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...campaign ahead of Taiwan's march 20 presidential election, incumbent Chen Shui-bian has gone far beyond his predecessors in saying the island is an autonomous nation, not a breakaway province destined to be reunited with China. In addition, Chen has angered Beijing by planning to hold a controversial referendum on cross-strait issues on election day. In contrast, the main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), argues that warmer relations with China will benefit Taiwan's economy. Chen explained his stance last week to TIME's Executive Editor for Asia, Anthony Spaeth, and reporters Andrew Perrin and Joyce Huang...
...CYPRUS Reviving hopes of an end to the island's 30-year division, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan invited Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders to New York City for new talks this week. Officials from both sides tentatively agreed to attend. Annan wants each side to hold a referendum on his reunification plan in April, allowing a unified Cyprus to join...
Jahncke portrays his candidacy as a referendum that will bring together an anti-war vote that would otherwise be split among the Democratic candidates...
...Power Politics in Taiwan Your report on Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian's plan for a referendum on China's missiles and hints of independence was off the mark with regard to the political reality in Taiwan [Dec. 15]. You underestimated the judgment of the Taiwanese by describing Chen as a manipulative politician. In my view, he is a defender of human rights and democracy. I cherish Taiwan's open and sometimes rowdy democracy, which is in contrast to the previous, autocratic regime. Our society is maturing politically as it faces all kinds of daily challenges. The pace of progress...
...obsessed by foreign policy. It was doubly odd because Iraq has been Dean's signature issue. He would probably be an asterisk today if he hadn't stepped out from the pack and opposed the war. And the election of 2004 is bound to be, in the end, a referendum on George W. Bush's historic pre-emptive decision to route the war on terrorism through Baghdad...