Word: taipei
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even in the short run Beijing is intensifying pressure, doing its best to influence the coming election and stifle Taiwan's efforts to increase its international standing. During the cold war, the government in Taipei officially agreed with Beijing that there was only one China and Taiwan was part of it. Now Lee, a native-born Taiwanese, favors a kind of peaceful coexistence and prolonged status quo. Three years ago, Taiwan said it intended to rejoin the U.N. "as soon as possible," not as China, but as an entity with as much legitimacy as, say, South Korea. Last month Senegal...
MORE RELIABLY THAN ANY MARKET ANALYST, EVERY STEP and misstep in the undiplomatic dance between Taiwan and Beijing can foretell major moves in the Taipei stock exchange. Last week, when the Hong Kong press reported that Chinese Premier Li Peng would announce a timetable for reunification in a key speech, share prices tumbled 3.5%, and the Taiwan dollar took a beating. The next day, when Li made no mention of this schedule, prices rebounded on a wave of buying...
...evening's outset, David T. Lee, director-general of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Boston, said he was glad his organization played a role in sponsoring the celebration of Chinese culture...
Anne Palmers, a departmental administrator, said that Witzel is in Taipei and that she does not have phone numbers where he can be reached...
...city their cultural and intellectual wellspring. The challenge is to save it from its own creative destruction. In the frenzy to modernize the capital of what Vietnam's leaders hope will be Asia's next economic ``tiger,'' Hanoi is beginning to take on the more disturbing qualities of Bangkok, Taipei or Seoul. Historic shop houses and old temples are being pulled down to make way for chrome-and-glass hotels and offices--monuments to raw capitalism. Where the leafy streets were once blessedly quiet, they now reverberate with the rumble of bulldozers and the honking of car horns. Bicycles...