Ready For Talks With Beijing: Taiwan
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Taipei, Oct. 10 (NNN): Taiwan&#39;s President Chen Shui-bian has said he is ready for talks with communist China on defusing military tension between the two countries.
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Japan's new leader Shinzo Abe is ready to hold talks with China and South Korea at any time, a spokesman says.
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The United States and China held their first high-level talks on Beijing's proposed law aimed at preventing Taiwan from becoming independent.
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China rejected Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian&#39;s call for talks, saying he must first acknowledge that Taiwan and China are part of one country, the China Daily reported, citing government researchers it didn&#39;t identify.
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Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian proposed  on Tuesday to define direct transport links with rival China as  cross-Strait routes, in a bid to bypass a longstanding  political dispute, but Beijing is likely to ignore him.
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In opening remarks to a conference held last weekend on &quot;Challenges and Prospects of Democratization in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong,&quot; President Chen Shui-bian asserted that the most important issue for the cross-strait relationship is not &quot;the timetable
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China's top negotiator with Taiwan  aims to send senior envoys to attend his counterpart's funeral,  the state Xinhua news agency said Sunday, a day after the  rivals marked their first non-stop flights in more than 55  years.
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Taiwan will top the agenda when US Secretary of State Colin Powell visits Beijing, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said yesterday, calling for Washington to end arms sales to the self-ruled island.
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Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian has called on Beijing to return to a 1992 agreement in Hong Kong as the basis for dialogue to ease cross-strait tensions.
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Taiwan&#39;s president, Chen Shui-bian, has called for a &quot;new code of conduct&quot; with mainland China. Taiwan&#39;s leader is asking for direct talks with Beijing on arms control and ways to avoid military confrontation.
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Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian said he  will make an important policy statement on relations with  arch-foe China in his National Day address on Oct. 10.
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President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan, in a conciliatory gesture aimed at China&#39;s newly consolidated leadership, proposed a fresh start Sunday on long-suspended talks
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Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian says China's leadership changes are  unlikely to signal a big policy shift.
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Taiwan's leader on Saturday promised to make an "important announcement" in his National Day speech that will improve icy relations with rival China and strengthen ties with the United States &#151; the island's most important friend.
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China agreed on Monday to direct  charter flights with Taiwan during the Lunar New Year holiday  in February, visiting opposition legislators from the island  said.
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WASHINGTON, Oct 28  - US Secretary of State Colin Powell underlined Thursday the US commitment to defend Taiwan and respect for the one-China policy, during talks with China&#39;s visiting military chief.
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Taiwan&#39;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&#39;t met since the Communists