Taiwan tries to hold onto allies
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Taiwan's foreign minister ordered "extreme precautions" be taken Thursday to hold on to the island's allies in Latin America after Costa Rica switched diplomatic relations to political rival China, further isolating the Taipei government.
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Taiwan&#39;s President Chen Shui-bian on Friday stepped up rhetoric pushing for a referendum on seeking United Nations membership for the island under the name &quot;Taiwan,&quot; despite fresh warnings from Beijing and Washington.
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Taiwan is considering applying to join the United Nations under the island's own name, a move that China would see as a provocative declaration of independence by a renegade province.
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Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian (é³æ°´æ) said yesterday a controversial arms deal was part of the government&#39;s attempts to deter any attempt by rival China to invade the island.
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&quot;Chen Shui-bian, the Taiwanese president, has this week launched a diplomatic offensive to improve the island&#39;s uneasy relations with the Chinese mainland.
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The United States urged Taiwan to open direct transportation and business links with China despite lingering hostility across the strait.
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About 250,000 people demonstrated in two Taiwan cities on Saturday to back the island's doomed efforts at securing United Nations membership, a move condemned by rival Beijing and rejected by ally Washington.
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Taiwan is to push ahead with plans for a referendum on joining the United Nations under its own name despite U.S. and Chinese objections, a ruling party official said on Wednesday.
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A Chinese military expert has urged Taiwan's military to resist moves towards independence, pressing the island's soldiers to "join hands" with mainland forces to avoid possible war.
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Taiwan vowed to continue its fight to join the United Nations despite its 12th consecutive failure to gain a seat due to opposition from rival China.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan, July 8 -- The news came as a shock to many Taiwanese. After 63 years as a faithful ally of this self-ruled island, Costa Rica was switching diplomatic relations to mainland China, acknowledging that money was the big lure.
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Several Central American countries and the Dominican Republic have pledged to support Taiwan in its bid to join the United Nations, officials said Thursday.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan - 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...
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China has threatened to crush Taiwan at any cost if the island declares independence. The belligerent rhetoric is at the center of a new national defense policy.
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Taipei, Dec. 28 (CNA) Taiwan is the prime motivator behind the military buildup in mainland China, an official of the Ministry of National Defense maintained Tuesday.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan, Dec. 11 -- Taiwanese voted Saturday not to give President Chen Shui-bian the legislative majority he had sought in a hard-fought campaign as reinforcement for his leadership and endorsement of his plans to edge the self-ruled island closer to independence.
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Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian said Sunday a controversial arms deal was part of the government&#39;s attempts to deter any attempt by rival China to invade the island.