Taiwan

Magazine articles on politics and society in Taiwan.

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BusinessWeek November 29, 2004 Brian Bremner	Taiwan: Falling Into China's Embrace Beijing has toned down the rhetoric, but its economy's pull is irresistible. An independent Taiwan? The game is not going that way.
BusinessWeek September 20, 2004 Matt Kovac	Taking On Taiwan's Banks Can Kong Jaw-sheng reform a crowded, poorly performing sector? While he has the backing of Taiwan's president, resistance is building in Parliament and among labor unions that fear layoffs of bank workers.
BusinessWeek August 9, 2004 Stan Crock	Taiwan: Uncle Sam Wants You To Buy Arms The complex diplomatic dance involving Washington, Taipei, and Beijing gets trickier by the day. The tension will rise this fall when Taiwan's legislature votes on arms-purchase legislation.
BusinessWeek July 26, 2004	China-Singapore Ties Tense Over Taiwan Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong paid an unofficial visit on July 10 to Taiwan, just weeks before his assumption of the city-state's premiership
BusinessWeek April 5, 2004 Bruce Einhorn	Showdown In Taiwan As the contested election causes turmoil, the economy will suffer -- and the impact will be felt around the globe
BusinessWeek March 22, 2004 Bruce Einhorn	Will Taiwan Vote To Cool Down Tensions? It's one of the roughest presidential campaigns Taiwan has ever seen. Wild accusations of everything from corruption to wife-beating are flying, as incumbent President Chen Shui-bian faces a challenge from opposition candidate Lien Chan, chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT), the party that dominated the island's politics until Chen's election four years ago
BusinessWeek October 6, 2003 Bruce Einhorn	Taiwan's Climb Up the Tech Ladder It's becoming a center for R&D as well as manufacturing
PC Magazine October 1, 2003 Alan Cohen	Smart Cards, Smarter Health Care Case study for Taiwan's 22 million citizens, Java cards are saving money and clamping down on fraud.
BusinessWeek September 22, 2003 Bruce Einhorn	How Long Will Beijing Keep Playing It Cool on Taiwan? The Chinese leadership does not want to give any more ammunition to Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian, the Beijing critic who has used Hong Kong's civil-rights battle to win support for his reelection bid next March.
Salon.com April 10, 2001 Richard Blow	Protest chic goes global Latter-day hippies and martial arts masters form an odd coalition in Taiwan to promote "global peace." But something is lost in the translation...
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