http://www.cdnews.com.tw 2008-11-08 12:37:02
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「江陳會」吸引全球的關注，新聞局統計，到11月7號為止，國際媒體所作出的相關報導共有408篇，大部分的國際媒體都對「江陳會」都持正面肯定的態度，認為已經開創了兩岸和平互動的新局面。
中廣新聞八日新聞報導，雖然有部分民眾質疑「江陳會」出賣國家主權，不過國際媒體顯然不是這麼看，根據新聞局的統計，到11月7日為止，計有 40個國家、220家重要媒體報導在台北舉行的江陳會，相關報導共有408篇，事實陳述類的占了382篇，除了其中有15篇是報導群眾衝突外，其他都是江 陳會談、四項協議與馬陳會等內容，另外還有26篇是屬於評論性的文章。新聞局長史亞平：『比較暴力的活動，是負面的報導。而評析江陳會成果的26篇報導裡 面，都是持正面肯定的立場，很多媒體都認為說，這是兩岸擱置歧見、簽訂歷史性的協議，結束長達60年的對立，降低兩岸軍事衝突的危險，這次簽了四個協議， 深化了雙方的經貿關係。馬總統對中國大陸展開和解政策，開創兩岸和平的新局面。』
權威國際媒體如華爾街日報，說江陳會的最大意義是達成兩岸和解，兩岸達成和平，馬總統的功不可沒；華盛頓郵報則說，江陳會的意義對兩岸而言，其 重大的程度是等同於美國總統大選，日本富士經商情報是指出，江陳會獲得改岸兩岸關係的重大進展，馬總統以不主張台獨的低調外交，更取得了重要盟友美國的信任。
Friday, November 7, 2008; Page A13
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Nov. 6 -- Marking the highest-level contact between China and Taiwan's government in 60 years, Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou met briefly with Beijing's most senior envoy for Taiwan, Chen Yunlin, on Thursday at a government guesthouse as thousands of protesters loudly shouted anti-China slogans outside.
The historic meeting was a sign of detente in one of Asia's longest-running disputes. Military tensions have run high since 1949, when the Nationalists led by Chiang Kai-shek lost the Chinese civil war and fled to Taiwan. Beijing has since insisted that Taiwan is a renegade province, to be brought under Chinese control by military force if necessary. It has refused to recognize the Nationalists' government, which democratically rules Taiwan. The United States, the island's main military supplier, has pledged to defend Taiwan from an unprovoked attack.
But Chen's willingness to make contact with Ma, a Nationalist, indicated that Beijing is softening its position toward Taiwan, analysts said.
"The two sides of the Taiwan Strait have their differences and challenges, especially regarding Taiwan's security and international status," Ma said Thursday during the open meeting. But he added that he hoped the two sides could resolve their differences by not denying the other's existence and by working for peace.
This infuriated the independence protesters outside, who were creating a din that could be heard miles away by blowing horns, banging gongs and shouting slogans. Many interpreted Ma's acceptance of Chen's treatment as surrender.
"Ma's not acting like a president, he's acting like a lackey of a Chinese emperor," said Lai Ho-an, a middle-aged man wearing a yellow ribbon around his head emblazoned with the slogan "Taiwan my country."
Groups of protesters, many of them supporters of the opposition, pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party, later battled with riot police as they tried to push down barbed-wire barricades blocking streets.
The number of protesters -- many waving green flags and carrying placards with slogans such as "Communist bandit, get out of Taiwan" -- swelled in the late afternoon to 200,000, an opposition party official said. Police would not give a crowd estimate.
Vancouver Sun: Detentions in Taiwan spark fears of return to authoritarian approach
| Vancouver Sun |
Friday, November 07, 2008
Hopes of a new era that accompanied the election of Ma Ying-jeou as president of Taiwan in March are being eroded by allegations his Kuomintang administration is reverting to authoritarian tactics used when it ruled the island under one-party martial law for 40 years.
At least seven senior members of the Democratic Progressive Party administration of former president Chen Shui-bian are being held under draconian "investigative detention" laws that allow prosecutors to hold suspects for up to four months without charge.
Prosecutors claim they believe the detained officials have been involved in corruption and might destroy evidence if not imprisoned.
But DPP leaders and other observers accuse the new Kuomintang administration of using the judicial system to purge the political stage of its opponents, smearing the reputations of the detained DPP officials by leaking unsupported allegations to the media, and using the detentions to try to extract confessions.
Those detained include a former senior official in Chen's office, the former interior minister Yu Cheng-hsien, former deputy prime minister Chiou I-jen, the former deputy environment minister Dr. James Lee, two DPP municipal officials and a county magistrate.
Former president Chen himself is under investigation for allegedly misusing the equivalent of just over $500,000 from a special fund and his wife, Wu Shu-jen, is on trial for the same offence.
The allegations against Ma and his Kuomintang administration have come to a head during the four-day visit to Taiwan of Chen Yunlin, the head of China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS).
Chen is the most senior envoy from Beijing to visit Taiwan since 1949 when the island became an exile haven for the Kuomintang after its defeat by the communists in China's civil war.
Chen and his Taiwanese counterpart, Chiang Pin-kung, signed a series of agreements allowing direct flights and shipping between Taiwan and China, linked postal services and regulations governing food safety.
Ma and his administration insist the agreements will help boost Taiwan's economy and will not undermine the island's sovereignty as an independent nation.
But opponents such as the new leader of the DPP, Tsai Ing-wen, say Ma and his coterie of influential senior Kuomintang officials, who were mostly born in China, have been too ready to make concessions because they are prepared to surrender the island's sovereignty to Beijing.
Those suspicious of the intentions of Ma and his influential mentors such as former Kuomintang leader Lien Chan and James Soong, both of whom have developed close ties to Beijing, have watched intensely every nuance of the visit of ARATS head Chen.
There were instant rebuttals in the media when, in preparation for the visit, Ma referred to Taiwan not as an independent state, but as a "region" and an "area."
That opposition intensified when no Taiwanese national flags were flown around the hotel where the 60-member Chinese delegation stayed and police confiscated the flags from demonstrators on the streets outside.
The heavy security around Chen's visit has fuelled concerns on Taiwan that the Kuomintang is returning to the authoritarian methods of one-party rule and martial law it was forced to abandon in the late 1980s under pressure from the public and its principal ally, the United States.
On Wednesday a coalition of human rights, judicial reform and social movement organizations accused the Kuomintang of "pulling Taiwan's human rights standards down to the level of the People's Republic of China." The organization cited suppression of protests during the Chen visit, as well as the detention of the DPP officials.
Similar criticism came from a group of 20 leading American, Canadian and Australian experts on China and Taiwan.
The group, which included Washington's former de facto ambassador to Taipei, Nat Bellocchi, said the recent acts by the Ma administration resembled "the unfair and unjust procedures practised during the dark days of martial law."
jmanthorpe@vancouversun.com
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