China's influence is a problem for Taiwan-EU ties
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Wrapping up a confidential weeklong visit to several European countries, including France, Germany and Belgium, Wu encouraged government officials to intensify communication with European governments in order ...
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Armed conflict may be unavoidable if  Taiwan keeps provoking China and pushing for independence, one  of Beijing's top Taiwan policy-makers said on Monday, but he  spelt out a condition for reopening dialogue.
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Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's push  for independence is exacerbating tensions with China, a Chinese  government spokesman said on Wednesday in the first official  reaction to Chen's party suffering a weekend election setback.
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By Richard McGregor in Shanghai and Caroline Gluck in Taipei. China said yesterday its armed forces had a &quot;sacred responsibility&quot; to crush moves towards independence by Taiwan, whatever the cost, and described relations with the island as &quot;grim&quot;.
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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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Its largesse may still help prop up the economies of some of the continent's poorest countries but Taiwan is being slowly squeezed out of Africa as mainland China's presence grows ever stronger.
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China on Tuesday branded Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian a "schemer" after the United Nations rejected Taiwan's bid to join the world body, a state news agency reported.
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Chinese officials rebuffed Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's suggestion that they use a possibly conciliatory speech by Taiwan's president, Chen Shui-bian, to restart cross-strait discussions, telling him in strong terms Monday that they are not impressed by Chen's words and are worried about his actions.
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On the face it, relations between the European Union and China could not be rosier as the leaders of the two powers prepare to meet in The Hague Wednesday.
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China faces an intractable problem in dealing with Taiwan&#39;s independence ambitions and is almost certainly counting on Washington to rein in the island after legislative elections this weekend, analysts in Beijing say.
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A theory has emerged in discussion on cross-strait relations, which claims that the whole problem has nothing to do with China and is really all President Chen Shui-bian&#39;s (é³æ°´æ) fault.
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The old Chinese saying &quot;The tree prefers to be still, but the wind will not stop&quot; is true of the current relations between the mainland and Taiwan.
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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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Relations between China and Taiwan are grim and the mainland will crush any major moves toward independence by the island no matter what the cost, the government said in a policy paper on national defense on Monday.
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If the Bush Administration is truly concerned about maintaining the âstatus quoâ in the Taiwan Strait, it must treat Chinaâs new propaganda campaign for an âanti-secession lawâ as a dangerous escalation of tensions.
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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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PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE EDITOR&#39;S NOTE: The economies of the US and China are simply too intertwined for the United States to support Taiwanese calls for independence, writes PNS contributor George Koo, an international business consultant and frequent