] (C) Summary: President Chen Shui-bian resigned his position as Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairman December 14 to accept full responsibility for the worse than expected showing in the December 11 Legislative Yuan (LY) election. In a speech to the DPP's Central Standing Committee (CSC) [...] |
2004-12-15 09:18:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
| 04TAIPEI3991 |
Taiwan Economic Review for November 2004 [...] This cable summarizes selected economic events in Taiwan in November 2004: - S&P Rating - China-ASEAN FTA - Economic Performance - WTO - Cross-Strait Economic Normalization - Environment S&P Downgrades Taiwan's Debt Outlook ------------------------------------ 2. At the [...] |
2004-12-16 03:49:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ECON TW |
| 04TAIPEI3992 |
Taiwan Growth Slowing [...] Taiwan's economic growth is expected to drop from 7.3 percent in the first half of 2004 to 4.7 percent in the second half following declines in export growth, industrial production, and private investment. END SUMMARY. Economic Slowdown ----------------- 2. In late November 2004, the [...] |
2004-12-16 03:50:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ECON TW |
| 04TAIPEI3996 |
TAIWAN REACTIONS TO CHINA/ASEAN FTA [...] Summary: Reactions in Taiwan to the announcement of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ranged from dire predictions of imminent isolation to suggestions that the immediate impact on Taiwan's economy will be minimal. Most analysts [...] |
2004-12-16 07:31:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD TW |
| 04TAIPEI3998 |
MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-16 21:56:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI4005 |
CROSS-STRAIT TELECOMMUNICATIONS - INDUSTRY [...] (SBU) Cross-Strait telecommunications thrive with over 50 million direct dial calls placed across the Strait every month that account for 35 percent of Taiwan's outgoing international calls. Many Taiwan telecom firms have partnered with PRC counterparts to provide special cross-Strait service [...] |
2004-12-17 07:35:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON EINV PREL CH TW |
| 04TAIPEI4007 |
KMT LEADERSHIP TRANSITION IN THE MIST [...] (C) Summary: The KMT's stronger than expected performance in the LY election will bring more uncertainty to the party's leadership question. While KMT Secretary General Lin Fong-cheng told local media on December 12 that Lien Chan would step down as party Chairman at the end of his term next [...] |
2004-12-19 21:49:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
| 04TAIPEI4016 |
MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S "ANTI-SECESSION" LAW [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-20 07:13:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI4021 |
TAIWAN'S IMPENDING HEALTH CARE CRISES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Taiwan Health care system is facing a number of crises. The National Health Insurance system is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. The Department of Health faces low morale, an inflexible and conservative bureaucracy, a shortage of strong leadership, and an exodus of th [...] |
2004-12-21 02:39:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV TW ESTH |
| 04TAIPEI4023 |
MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S "ANTI-SECESSION" LAW [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-21 05:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI4035 |
SPECIAL DEFENSE BUDGET PROSPECTS IN DOUBT [...] (C) Summary: Early passage of the USG 18 billion Special Budget for defense procurement appears increasingly unlikely as the Pan-Blue continues to block the bill from getting on the legislative agenda. Taiwan MND officials are now turning to the USG for assistance in overcoming Pan-Blue resis [...] |
2004-12-21 08:09:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
| 04TAIPEI4036 |
JUSTICES DEFANG LY'S "TRUTH INVESTIGATION [...] (C) Summary: The Council of Grand Justices ruled on December 15 that key portions of the statute establishing a commission to investigate the March 19 shooting of President Chen Shui-bian were unconstitutional. Although the "Truth Investigation Commission", established by the Pan-Blue majorit [...] |
2004-12-21 08:12:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI4037 |
15 New Southern Taiwan Legislators - An [...] (SBU) Thirty-three incumbents and 15 new legislators were elected from Southern Taiwan districts in the December 11 Legislative Yuan (LY) election. Twelve of the 15 new LY members have advanced degrees, including three PhD's and nine Master's degrees. Overall, the new LY members from the S [...] |
2004-12-22 01:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TW |
| 04TAIPEI4049 |
MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S "ANTI-SECESSION" LAW [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-22 08:54:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI4050 |
TAIWAN'S NEW FINANCIAL SUPERVISORY COMMISSION [...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission has been very active since it was established in July 2004 to encourage market liberalization and reform. Although some foreign businesses have complained about difficulty in keeping up with the flurry of new regulations, the regulati [...] |
2004-12-22 09:05:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR EINV EFIN ECON TW CH |
| 04TAIPEI4051 |
LENOVO/IBM DEAL MEANS BUSINESS AS USUAL FOR [...] (C) In the short term, Taiwan's information technology sector will not feel much impact from the Lenovo acquisition of IBM's PC division. However, over time Lenovo's increased bargaining power will increase competition among Taiwan's contract PC manufacturers and component suppliers. Some Ta [...] |
2004-12-22 22:44:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EIND CH TW |
| 04TAIPEI4064 |
MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-23 04:02:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI4066 |
TRAINING CUSTOMS TO TAKE OVER EXPORT MONITORING [...] Summary: The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) announced in early 2004 their desire to abolish the Export Management System (EMS) and transfer those responsibilities to the Department of Customs in an effort to shift funds to more urgent intellectual property protection priorities. T [...] |
2004-12-27 02:20:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR TW IPR |
| 04TAIPEI4068 |
News Coverage of Secret U.S. Envoy's Visit to [...] An article on the front page of the pro- independence "Liberty Times" said (12/27): Headline: "U.S. Secret Envoy Met with President Chen Shui-bian: [There Is] No Change in U.S.-Taiwan Relations. A Very High-Ranking U.S. Envoy Secretly Visited Taipei Before Christmas and Thought Positive o [...] |
2004-12-27 04:40:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI4074 |
AIT URGES TAIWAN TO FOLLOW ICCAT AND OTHER FISHING [...] Summary. On December 13 and 14, OES/OMC Deputy Director Stetson Tinkham urged Taiwan's Fisheries Agency and Ministry of Foreign Affairs to heed the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT) call for Taiwan to crack down on Taiwan fishing vessels found to be fishin [...] |
2004-12-27 07:32:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS TW |
| 04TAIPEI4075 |
CHINA'S "ANTI-SECESSION LAW," AND U.S.-TAIWAN [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-27 07:32:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI4076 |
PRESIDENT CHEN, UNDER POST-ELECTION PRESSURE, [...] (C) Summary. Post-December 11 election jockeying within the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and between Green and Blue alliances continues in ways that may affect cross-Strait and U.S. relations. Members of the DPP's New Tide faction are publicly and messily blaming President Chen [...] |
2004-12-27 21:29:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH TW |
| 04TAIPEI4082 |
MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S NATIONAL DEFENSE WHITE [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-28 02:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI4103 |
POLITICS TAR CONTROL YUAN NOMINATIONS [...] (C) Summary: The Presidential Office submitted on December 20 its list of 29 Control Yuan nominees for Legislative Yuan approval. Pan-Blue legislators, as well as some ruling DPP legislators, immediately dismissed the nominees as unqualified and vowed to resist the Presidential Office's atte [...] |
2004-12-28 07:15:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
| 04TAIPEI4118 |
MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S NATIONAL DEFENSE WHITE [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-29 09:21:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI4122 |
SUPPORTING THE RICE BOMBER - A DEMONSTRATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 26, about 500 farmers and activists demonstrated in central Taiwan to support Yang Ru- men, the "Rice Bomber," who planted a series of bombs around Taipei over the past 14 months. The farmers protested against rice imports and other post-WTO changes in Taiwan's trad [...] |
2004-12-30 00:11:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD ECON |
| 04TAIPEI4125 |
MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-30 06:47:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 04TAIPEI4134 |
TAIWAN ASKS FOR RECONSIDERATION OF SANCTIONS ON [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (S) Summary: In a meeting on December 30, Taiwan's Board of Foreign Trade Director Peter Ho requested that Washington Agencies reconsider sanctions on Taiwan's Ecoma Enterprise Co. Ltd. Taiwan had checked with Washington Agenci [...] |
2004-12-30 09:00:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | SECRET | ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM PREL TW |
| 05TAIPEI1026 |
DEFENSE PROCUREMENT SPECIAL BUDGET: PREPPING FOR [...] (C) Summary. The revised Defense Procurement Special Budget is still under discussion within the Executive Yuan (EY) in preparation for formal submission to the Legislative Yuan (LY). The Special Budget proposal that the Ministry of National Defense (MND) sent to the EY in February reduced [...] |
2005-03-09 09:32:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MASS TW |
| 05TAIPEI1027 |
TAIWAN ON EXBS TRAINING [...] (U) Action Request para 10. 2. (SBU) Summary: AIT met with Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT) Director Peter Ho on March 8, 2005 to discuss arrangements for the March 22-25 EXBS Training on export control laws and regulations. Ho expressed eagerness for the training and hoped that it will go [...] |
2005-03-09 09:49:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC ECON PREL TW |
| 05TAIPEI1028 |
MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S "ANTI-SECESSION LAW" [...] SUMMARY: News about China's anti-secession law, whose terms was unveiled Tuesday (3/8) when the bill was presented to the National People's Congress, was prominent on the front pages of all major dailies in Taiwan. While all the newspapers cited Taiwan officials criticizing the law as a step b [...] |
2005-03-09 23:33:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI1029 |
Taiwan Markets Calm After China's Anti-secession [...] (SBU) Taiwan's financial markets shrugged off China's "Anti-Secession Law" on March 8. The NT Dollar (NTD) appreciated against the U.S. dollar (USD), while the stock market index declined slightly. Foreign portfolio investors increased net stock purchases. Local economic observers believe [...] |
2005-03-09 23:33:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW |
| 05TAIPEI1037 |
ANTI-SECESSION LAW: BALANCING GAME [...] (S) Summary: Taiwan National Security Council (NSC) officials tell AIT that President Chen Shui-bian believes the USG's public reaction to the PRC Anti-Secession Law draft will help moderate public demands for a strong official response from Taipei. Nevertheless, officials say there remains s [...] |
2005-03-10 08:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | SECRET | PREL PGOV CH TW |
| 05TAIPEI1038 |
SMALL PRO-TIBETAN DEMONSTRATION AT AIT-TAIPEI [...] (U) On Thursday 10 March 2005, approximately ten members of the Tibetan Youth Congress gathered near the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT-Taipei) to stage a protest marking the forty-sixth anniversary of the Tibetan uprising against Chinese communist rule. The small band of protesters arrived [...] |
2005-03-10 09:00:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC TW |
| 05TAIPEI1045 |
MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S "ANTI-SECESSION LAW" [...] SUMMARY: As newspapers in Taiwan continued their coverage of China's "anti-secession law" March 10, the focus moved to the U.S. role in the situation. Comments by White House Spokesman Scott McClellan and State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher describing the "anti-secession law" as "unhelp [...] |
2005-03-11 00:01:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI1052 |
UNDERAGE MARRIAGE IN TAIWAN [...] (U) Following is AIT Taipei/Kaoshiung's preliminary report on child marriage in Taiwan. The report is according to reftel sections, beginning with A. In accordance with the USG's one-China policy, the use of the word country in reference to Taiwan is not used in this report. A) (U) What is [...] |
2005-03-11 05:20:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ECON ELAB SCUL SOCI KWMN TW |
| 05TAIPEI1055 |
TAIWAN CONFIRMS ADHERENCE TO 12 CT CONVENTIONS AND [...] (SBU) Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) on March 4 provided AIT official documentation confirming Taipei's adherence to the 12 international counterterrorism (CT) conventions and protocols. In December 2004, the Counterterrorism Action Group (CTAG) requested AIT verify that Taiwan [...] |
2005-03-11 07:02:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ASEC TW |
| 05TAIPEI1070 |
TAIWAN'S SPLIT PERSONALITY ON TRADE POLICY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Taiwan displays a split personality when it comes to trade policy. Open trade is desirable for the manufacturing and industrial sectors, but on agriculture, Taiwan takes a decidedly protectionist approach. Despite a dramatically improved environment in bilateral trade over the [...] |
2005-03-11 08:30:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EAGR PGOV TW |
| 05TAIPEI1071 |
TAIWAN BFDA PROMISES TRANSPARENCY ON PHARMA [...] Summary: Taiwan's Director of the Bureau of Food and Drug Analysis confirmed to AIT and a visiting Department of Commerce official March 9 that his bureau was fully responsible for the development and implementation of pharmaceutical validation and site inspection requirements. He promised t [...] |
2005-03-11 09:16:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON TW |
| 05TAIPEI1072 |
TAIWAN'S "GREEN" PARTY PICKS ECONOMICS OVER THE [...] (C) Summary. The Kyoto Protocol coming into force on February 16th has led Taiwan's policy makers to espouse a renewed commitment to work on reducing greenhouse gas emissions within Taiwan. However, the Kyoto Protocol is not driving changes in Taiwan's environmental policies. Taiwan has fa [...] |
2005-03-13 22:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG KNNP SENV PREL TW |
| 05TAIPEI1074 |
MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S "ANTI-SECESSION LAW" [...] Summary: Major Chinese-language newspapers in Taiwan continued to report on China's "anti-secession law" March 11 by focusing on President Chen Shui-bian's articulation of gratitude to Washington for its concern about the legislation and for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's comments on it [...] |
2005-03-13 23:31:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI1076 |
PROSECUTORS CONFIDENT IN CHEN SHOOTING [...] (SBU) Summary. In a conversation with AIT/K, Tainan Prosecutors investigating the 19 March 2004 shooting of President Chen and Vice President Lu expressed confidence that their investigation had narrowed to a single, most likely perpetrator -- Chen Yi-hsiung, an unemployed 64-year-old man fr [...] |
2005-03-13 23:31:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TW |
| 05TAIPEI1079 |
SMALL ANTI-AMERICAN DEMONSTRATION AT AIT-TAIPEI [...] (U) On Friday 11 March 2005, activist ZHOU Qingjun and five followers from his self-proclaimed Republic of China Patriotic Alliance staged a brief anti-American protest outside the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT-Taipei) Consular section. The demonstrators arrived around 1015 hours local ti [...] |
2005-03-14 03:49:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC TW |
| 05TAIPEI1080 |
CROSS-STRAIT - UNILATERAL ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION [...] (C) In the positive atmosphere following the Lunar New Year charter flights, recent moves by the Taiwan government have suggested that it was on the verge of further liberalization across a range of cross-Strait economic policy areas. These include the creation of an offshore dollar-denominat [...] |
2005-03-14 04:55:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EFIN TW CH |
| 05TAIPEI1085 |
TAIWAN REACTS NEGATIVELY TO ANTI-SECESSION LAW [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan issued a strong formal reaction to the PRC National People's Congress (NPC) March 14 passage of the Anti-Secession Law. Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Chairman Joseph Wu, speaking for the government, condemned the PRC move as "provocative" and in violation of the will of th [...] |
2005-03-14 10:29:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR CH TW |
| 05TAIPEI1086 |
TAIWAN SEEKING CLOSER TIES TO ISRAEL [...] (C) Summary. Taiwan is seeking closer political, economic, and security ties with Israel. Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) officials are accelerating their campaign to use NGOs and think-tanks to promote Taipei's interests in Israel. Despite Israel's one-China policy, Tel Aviv perm [...] |
2005-03-14 22:34:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR TW IS |
| 05TAIPEI1090 |
MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S ANTI-SECESSION LAW [...] Summary: Major newspapers in Taiwan continue to scrutinize the progress and possible impact of China's anti-secession law. Taiwan newspapers played up comments made by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that maintain that the law clearly raises cross-Strait tensions and several reported on po [...] |
2005-03-14 23:22:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI1091 |
ECONOMICS COULD DIMINISH PRC INTEREST IN [...] (C) The next Chairman of the Taipei Airlines Association (TAA) believes that Chinese airlines are not interested in cross-Strait charter cargo flights because they don't have the capacity to compete with China Airlines (CAL) and EVA Air. He says that CAL has unrealistic expectations of the lo [...] |
2005-03-15 01:08:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON CH TW |
| 05TAIPEI1107 |
TAIWAN: 2004 TRADE PERFORMANCE [...] Summary: Taiwan's global trade in 2004 totaled USD 341.9 billion, a record. Both global exports and imports registered historic highs of USD 174 billion and 167.9 billion, respectively, according to Taiwan's Ministry of Finance (MOF). However, due to a faster rate of growth in imports than [...] |
2005-03-15 07:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON KTDB TW |
| 05TAIPEI1110 |
MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S ANTI-SECESSION LAW [...] Summary: Reactions to China's passage of the Anti- Secession Law dominated news coverage in Taiwan newspapers March 15, as major Chinese-language dailies dedicated an average of six pages to the issue. In addition to denunciations of the law by Taiwan officials and politicians, all major news [...] |
2005-03-15 08:30:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI1112 |
SPECIAL BUDGET POLITICS: NO PLAN TO SPLIT PACKAGE [...] (C) Summary: National Security Council (NSC) officials denied March 11 press reports that the Ministry of National Defense (MND) is preparing to remove PAC-III anti-air systems from the special defense procurement budget package awaiting approval by the Legislative Yuan (LY). The Chen adminis [...] |
2005-03-15 12:32:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS MARR PGOV CH TW |
| 05TAIPEI1125 |
NEW KAOHSIUNG MAYOR ON CROSS-STRAIT AND OTHER [...] (C) In an initial call by AIT/K Branch Chief on newly appointed Kaohsiung Acting Mayor Chen Chi-Mai, Chen described himself as a DPP moderate who sees expanded cross-Strait economic ties as the best way to build confidence across the Strait. Widely seen as a protege of President Chen, Mayor [...] |
2005-03-16 08:18:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR TW |
| 05TAIPEI1137 |
MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S ANTI-SECESSION LAW [...] Summary: Leading newspapers in Taiwan continued their coverage March 16 of the impact of China's Anti- Secession Law and the U.S. role in the matter, although local politics appeared on the front pages of some of the newspapers. All newspapers carried stories regarding Taiwan Premier Frank Hs [...] |
2005-03-16 08:22:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI1145 |
TAIWAN'S NEW GOVERNMENT INFORMATION OFFICE DIRECTOR [...] (C) Summary: The appointment of Yao Wen-chi (aka Pasuya Yao) to be Taiwan,s new Government Information Office (GIO) Director represents another move by Premier Frank Hsieh to position his long-time aides in key EY positions. Yao is a long-time AIT/K contact and previously served as Kaohsiung [...] |
2005-03-16 08:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR TW |
| 05TAIPEI115 |
TAIWAN: 2004-2005 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS [...] AIT 2004-2005 PART II INCSR Responses follow: 2. Taiwan is not considered an important regional or offshore financial center. Money laundering in Taiwan is not generally related to narcotics trafficking. Most illegal or unregulated financial activities are done to avoid taxes or conceal [...] |
2005-01-13 04:28:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PTER KSEP SNAR KTFN TW |
| 05TAIPEI1151 |
PREMIER CONTINUES TO MOVE CLOSE AIDES TO KEY [...] (C) Summary. According to long-time allies of Premier Frank Hsieh, Hsieh will continue to move key staff from the Kaohsiung City Administration to the Executive Yuan. However, political considerations are forcing a slow pace in the announcements. Sources told AIT/K that former Kaohsiung Cit [...] |
2005-03-16 08:31:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV TW |
| 05TAIPEI1152 |
Taiwan's 2004 Balance of Payments [...] In 2004 Taiwan's balance of payments (BOP) posted a surplus of US$26.6 billion, resulting from its trade surplus, earnings from foreign exchange reserves, and capital inflows prompted by continued Taiwan Dollar (NTD) appreciation against the USD. The stronger NTD appears to be cutting into [...] |
2005-03-16 08:32:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ECON TW |
| 05TAIPEI1153 |
PRESIDENT CHEN COMMENTS ON ANTI-SECESSION LAW [...] (C) Summary: President Chen Shui-bian used a March 16 speech to an overseas Taiwanese group to make his first public comments on the Anti-Secession Law since its passage on March 14. Declaring the PRC legislation an "invasion law," Chen provided a six point position that highlighted Taiwan ob [...] |
2005-03-16 11:08:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR CH TW |
| 05TAIPEI1164 |
MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S ANTI-SECESSION LAW [...] Summary: News coverage of major Taiwan newspapers March 17 focused on follow-up U.S. reaction and Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's first public statement on China's Anti-Secession Law. All newspapers reported that the U.S. House of Representatives was poised to approve a resolution March 16 t [...] |
2005-03-17 07:56:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI1171 |
MARKETS STEADY AS TAIWAN REACTS TO ANTI-SECESSION [...] (SBU) Taiwan's stock market showed a significant drop March 14 and 15 as the PRC passed the Anti-Secession Law and Taiwan's officials reacted. The NT dollar also lost value. However, it is unclear whether these declines were a result of the Anti-Secession Law or completely unrelated factors. [...] |
2005-03-17 08:59:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ECON TW |
| 05TAIPEI1173 |
ANTI-SECESSION LAW: TAIWAN CALLS FOR [...] (C) Summary. Taipei is aggressively courting international support in its opposition to Beijing's Anti-Secession Law. Taiwan diplomats and representatives abroad have been tasked with lobbying host governments, and President Chen has given interviews to the foreign media. On March 15, Mini [...] |
2005-03-17 09:44:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TW |
| 05TAIPEI1176 |
AMERICAN INSTITUTE IN TAIWAN REPORTS PEACEFUL [...] (U) On Wednesday 16 March 2005, activist ZHOU Qingjun and five followers from his self-proclaimed Republic of China Patriotic Alliance staged a brief anti-American protest outside the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT-Taipei) Consular section. The demonstrators arrived around 1500 hours local [...] |
2005-03-17 23:55:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC TW |
| 05TAIPEI118 |
LIEN CHAN ON SPECIAL BUDGET, CROSS-STRAIT, AND PFP [...] (C) Summary: KMT Chairman Lien Chan told AIT Director on December 12 that the KMT Legislative Yuan (LY) caucus intends to pass half (approximately USD nine billion) of the USD 18 billion as soon as the legislation is resubmitted in the next LY session, beginning February 1. On the cross-Strai [...] |
2005-01-13 06:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
| 05TAIPEI1183 |
LY PRESIDENT WANG JOINS KMT CHAIRMAN RACE [...] (C) Summary: Legislative Yuan (LY) President Wang Jin-pyng declared his candidacy for the KMT Chairman race on March 17. Wang's long-expected announcement came a day after the KMT formally decided to postpone the election date from May 28 to July 16. Wang's opponent, Taipei City Mayor Ma Ying [...] |
2005-03-18 06:49:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
| 05TAIPEI1185 |
MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S ANTI-SECESSION LAW [...] Summary: Major Chinese-language newspapers in Taiwan continued March 18 to report on China's Anti-Secession Law by focusing on the U.S. House of Representatives' successful passage of a resolution Thursday demanding that the Bush administration express grave concern about the Anti-Secession La [...] |
2005-03-18 08:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI1187 |
ANNIVERSARY PROTEST OF MARCH 19 SHOOTING LARGELY [...] (C) Summary: Pan-Blue officials have told AIT that the planned March 19 rally to protest the one-year anniversary of the shooting of President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu is primarily to placate KMT Chairman Lien Chan. Though there are widespread doubts among Pan-Blue -- and n [...] |
2005-03-18 09:27:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC TW |
| 05TAIPEI1188 |
SECRETARY'S BEIJING VISIT: TAIWAN HOPES FOR MIX OF [...] (S) Summary: National Security Council (NSC) Secretary General Chiou I-jen asked AIT March 18 that Secretary Rice deliver a firm message to PRC leaders over the recent enactment of the Anti-Secession Law during her upcoming visit to Beijing. At the same time, Chiou hoped the Secretary would u [...] |
2005-03-18 10:15:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | SECRET | PREL PGOV CH TW |
| 05TAIPEI1191 |
CROSS-STRAIT INVESTMENT SURGES 51.1 [...] Taiwan's investment in the PRC rose by 51.1 percent in 2004 accounting for 67 percent of overall outbound investment from the island according to statistics from the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA). Both the number of investment projects and their average value increased. However, PRC d [...] |
2005-03-21 04:21:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON EFIN TW CH |
| 05TAIPEI1195 |
Southern Taiwan Reaction to Anti-Secession Law: [...] (SBU) In the political heartland of Taiwan's independence movement, Southern Taiwan political leaders have reacted strongly to Beijing's passage of the "Anti-Secession Law" (ASL), with acting Kaohsiung City Mayor, Chen Chi Mai and Kaohsiung County Magistrate Yang Chiu-hsing taking leading role [...] |
2005-03-21 05:05:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON TW |
| 05TAIPEI1200 |
MEDIA REACTION: RICE'S BEIJING TRIP [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-21 08:34:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI1201 |
SPECIAL DEFENSE BUDGET FACING POLITICAL MINEFIELD [...] (C) Summary: A Pan-Blue leadership vacuum, political posturing by key legislators, and a hostile media environment may pose major barriers to early legislative action on the government's proposed special defense procurement budget. The Executive Yuan (EY) on March 16 slashed the funding reques [...] |
2005-03-21 10:03:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MASS MARR CH TW |
| 05TAIPEI1216 |
TAIWAN INVESTMENT IN PRC - NOT JUST FOR EXPORT [...] (U) A survey of Taiwan enterprises in the PRC shows that 55 percent of their total output by value was sold within the PRC. More than half of those surveyed cited the expanding PRC domestic market as a primary reason for investing. In addition, the survey showed that 50 percent of inputs were [...] |
2005-03-22 07:22:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON EFIN TW CH |
| 05TAIPEI1217 |
US/TAIWAN HOLD FIRST ANTI-TRUST WORKING GROUP [...] Summary: Representatives from the US Department of Justice and Fair Trade Commission and representatives from the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission held a Digital Video Conference (DVC) March 16. This was the first meeting under the auspices of the U.S./Taiwan Anti-trust Working Group. The TFTC [...] |
2005-03-22 07:35:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KIPR TW IPR |
| 05TAIPEI1224 |
MEDIA REACTION: RICE'S BEIJING TRIP [...] Summary: The Taipei dailies continued March 22 to report on U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to Beijing by focusing on a press conference she attended there Monday in which she said the Anti- Secession Law is not a welcome development and Beijing should adopt measures to reduce [...] |
2005-03-22 08:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI1225 |
TAIPEI WELCOMES SECRETARY'S PUBLIC REMARKS IN [...] (C) Taiwan officials have expressed appreciation for Secretary Rice's public remarks on the Anti-Secession Law and SIPDIS Taiwan Relations Act during her March 20-21 visit to Beijing. Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Chairman Joseph Wu told AIT the Secretary's statements were "wonderful" and [...] |
2005-03-22 08:54:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TW |
| 05TAIPEI1226 |
TAIWAN - MARITIME SECURITY COORDINATION AND [...] (SBU) In response to reftel, AIT/T offers the following information on maritime security issues in Taiwan. Taiwan's cooperation with the U.S. on maritime security issues is excellent, due in part to the importance of the shipping industry to the island's economy and Taiwan's exclusion from in [...] |
2005-03-22 09:06:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT ECON ETRD KSTC PARM PHSA PREL PTER ASEC |
| 05TAIPEI1229 |
MARCH 19 RALLY ATTACKS CHEN, SOONG, AND MA [...] (C) Summary: The KMT's March 19 rally was more significant for the drama behind the scenes than what unfolded on stage. Although originally organized to protest the DPP government's handling of last year's election eve shooting of President Chen and VP Lu, the rally deteriorated into a pair [...] |
2005-03-22 10:28:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL TW |
| 05TAIPEI1233 |
TAIWAN TEXTILE INDUSTRY SEARCHES FOR [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-23 05:40:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KTEX ETRD TW |
| 05TAIPEI130 |
CROSS-STRAIT CHARTER FLIGHTS: ONE STEP FORWARD [...] (C) Summary. According to Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), Beijing this afternoon, January 13, accepted Taiwan's proposed delegation to participate in negotiations on direct cross-Strait charter flights around the Chinese New Year. At this still early point in the negotiation proces [...] |
2005-01-13 10:51:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
| 05TAIPEI134 |
SPECIAL 301 OUT-OF-CYCLE REVIEW NOTIFICATION - [...] Econ Chief met January 13 with Taiwan Intellectual Property Office Deputy Director General Jack Lu to deliver reftel points and delivered the same message in a call to Ministry of Economic Affairs Deputy Minister Steve Chen. Chen and Lu welcomed the news that Taiwan would be downgraded from t [...] |
2005-01-13 23:25:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ECON IPR |
| 05TAIPEI1343 |
TAIWAN POLITICS AND EXPORT CONTROL [...] (SBU) The State NP EXBS (Export Control and Border Security) training on Export Control Laws and Regulations began on March 22 with 38 participants representing 16 different Taiwan Executive Branch agencies, one Legislative Yuan (LY) Member, and one LY staffer. After official opening remarks [...] |
2005-03-23 09:18:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW |
| 05TAIPEI135 |
MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT CHARTER FLIGHTS, [...] Cross-Strait Charter Flights A) "Both Sides of the Taiwan Strait Seize the Opportunity to Break the Ice and Create a Win-Win Situation" Journalist Chu Chien-ling observed in the centrist, pro- status quo "China Times" (1/13): ". Judging from the interactions [between the two sides of t [...] |
2005-01-14 00:27:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI136 |
STEEL AND CEMENT - DEEPENING CROSS-STRAIT ECONOMIC [...] (C) Taiwan,s steel industry is exporting a large portion of its output to the PRC, accounting for as much as 50 percent of Taiwan,s steel exports. As is the case for many other Taiwan exports to the Mainland, Taiwan steel is mainly used to manufacture consumer goods for re-export to markets i [...] |
2005-01-14 01:00:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV PREL CH TW |
| 05TAIPEI1366 |
MEDIA REACTION: RICE'S BEIJING TRIP AND THE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-24 08:21:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI1376 |
CROSS-STRAIT LIBERALIZATION ON HOLD UNTIL MAY [...] (C) Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Department of Economic Director Fu Don-cheng confirmed that cross-Strait economic liberalization and government-sponsored exchanges are on hold until at least May. He said that the recent goodwill measures offered by the PRC on passenger charter flights, agr [...] |
2005-03-25 04:13:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EAIR ETTC EFIN CH TW |
| 05TAIPEI1402 |
UMC ANNOUNCES DEAL WITH PRC'S HE JIAN [...] (C) Semiconductor manufacturer United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) announced a deal whereby it would receive 15 percent of He Jian Technology Co. It is not yet clear whether this deal will help UMC resolve accusations that it illegally provided assistance to the PRC competitor in violation of [...] |
2005-03-25 09:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETTC TW CH |
| 05TAIPEI1403 |
3/26 RALLY AIMS TO CONTAIN ANTI-SECESSION LAW [...] (C) Summary: President Chen Shui-bian announced on March 24 that he would participate, but not speak at, the March 26 "Use Peace and Democracy to Protect Taiwan" rally in Taipei. Presidential aides say the rally is aimed at releasing public anger over the PRC's March 14 enactment of the Anti-Se [...] |
2005-03-25 09:37:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
| 05TAIPEI1404 |
WHERE HAVE ALL THE BUSES GONE? -- THE 326 PROTEST [...] (C) SUMMARY. Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) plans for a one-million-person rally on March 26 to protest China's Anti-Secession Law are running into logistical problems. While Southern Taiwan DPP offices and officials have found no shortage of supporters willing to participate, they fear a [...] |
2005-03-26 01:57:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 05TAIPEI1407 |
CHEN SHUI-BIAN: RESILIENT, IN CONTROL, BUT BOXED IN [...] (C) Summary. In the three months since he led his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) into its December legislative election setback, President Chen Shui-bian has stepped back from the confrontational public rhetoric he brought to both the presidential and legislative campaigns last year. His [...] |
2005-03-28 06:04:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
| 05TAIPEI1409 |
Taiwan's Next Step in Chunghwa Telecom [...] Taiwan Premier Frank Hsieh has revived Taiwan's stalled privatization plans by ordering the sale of another 17% of government equity in Chunghwa Telecom Company (CTC), Taiwan's largest telecomm firm. The planned transaction will reduce government ownership in CTC to below 50%. Revenue from t [...] |
2005-03-28 07:47:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ECON TW |
| 05TAIPEI1413 |
Taiwan State-owned Bank for Sale [...] (U) In mid-March 2005, two foreign consortia bid on the Changhwa Commercial Bank (CCB), slated to become the first Taiwan state-owned bank sold to foreign investors. If the bid price is too low, Taiwan may reconsider the proposed sale. The sale of CCB to foreign investors is a key part of T [...] |
2005-03-28 07:48:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ECON TW |
| 05TAIPEI1421 |
PROCUREMENT STILL A CHALLENGE IN TAIWAN [...] (U) Summary: The public procurement process in Taiwan remains a longstanding irritant for US firms. Several recent cases of US firms running into problems with the procurement process, including allegations of improper political influence in the tendering process, indicate that this issue s [...] |
2005-03-28 07:56:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON BEXP ETRD TW |
| 05TAIPEI1426 |
MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S ANTI-SECESSION LAW, CROSS- [...] Summary: All major Taiwan newspapers carried extensive coverage over the weekend of the massive protest in Taipei March 26 against China's new Anti-Secession Law. All Taiwan newspapers described the rally in front of Taipei's Presidential Office as a peaceful demonstration, although their rep [...] |
2005-03-28 09:20:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI1434 |
FALSE MARRIAGES USED FOR TRAFFICKING IN TAIWAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Kaoshiung County Police officials are investigating an organized crime case involving six Cambodian women who were trafficked to Taiwan and forced into prostitution. The women were promised jobs in a factory in Southern Taiwan and trafficked to Taiwan under false marriages. A [...] |
2005-03-28 09:25:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ASEC TW TIP |
| 05TAIPEI1436 |
MARCH 26 RALLY CONCLUDES PEACEFULLY, ROCKY ROAD [...] (C) Summary: The March 26 "Love Peace, Protect Taiwan" rally organized to protest the PRC's Anti-Secession Law (ASL) proceeded peacefully. The Pan-Green claimed it mobilized almost one million people, but actual numbers are difficult to determine and subject to an ongoing partisan debate. Pr [...] |
2005-03-28 12:06:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
| 05TAIPEI1437 |
PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR WARNS OF DETERIORATING [...] (C) Summary: Presidential Office Deputy Secretary General James Huang told AIT on March 28 that Taipei will need some time before returning to the path of engagement with the PRC. Huang said that the government has concluded that Beijing timed the release of the Hsu Wen-lung letter (Septel) an [...] |
2005-03-28 12:13:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR CH TW |
| 05TAIPEI1438 |
BEIJING PRESSURES PRO-DPP BUSINESS LEADER TO [...] (S) Summary: Long-time pro-DPP business leader Hsu Wen-lung penned a letter to a Taiwan newspaper on March 26 endorsing the PRC's position on "one China." Hsu's move was widely interpreted by the media and political world as a sign of mounting PRC pressure on Taiwan business leaders. Presiden [...] |
2005-03-28 12:30:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR CH TW |
| 05TAIPEI1499 |
TAIWAN PROPOSES LATE-APRIL/MAY FOR MEGAPORTS VISIT [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-29 06:34:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KNNP PARM EWWT OTRA TW |
| 05TAIPEI1511 |
TAIWAN BUSINESS COMMUNITY ALREADY PREPARED FOR PRC [...] (C) Taiwan's business community agrees that Chi-mei's Hsu Wen-lung issued his pro-"one China" statement March 26 due entirely to PRC pressure. However, it also agrees that the statement will not affect the level or growth of Taiwan investment in the Mainland. Taiwan investors had already lea [...] |
2005-03-29 09:18:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV TW CH |
| 05TAIPEI1512 |
TAIWAN MAKING SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS ON TIP [...] (U) Action Request see paragraph 7. 2. (U) AIT officers visited the Hsinchu Detention Center on March 29 and found the situation considerably improved for TIP victims since the November 2004 G/TIP visit. Ministry of Interior (MOI) authorities have made substantial efforts to improve protec [...] |
2005-03-29 10:53:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ASEC TW TIP |
| 05TAIPEI1514 |
SPECIAL DEFENSE BUDGET REMAINS STUCK IN PROCEDURE [...] (C) Summary: The KMT and People First Party (PFP) rejected the government's request to place the special defense procurement budget on the Legislative Yuan (LY) calendar during a March 29 meeting of the Procedure Committee. This was the second week in a row that the committee refused to place [...] |
2005-03-29 11:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS MARR PREL PGOV TW |
| 05TAIPEI1525 |
SOONG'S WEAKENING GRIP OVER THE PFP [...] (C) Summary: PFP Chairman James Soong's attempts to carve out an independent political niche for himself in Taiwan may be under threat from growing disunity within his party. The February 24 meeting between Soong and President Chen Shui-bian may have prolonged Soong's political survival but t [...] |
2005-03-30 09:58:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL TW |
| 05TAIPEI1526 |
MILITARY OFFICERS INVOLVED IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND [...] (SBU) Summary: A year-long investigation into a illegal loan-sharking operation run by two Taiwan Army officers has resulted in a number of arrests and revealed additional involvement in prostitution, human trafficking and illegal weapons sales, according to local prosecutors. Kaohsiung pro [...] |
2005-03-31 00:31:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM ASEC TW TIP |
| 05TAIPEI153 |
Taiwan: 2004 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] The following is the Taiwan Investment Climate Statement for 2004, as requested reftel. A copy has been transmitted by e-mail to EB/OIA. ---------------------------------- A.1 Openness to Foreign Investment ---------------------------------- 2. Taiwan officially welcomes foreign direct [...] |
2005-01-14 06:12:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ECON TW |
| 05TAIPEI1554 |
MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] Summary: The coverage of the major Taipei dailies March 30 focused on KMT Vice Chairman Chiang Pin-kun's visit to China aimed at promoting cross-Strait relations. The major Chinese-language newspapers ran, either on their front pages or one of the first few inside pages, the news that Preside [...] |
2005-03-31 00:45:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI1560 |
Taiwan's Growth Continues Slowing [...] The slowing trend of Taiwan's economic growth has continued from the second half of 2004 into the first two months of 2005. Export growth has declined steadily. Industrial production has gone from growth to decline, while unemployment has edged-up for the first time in the past seven months. [...] |
2005-03-31 01:47:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW |
| 05TAIPEI1563 |
TAIWAN: RESPONSE ON BLUE LANTERN LICENSE 05- [...] Concerning the purchase application package of DTC CASE number 05-948068, for end user Chung Shan Institute of Science (CSIS). 2. Mr. W. Z. Chen who signed the Ring Line purchase orders is the company's chairman. Ms. Felisa Chang, W.Z. Chen's secretary, confirmed that CSIS is the end u [...] |
2005-03-31 07:51:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KOMC ETTC KSEP TW |
| 05TAIPEI1571 |
TAIWAN'S NEW COUNTERTERRORISM OFFICE [...] (C) AIT/T Deputy Director Keegan hosted officials from Taiwan's new Counterterrorism Office (CTO) to lunch on March 29 in order to learn the function of the office and how AIT might interface with it. Taiwan participants included National Security Council (NSC) Deputy Secretary General (Ste [...] |
2005-03-31 09:25:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PARM PINR PREL PTER TW |
| 05TAIPEI1572 |
CHEN ADMINISTRATION DENOUNCES KMT-CCP AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Chen administration officials denounced a 10-point joint statement worked out in Beijing March 30 between KMT Vice Chairman P.K. Chiang and PRC Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) Director Chen Yunlin. Pan-Blue officials hailed the KMT-CCP meeting as the start of a new offensive to wrest [...] |
2005-03-31 10:15:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR CH TW |
| 05TAIPEI1575 |
TAIWAN LACKS DIPLOMATIC STRATEGY TO COUNTER BEIJING [...] (C) Summary. Taiwan lacks a viable foreign policy strategy to counter Beijing's growing international clout and global campaign to isolate Taipei. Taiwan foreign policy experts anticipate that a domestic crisis could be brewing as Taipei becomes diplomatically marginalized around the world a [...] |
2005-04-01 03:46:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TW |
| 05TAIPEI1582 |
Economic Briefing for March 2005 [...] This cable summarizes selected recent economic events in Taiwan in March 2005: --Taiwan's economic performance in Q1 of 2005 --Privatization of two large state-owned enterprises --Legal-regulatory workshop for export control --High-Speed Rail Continues Efforts to Raise Capital --Ta [...] |
2005-04-01 08:37:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW |
| 05TAIPEI1591 |
MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] Summary: Coverage of the major Chinese-language Taipei dailies continued to focus on KMT Vice Chairman P.K. Chiang's visit to China and the ten-point consensus reached between the KMT and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Several newspapers reported on either their front or first few pages t [...] |
2005-04-01 08:40:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI1592 |
Results of 2005 South China Reporting Conference in [...] (SBU) Reporting officers from Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Kaohsiung joined AIT/T ECON, POL, FAS, FCS, JOs and CLASS students at the 2005 South China Reporting Conference held in Taipei March 24-25. After welcoming remarks from AIT/T Deputy Director Keegan, the 25-30 participants in t [...] |
2005-04-01 08:45:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PREL CH TW |
| 05TAIPEI1594 |
CROSS-STRAIT TRADE - TAIWAN'S SURPLUS GROWS, [...] (C) Taiwan's exports to the PRC grew by 27.2 percent in 2004 as its imports from the Mainland grew even more rapidly at 52.2 percent. Components shipped to Taiwan firms assembling electronic consumer goods in the PRC dominated Taiwan's exports at 57 percent, but similar products also made up [...] |
2005-04-04 03:09:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON EINV TW CH |
| 05TAIPEI1620 |
MEDIA REACTION: U.S. AND CROSS-STRAIT [...] No summary [...] |
2005-04-04 08:32:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI1625 |
POLITICAL FALLOUT CONTINUES OVER KMT-CCP ACCORD [...] (C) Summary: The Chen administration has heightened its criticism over the KMT's recent rapprochement with Beijing, accusing the opposition party of undermining national sovereignty and warning of legal sanctions. KMT officials tell AIT they will not be deterred in their effort to overturn wh [...] |
2005-04-04 11:02:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR CH TW |
| 05TAIPEI1626 |
CHEN ADMINISTRATION ISSUES SEVEN POINT STATEMENT [...] (C) Taiwan National Security Advisor Chiou I-jen contacted AIT Director by phone on April 5 to inform him that President Chen Shui-bian had just concluded a meeting to discuss how to respond to the recent contacts between the KMT and Beijing, especially the recent trip of KMT Vice Chairman Chia [...] |
2005-04-05 14:14:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | CH PGOV PREL TW US |
| 05TAIPEI1640 |
TAIWAN'S FOURTH NUCLEAR POWER PLANT - HURDLES [...] (C) Summary. While the chances of completing the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) have improved under the second Chen Administration (refs a and b), serious challenges remain. Contractors for the project describe its management as beset by mass confusion and poor planning. While the Chen A [...] |
2005-04-06 05:42:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG KNNP SENV PREL TW |
| 05TAIPEI1644 |
MEDIA REACTION: U.S. AND CROSS-STRAIT [...] Summary: Coverage of the Taipei dailies April 6 centered on the cross-Strait relations and local politics. All the major Chinese-language Taipei dailies reported on their front pages that President Chen Shui-bian decided in a meeting Tuesday that the government will utilize laws to deal with [...] |
2005-04-06 08:11:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI165 |
MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT CHARTER FLIGHTS [...] No summary [...] |
2005-01-14 08:30:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI1671 |
FM CHEN REQUESTS USG ASSISTANCE FOR VATICAN VISIT [...] (C) Foreign Minister Mark Chen contacted AIT on April 6 to ask for USG assistance with President Chen Shui-bian's planned trip to the Vatican on April 8 to attend memorial services for Pope John Paul II. FM Chen said that the Holy See has received approval from the Italian government to grant [...] |
2005-04-06 23:19:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CH TW |
| 05TAIPEI168 |
REALITY CHECK ON DPP-PFP COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: PFP Chairman James Soong is struggling to recover from a political setback and is using everything within his means. Soong has fueled rumors of a DPP-PFP alliance and is hoping to use a visit to Washington to sanction his role as a national leader in Taiwan. The DPP, having fal [...] |
2005-01-14 10:13:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
| 05TAIPEI1684 |
CHEN ADMINISTRATION WARNS KMT, BEIJING OVER [...] (C) Summary: The Chen administration's April 5 "Seven Point" statement was aimed at laying down a marker for both Beijing and the KMT ahead of a proposed meeting between PRC President Hu Jintao and KMT Chairman Lien Chan, according to a readout provided to AIT on April 6. Taiwan officials said [...] |
2005-04-07 11:13:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH TW |
| 05TAIPEI1690 |
CROSS-STRAIT TRADE AND INVESTMENT TRENDS GIVE PRC [...] (C) In recent reporting, AIT/T has identified three important trends in cross-Strait trade and investment. First, even as the PRC becomes an ever more important trading partner for Taiwan, Taiwan's relative importance as a trading partner and source of investment for the PRC is diminishing. Se [...] |
2005-04-08 05:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV ETTC TW CH |
| 05TAIPEI1691 |
MORE "EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT" COULD AFFECT [...] (C) After the April 5 meeting of senior Chen administration and DPP officials on cross-Strait relations, the Taiwan government has announced a new emphasis on the "effective management" portion of its "active opening, effective management policy" (ref B). "Difficult to manage" policies will b [...] |
2005-04-08 05:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV TW CH |
| 05TAIPEI17 |
TAIWAN: 2005 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] The U.S. trade deficit with Taiwan was $14.2 billion in 2003, up $385 million from 2002. U.S. goods exports during the same period were $ 17.4 billion, down 5.1 percent from the previous year. Corresponding U.S. imports from Taiwan were $31.6 billion, down 1.7 percent. Taiwan is the 9th la [...] |
2005-01-04 06:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON KTDB TW KPRP |
| 05TAIPEI1705 |
TAIWAN CUSTOMS OFFICERS GET NINTENDO TRAINING [...] Following the disbanding of the Export Monitoring System (EMS) on December 31, 2004, entertainment software companies have been concerned that Taiwan Customs would be unable and unwilling to take action to protect intellectual property to the same standard as the EMS. At the urging of AIT, Ta [...] |
2005-04-08 07:38:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ECON TW IPR |
| 05TAIPEI1706 |
TAIWAN RESPONSE TO EXPORT CONTROL DEMARCHE [...] (C) Summary: AIT/T Acting Director Keegan delivered reftel demarche to Minister of Foreign Affairs Mark Chen and to Minister of Economic Affairs Ho Mei-yueh in separate meetings on April 7. Both Ministers expressed Taiwan's strong commitment to strengthen Taiwan's export controls. Minister M [...] |
2005-04-08 08:03:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PARM PINR PREL PTER TW |
| 05TAIPEI1708 |
USTR CALLS ON TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary: The USTR Director for Taiwan and Hong Kong met with government officials and US business representatives in Taipei to discuss ongoing bilateral trade concerns and the delay of proposed meetings under the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA). Eliminating barriers to ag [...] |
2005-04-08 08:46:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON KIPR EAGR TW IPR |
| 05TAIPEI1709 |
KMT DEFENDS RAPPROCHEMENT WITH CCP [...] (C) Summary: KMT Mainland Affairs Director Chang Jung-kung told AIT that the KMT and PRC are building a cooperative relationship that is based on their shared opposition to Taiwan independence. Chang stated that the KMT and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have a tacit agreement not to discuss [...] |
2005-04-08 11:16:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
| 05TAIPEI1724 |
KMT VICE CHAIR CHIANG SEEKS USG HELP IN FORGING [...] (C) Summary: KMT Vice Chairman P.K. Chiang urged the USG to intervene in public and private to urge the Chen administration and KMT leadership to cooperate on cross-Strait policy. Chiang, who provided the Director a readout of his recent trip to the Mainland, expressed concern that mounting d [...] |
2005-04-11 09:12:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH TW |
| 05TAIPEI1725 |
MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT MEDIA EXCHANGES, [...] Summary: Most major Taipei dailies started covering April 11 a Mainland Affairs Council's (MAC) announcement made the previous day that Taiwan would temporary ban China's Xinhua News Agency and the People's Daily from sending journalists to Taiwan. The pro-unification "United Daily News" was [...] |
2005-04-12 02:44:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI1750 |
KMT VICE CHAIR CHIANG PROVIDES READOUT OF BEIJING [...] (C) Summary: KMT Vice Chairman P.K. Chiang provided the AIT Director a readout April 11 of his late March visit to the Mainland. Chiang said that he was not involved in the planning for the visit and only learned about arrangements for senior level meetings with PRC officials in Beijing just [...] |
2005-04-12 09:14:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR CH TW |
| 05TAIPEI1751 |
TAIWAN ACTIVELY TACKLES TIP CHALLENGE [...] (SBU) Action request: see paragraph 10. 2. (SBU) Summary. Since AIT and G/TIP's November 2004 visit, Taiwan immigration authorities have demonstrated at both the Hsinchu and Ilan Detention Centers that they have adopted a comprehensive screening process for trafficking in persons (TIP) vic [...] |
2005-04-12 09:44:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV TW ASEC TIP |
| 05TAIPEI1752 |
PRC MEDIA BAN: MAC ADMITS MISTAKE BUT POLICY STANDS [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan officials are trying to contain negative political and media fallout from an April 10 announcement that Taipei would ban journalists from PRC-owned Xinhua and the People's Daily in retaliation for Beijing's enactment of the Anti-Secession Law. Mainland Affairs Council (MAC [...] |
2005-04-12 10:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR CH TW TIP |
| 05TAIPEI1753 |
CHINA WATCHERS' VIEWS ON KMT-CCP MEETING [...] (C) Summary: Senior China Watchers and former Taiwan government officials met with AIT on April 8 to discuss the late March KMT-CCP meeting and "Ten-point consensus." Despite the range of political views held by the academics -- from deep blue to medium green -- the China Watchers agreed that [...] |
2005-04-12 10:47:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
| 05TAIPEI1756 |
MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT MEDIA EXCHANGES, [...] Summary: Major Chinese-languages Taipei dailies started to comment April 12 on a Mainland Affairs Council's (MAC) announcement Sunday that Taiwan would temporary ban China's Xinhua News Agency and the People's Daily from sending journalists to Taiwan. The pro-independence "Liberty Times" edit [...] |
2005-04-12 23:44:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI1769 |
MEDIA REACTION: JAPANESE HISTORY TEXTBOOK [...] No summary [...] |
2005-04-13 08:28:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI1780 |
TAIWAN'S INADEQUATE EXPORT CONTROLS [...] (C) Summary: On April 8 Taiwan's Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT) gave AIT a report on its investigations into the She Hong Company and Eumatech Company machine tool shipments to Syria, as we had requested in refs C and D. The results of the BOFT investigations, while welcome, suggest that the [...] |
2005-04-14 08:56:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PARM PINR PREL PTER TW |
| 05TAIPEI1781 |
CHI MEI FOUNDER STATEMENT DICTATED BY BEIJING [...] (C) Chi Mei Group senior executives confirmed to AIT/K that the text of Chi Mei Founder Hsu Wen-lung's March 26 statement in support of "one China" had been dictated in full by Beijing authorities and Hsu had not requested nor negotiated any changes to the text. They said Mainland authoritie [...] |
2005-04-14 22:44:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV ETRD CH TW |
| 05TAIPEI1785 |
MEDIA REACTION: JAPANESE HISTORY TEXTBOOK [...] No summary [...] |
2005-04-15 01:35:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI1796 |
TAIWAN NEGLECTING CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan is neglecting Central and Eastern Europe in favor of traditional European Union (EU) members in the west. Despite substantial efforts by Central and Eastern European governments to promote ties with Taipei, Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) officials told AIT that [...] |
2005-04-15 05:23:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TW |
| 05TAIPEI1797 |
VICE PREMIER URGES U.S. TO STUDY FTA WITH TAIWAN [...] (C) In an April 13 meeting, Taiwan's Vice Premier Wu Rong-I told AIT/T Econ Section Chief that Premier Frank Hsieh would maintain most of the economic policies of his predecessor. He also outlined the government goals for financial reform, which focus on bank consolidation, and fiscal policy [...] |
2005-04-15 06:08:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL TW CH |
| 05TAIPEI1803 |
SPECIAL BUDGET REMAINS IN POLITICAL LIMBO [...] (C) Summary. Rising political discord among Taiwan political parties is complicating prospects for passage of the Defense Procurement Special Budget in the Legislative Yuan (LY). The political parties are largely focused inward on the domestic political debate and jockeying for short-term p [...] |
2005-04-15 09:36:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MASS MARR TW |
| 05TAIPEI1817 |
TAIWAN NEWSPAPER COMMENTS ON UPCOMING [...] No summary [...] |
2005-04-18 07:17:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI1821 |
MEDIA REACTION: U.S. AND ANTI-SECESSION LAW, [...] Summary: U.S. Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns' remarks before a Congressional hearing Thursday that the United States has spoken out very vigorously against the Anti-Secession Law have received wide coverage in the major Taipei dailies April 16. Both the centrist "China Times" and pro [...] |
2005-04-18 08:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI1826 |
CHEN SHUI-BIAN: SURPRISES AHEAD? [...] (C) Summary. The moderate "presidential" persona that President Chen Shui-bian has cultivated for the past four months masks a hard driving political tactician who continues to work backstage to destroy the opposition Pan-Blue majority coalition. The &reconciliation8 agenda of this moderate [...] |
2005-04-18 10:12:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
| 05TAIPEI1827 |
MUTUAL RECRIMINATIONS CONTINUE AHEAD OF LIEN [...] (C) Summary: President Chen Shui-bian and KMT Chairman Lien Chan used public fora in Taipei and Singapore to trade another round of public accusations. During an April 16 speech, President Chen asked mockingly if the KMT's upcoming talks with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were aimed at lo [...] |
2005-04-18 10:16:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR CH TW |
| 05TAIPEI1828 |
PFP LEGISLATOR EMBRACES KMT BANNER [...] (C) Summary: Popular People First Party (PFP) Legislator Chou Hsi-wei announced April 13 that he is rejoining the KMT and intends to participate in the KMT Taipei County Magistrate primary race. The PFP responded by announcing it would expel Chou. While Chou did not specify why he was leavi [...] |
2005-04-18 10:29:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
| 05TAIPEI1840 |
MEDIA REACTION: SINO-JAPANESE DISPUTES [...] No summary [...] |
2005-04-19 08:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 05TAIPEI1841 |
VATICAN ASKS TAIWAN NOT TO SEND SENIOR OFFICIALS [...] (C) National Security Council (NSC) Senior Advisor Lin Jin-chang told AIT April 19 that the Vatican Foreign Ministry has requested that Taiwan not send any ranking official to ceremonies to inaugurate the next Pope. Lin said the Vatican's list of "ranking officials" includes the President, Vi [...] |
2005-04-19 22:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TW VT |
| 05TAIPEI1849 |
SOONG ON SPECIAL BUDGET AND UPCOMING PRC VISIT [...] (C) Summary: In an April 19 meeting with the AIT Director, People First Party (PFP) Chairman James Soong said his party would allow the USD 18 billion Special Defense Budget to pass at the end of the current Legislative Yuan session in late May/early June despite lingering doubts over portion [...] |
2005-04-20 08:22:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PGOV PREL TW |
| 05TAIPEI1851 |
LOBBYING FOR BEEF: TECHNICAL EXPERTISE AND [...] (C) Summary. The fifteen-month odyssey to end the Taiwan ban on U.S. beef imports concluded April 16, with the formal announcement that the ban was lifted. The first beef shipments are expected to arrive in Taiwan by the end of April. Even at the last moment, when the battle appeared won, [...] |
2005-04-20 08:36:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL TW |
| 05TAIPEI1853 |
TAIWAN'S REVISED TECH PROTECTION BILL [...] (C) Summary and comment: At a Cabinet meeting on April 13, Taiwan's Executive Yuan (EY) passed a "Sensitive Technology Protection" bill that is a more comprehensive, tougher version of the "Technology Protection Bill" that has been stalled in the Legislative Yuan (LY) for over two years. Whi [...] |
2005-04-20 09:12:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PARM |