China's front line appears to brush off Taiwan polls
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Just over a decade ago, China  lobbed missiles into waters near Taiwan in an attempt to  influence the island's presidential election. Troops were  mobilized and fighter jets readied.
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China spurned Taiwan President Chen Shui-bianâs peace overtures on Wednesday and said that his calls for easing tensions were false.
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Taiwan played down on Thursday remarks  by a senior U.S. official who described the island as the  biggest land mine in Sino-U.S. ties and said Washington was not  required to come to Taiwan's defense if attacked by China.
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The people of Taiwan are voting to choose a new parliament in a ballot that could shape its future relations with China.
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China&#39;s legislature has started discussing a proposed &quot;anti-secession law&quot; aimed at preventing Taiwan from declaring formal independence.
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China offered a measured response on Wednesday to Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian&#39;s party suffering an election setback over the weekend, but warned that his push for formal independence would exacerbate tensions.
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Taiwan said on Saturday it regretted  U.S. comments criticizing the island's planned referendum on  U.N. membership and hinted that Washington should not to give  in to pressure from China on the matter.
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Voters in Taiwan went to the polls Saturday to choose a new parliament, with analysts predicting a win for the opposition nationalists over the party of independence-leaning President Chen Shui-bian.
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Taiwan's elections revealed an unexpected groundswell of support for the Independence Party, dashing hopes for reconciliation with the Mainland.
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China has submitted a draft law it says is aimed at peaceful reunification with Taiwan, but which the island&#39;s residents and the United States fear could ratchet up tensions across the Strait.
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The Olympic torch will not pass through Taiwan as it makes its way to Beijing for the 2008 Summer Games, officials said Friday, after Taiwanese authorities turned down Chinese proposals on a route because they said it threatened the island's sovereignty.
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Mayoral elections in Taiwan's two biggest cities next month will provide a new, stern test for the island's beleaguered ruling party even though President Chen Shui-bian has survived three attempts in parliament to oust him.
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Taiwan's leader used his National Day speech Sunday to urge China to begin peace talks so the two rivals can avoid war. Chinese and Taiwanese leaders haven't met since the Communists took over China in 1949 and Taiwan began resisting the mainland's rule. China insists that Taiwan is a Chinese province and has threatened to attack if it refuses to unify eventually.
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Taiwan voted on Saturday in legislative  elections in which pro-independence President Chen Shui-bian  hopes to wrest control of parliament from an opposition that is  more conciliatory toward China.
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Taiwan will hold two separate votes on the island's U.N. membership bid on March 22, the same day as the presidential poll, an election commission official said Friday.
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Taiwan voters went to the polls to pick a new parliament on Saturday in an election viewed as a referendum on pro-independence President Chen Shui-bian&#39;s policy toward arch-rival China.
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China's legislature began deliberating a proposed "anti-secession law" aimed at preventing Taiwan from declaring formal independence, the Xinhua news agency said.