Taiwan ex-communist on long march for independence
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Taiwan-born Su Beng trained assiduously under Chairman Mao Zedong 60 years ago to be a communist, shunning marriage and refusing to have children so he could follow the Chinese revolution.
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Former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui strongly defended his visit to a Tokyo war shrine that had angered Beijing and clouded Sino-Japanese ties, and repeated his view that the self-ruled island was independent.
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The leaders of Taiwan's campaign to oust embattled President Chen Shui-bian said they were planning a huge rally for the upcoming National Day.
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Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian and his Democratic Progressive Party should give up on the Taiwan ``independence&#39;&#39; movement, a senior Chinese official said.
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BEIJING: China&#39;s ruling Communist Party has issued a lengthy policy paper on way to reverse its waning popular support, citing corruption and &quot;hostile forces&quot; as issues that could end its 55-year grip on power.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledged to  reunify the mainland with the island of Taiwan, vowing to  contain forces intent on independence for the island to ensure  the sacred goal of national unity.
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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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Bee Staff Writer. Today, Carl Lai, a plant scientist from Sacramento, will vote in Taipei on the future of Taiwan, along with roughly 4,000 other Taiwanese from California.
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China&#39;s former Communist Party chief and president, Jiang Zemin, plans to leave government, resigning from his last official position.
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Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian has reiterated his pledges to push for a new constitution and United Nations membership, moves that are likely to anger China.
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HONG KONGâChina&#39;s Communist Party has completed its first peaceful transfer of power, announcing the retirement yesterday of Jiang Zemin as chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission.
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Zhao Ziyang, the former general secretary of China's Communist Party, lived under house arrest for 15 years, not far from the government offices where he once led China.
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Taiwan is considering applying to join the United Nations under the island&#39;s own name, a move that China would see as a provocative declaration of independence by a renegade province.
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Thousands of Taiwanese march through the capital's streets demanding President Chen Shui-bian resign.
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Reviled by China as a "splittist" fit only for the "dustbin of history", former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui has shaken up the island's political scene by distancing himself from the pro-independence camp, analysts say.
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Rough waters lie ahead for Taiwan in 2005, as President Chen Shui-bian seems determined to use his second term in office to extricate the island from its unstable and delusory connection to China.
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(CPOD) Nov. 16, 2004 - Taiwanese adults remain divided about their future, according to a poll by United Daily News. 21 per cent of respondents would choose &quot;rapid&quot; independence from China, while 10 per