2005.5.9=1[#129]:4703.4.2[#60+30/60]: Ceremony decided, so our schedules also.[[China Has Made It!? #10003]] 1)Taiwan Oppositions in China. 2)Latin Am

Wet cloudy to partly sun: Up 6:20, sort 2 bags of documents, mostly about Bk of Am, drive ma to Bk of Am, then leave to US Bk, to home, rich lunch & emails, Lung back, now 5:15pm emails, mails & blog here for Latin American topic. Then finally THE topic of "1)", from [W&P] M's email, then my answer, under "China Has Made It!? #10003] Digest Number 4855": beginning part: """ [Tsai 05.5.9=1 #1] That is the real thing here, I'm afraid. Let me check after I had checked some latest news I could get online following my answer here to your statement at the end: "" You guys have the Israeli/South African nuclear bomb design that the Israelis tested in an airburst over the South Atlantic which set off the old Vela Hotel sensors. The design works. It might be time to publically test a delivery system and then do an open test of one of the warheads. The nukes won't give you an outright win, but it might give you a standoff that would be to your advantage. "" No, I can't find it. What would be the best online sources? My worry politically now is that President Chen attacked former Pres. Lee as he, himself is pursuing Pres. Lee' line now, Pres. Lee has changed as he is no longer the president. I think many of us consider the former Pres. Lee as our Washington, that's why Pres. Chen is stll running his show. But, it's not very good tor the current president to attack one's Washington. """ Now we know about the ceremony, our schedules. I'm going back to o.h., now 8:05pm, and 8-9pm "Stairway to Heaven" is so good as almost massive Korean dramas we watch day after day for 1-2 years. O.h., mom also (usually earlier than me) bed 11:50. 1) Taiwan Oppositions in China: http://tinyurl.com/bsvuc (1) "Taiwan opposition leader in China", BBC News, Tuesday, 26 April, 2005, 10:56 GMT 11:56 UK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4482617.stm (2) "EU welcomes talks between China, Taiwanese opposition": http://www.eubusiness.com/afp/050429114046.y8p9i8hz (3) Taiwan reacts, 1: Premier, IrelandOn-Line, 09/05/2005 - 12:37:32: http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=142405848&p=y4z4x6554 "Taiwan Premier: Worst of Tension Over", Sci-Tech Today, Posted May 9, 2005 10:57AM: http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/story.xhtml?story_id=021002D3MQ8O (4) Taiwan Reacts, 2: President Chen: "China trying to interfere in NA election: Chen", 2005/5/9, The China Post staff: http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/detail.asp?ID=62155&GRP=B "" President Chen Shui-bian said yesterday that he felt that the ongoing "China fever" signals that Beijing has already started interfering with Taiwan's upcoming National Assembly (NA) elections. In an exclusive long interview with Sanlih TV channel from 9 to 11 p.m., Chen alleged that the successive visits of two opposition leaders to China are timed to win more ballots for their candidates in the NA elections on Saturday. The visits to Beijing by Kuomintang (KMT) Chairman Lien Chan and People First Party (PFP) Chairman James Soong as well as the bloody violence at the Chiang Kai-shek International Airport have dominated the Taiwan media in recent weeks. Recently public opinion polls gave a big lift of the support for the KMT at the expense of Chen's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Chen's personal popularity also tumbled, and some of his own party want him to quit the party if he wants to be "the president of all people." The TV interview came on heels of a damage control meeting held by Chen with DPP leaders, including elected local government chiefs. Chen was seeking to use the in-depth interview to stage a turnaround. He will continue the interview tonight. Chen agreed with the interviewer's statement that the defeat of DPP candidates in the elections would be a victory of China. Taiwan's relations with China have always been among the major issues in Taiwan elections. He criticized Lien for his statement that the KMT will team up with the Chinese Communist Party to contain the Taiwan independence movement on the island. Chen said the statement was the biggest failure made by Lien during his trip to China. Chen also emphasized his intention to continue the policy of reconciliation within Taiwan and with China. He severely blasted Taiwan politicians who attempted to use ethnic differences for their personal political gains. Chen chose to use the dialect used by the majority of Taiwan residents whose ancestors emigrated to the island from southern Fujian province in China. The president stressed that his ruling party will also maintain the policies of cutting the number of seats in the parliament by half and abolishing the NA once and for all by allowing people to direct assert their rights via referendums. The public are expected to stay glued to their TV sets for the second part of the interview with Chen, who is expected to use the opportunity to clear recent misunderstandings about his own policies and rally support for DPP candidates. "" (5) US Reacts: 1. "Taiwan welcomes Bush statements on China-Taiwan contacts?" (updated PM 2:06), 05/5/6, TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP): http://www.chinapost.com.tw/i_latestdetail.asp?id=28026 "" Taiwan on Friday welcomed a call by U.S. President George W. Bush for China to reach out to the island's elected leaders, only hours after a second Taiwanese opposition chief began a groundbreaking visit to the mainland. In a phone conversation Thursday, Bush urged Chinese President Hu Jintao "to continue working on ways to reach out to President Chen (Shui-bian) as the duly elected leader of Taiwan," the White House said. "" 2. "Zoellick urges China to deal with elected gov't", 2005/5/6, By Teresa Cerojano MANILA, Philippines, AP: http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/detail.asp?GRP=D&id=62035 "" America's No. 2 diplomat urged China Thursday to deal directly with the elected government of Taiwan, which the communist country considers a renegade province and has threatened with war if it tries to establish permanent independence. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick said the recent and ongoing visits by Taiwanese opposition leaders to China were a positive development in easing tensions between the two sides. But he cautioned that Beijing may be trying to "foster division in Taiwan" by welcoming opposition leaders who take a softer line on reunification with China than Taiwan's pro-independence President Chen Shui-bian. "That's why it's important, obviously, for Beijing to deal with the elected government as well," Zoellick told The Associated Press. "" (6) Elan Journo reacts: "Betraying the Real Freedom Fighters", by Elan Journo; May 9, 2005: http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/j/journo/2005/journo050905.htm "" It is a gross injustice that America endorses a sovereign Palestinian state--but shuns Taiwan’s claim to independence. "" 2) Latin American Trouble: (1) "Washington Loses Control of the O.A.S.", Report Drafted By Dr. Michael A. Weinstein [[ "Professor of Political Science at Purdue University. He has been the recipient of Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships and is the author of 21 books and numerous scholarly and analytical articles in the fields of general political science and political theory. His analyses have been printed in many publications, and he has been interviewed on programs such as Chicago's National Public Radio.;; ]]; PINR, 09 May 2005: http://www.pinr.com/ "" With the election on May 2 of Chile's former interior minister Jose Miguel Insulza to the post of secretary general of the Organization of American States (O.A.S.), that alliance will, for the first time since its founding in 1948, have a chief executive who is not the preferred choice of the United States. "" (2) ''Cycle of Instability in the Andes: Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru'', Report Drafted By Dr. Michael A. Weinstein, PINR, 31 January 2005: http://www.pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=262 "" The core Andean states -- Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru -- form the most politically unstable region in South America today. Political instability is no stranger to the Andes -- the three states in the heart of the mountains have long histories of veering from military rule to authoritarian and quasi-democratic civilian governments, and have political cultures that encourage direct extra-legal action as a social counterbalance to formal institutional and constitutional processes. At present, each of the Andean states is in the throes of a political crisis. The immediate causes of the crises are local and the forms they take are different, yet they express the same basic and persistent social tensions, making their simultaneous occurrence an indication of region-wide problems rather than simply a coincidence. "" (3) ''Venezuela's Hugo Chavez Makes His Bid for a Bolivarian Revolution'', Report Drafted By Dr. Michael A. Weinstein, PINR, 04 April 2005: http://www.pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=285 "" Throughout the first three months of 2005, the chronic verbal jousting between Washington and Venezuela's "populist" regime led by President Hugo Chavez ratcheted up in intensity, with Chavez threatening to cut off oil exports to the United States if Washington moved to destabilize his rule, and Washington declaring that it was pursuing a policy to "contain" him. ""