The United States has been supplying Taiwan with arms under the Taiwan Relations Act, which Congress approved in 1979 and which mandates that the United States supply weapons that Taiwan could use to fend off an attack by mainland Chinese forces.
While the Taiwan media claims that Mr. Chen's comments in recent days -- "Taiwan must follow its own road," there's "one country on each side" of the strait, "a popular referendum on the future of Taiwan is necessary" -- were off the cuff, I am sure he had given serious thought to each phrase.
One unidentified man died after being swept off a beach in the eastern county of Hualien late Thursday and a soldier on an island in the Taiwan Strait fell into the sea while fishing.
We owe the impressive structure to the Taiwan Tower International Competition.
Data were obtained from the Taiwan National health Insurance Research Database.
Taiwan is in the Taiwan Time Zone, which operates 8 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT +8 00).
A report from August 2011 saw Apple kick-off trial production with the Taiwan-based processor foundry, and there were rumblings that TSMC would get a much larger share of Apple's processor business back in November.
The Taiwan-born designer pulled off the unthinkable, by creating Michelle Obama's gowns for both inaugurations.
Timothy Ross, the head of regional transportation research at ubs Warburg in Hong Kong, doubts that the Hong KongTaiwan negotiations will veer off the runway.
Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan's largest phone company, said that the quake had damaged two undersea cables off the Taiwan coast.
The Taiwan issue is more complex.
