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| Taiwan victor promises China ties |
| 2008-03-23 |
| Taiwan's newly-elected president has pledged to establish better economic and political ties with China. But there's a catch... Ma Ying-jeou said he would like to work towards a peace treaty with Beijing, but would only do so if China removed missiles pointed at Taiwan. Maybe the rockets could be used to terrorize rowdy college kids holding demonstrations. He was speaking after a comfortable victory over Frank Hsieh of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party. Official results gave Mr Ma an advantage of nearly 17 percentage points over Mr Hsieh. He polled 58.45%, with Mr Hsieh getting 41.55%, on a turnout of 76%. Do we need a recount? Are there any chads hanging? Mr Ma, of the Kuomintang party, had stood on a platform of economic reform and improving relations with China. Speaking to reporters after the vote, he said that a peace treaty with China would not take priority over economic normalisation. Severely snipped. I don't know how to do a page 49 thing. Or if I am even able to. |
| Posted by:Free Radical |
| #1 Ma has his work cut out for him - whole generations of mainland Chin had been taught by the CCCC since 1949, now CPC, that TAIWAN is "Forever Part of China", that it will NOT + NEVER receive any kind of formal independence, plus that pragmatically China needs Taiwan for MIL-TRADE, WARM-WATER PORT(S) ENTRY INTO WESTPAC. Ditto in many aspects for China vv NORTH KOREA. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-03-23 20:27 |