Taiwan, China Artists Breach Political Divide
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QUEMOY, Taiwan  - In an abandoned Cold War bomb  shelter on Taiwan's frontline island of Quemoy, the music of  Bach and Beethoven jars with the boom and screech of a piano  being smashed to bits.
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The exchange of historic flights between  China and Taiwan, a rare Beijing offer to restart stalled talks  and a private visit by senior Chinese officials all point to a  thaw in tensions in one of Asia's most dangerous hot spots.
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China invoked late leader Deng Xiaoping  on Saturday in its campaign to recover Taiwan, lauding his  proposal to recover the island by a "one country, two systems"  formula but saying he never gave up the threat of force.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan  - Lee Yen-chen considers herself a  Taiwan-born Chinese, studies every dynasty in China's  5,000-year history and fantasizes about the grand landscape she  has never visited on the other side of the Taiwan Strait.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan&#39;s opposition scored a surprise victory in legislative elections Saturday, a development expected to blunt President Chen Shui-Bian&#39;s pro-independence agenda and ease fears in Beijing.
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The people of Taiwan Province were called on Monday to join with their mainland compatriots in the fight to safeguard national unity and counter Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian&#39;s splittist moves.
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Indian and Western artistes collaborate with each other.
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Chinese government officials who came to Washington this week for economic talks got an extra lesson over the past two days in the complexities of America's divided government.
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Taiwan and China have tentatively reached an agreement to let the 2008 Beijing Olympics torch pass through Taipei, which rejected the emblem in April for political reasons, an official said on Friday.
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China faces an intractable problem in  dealing with Taiwan'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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Taiwan&#39;s pro-independence parties suffered an upset defeat in legislative elections Saturday, a result sure to please Chinese leaders who regard the island as part of the mainland.
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The statement by US Secretary of State Colin Powell that &quot;[Taiwan] does not enjoy sovereignty as a nation,&quot; and his call for a peaceful unification between Taiwan and China have stirred up heavy political crossfire in Taipei.
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Taiwan's National Palace Museum displays Chinese art and artifacts online.
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Taiwan's opposition was basking in the support it garnered at parliamentary elections for its pledges to improve relations with China and remove fears of a cross-strait war.
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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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TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan is holding key elections that could increase tensions even further with mainland China. President Chen Shui-bian has urged voters to make history on Saturday by giving his party and
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TAIZHOU, China  - They were born just a few kilometers from each other, they both rose to the pinnacle of the state, yet as elderly men their pride and ambition keep them coldly distant on China's political stage.