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	Taiwan Affairs Office -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Taiwan Affairs Office (台湾事处办公室) is an (Click link for more info and facts about administrative agency) administrative agency under the (Click link for more info and facts about State Council of the People's Republic of China) State Council of the People's Republic of China.
		According to the arrangement and authorization of the State Council, the office takes charge of relevant preparations for negotiations and agreements with the Taiwanese government and its authorized public organizations.
		Taiwan Affairs Council is also responsible for the coordination with overall planning the economic and trade related to Taiwan and exchanges and cooperation in such areas as finance, culture, academic research, sports, science and technology, health, etc with the departments concerned.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/taiwan_affairs_office.htm (203 words)

	Encyclopedia: Political status of Taiwan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The position of supporters of Chinese reunification in Taiwan is that Taiwan is part of China but the PRC is not the sole legitimate government of China, and that reunification does not necessarily have to occur under the communist regime.
		Taiwan Strait The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, also called the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was a conflict that took place between the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) governments in which the PRC was accused by Taiwan of shelling the islands of Matsu and...
		Public opinion in Taiwan regarding relations with the PRC is notoriously difficult to gauge as poll results tend to be extremely sensitive to how the questions are phrased and what options are given, and there is a tendency by all political parties to spin the results to support their point of view.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Political-status-of-Taiwan (10290 words)

	Asia Times Online - News from greater China; Hong Kong and Taiwan
		Taiwan Affairs Office spokesman Zhang Mingqing declared that China would "completely annihilate" any moves toward Taiwanese independence, no matter what the cost, even the loss of the Summer Olympic Games to be held in Beijing in 2008 - a clearly implied reference to possible military action if necessary.
		A strong advocate of Taiwan's independence, he is expected to continue wrestling with Beijing, especially for his constitutional-reform agenda set to be accomplished by 2008, which is seen by Beijing as "a de facto independence timetable" according to its public denunciation on Monday.
		Taiwan can optimize its industrial structure and upgrade its enterprise competitiveness in the course of cross-Strait economic exchanges and cooperation and join the mainland in meeting the challenges of economic globalization and regional integration.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China/FE26Ad06.html (1652 words)

	Taiwan Confrontation
		Taiwan steadily increased the level and variety of projects that manifest the independence ambitions of the current administration.
		Taiwan banned direct flights after losing the Chinese civil war to the communists in 1949, citing concerns that China might use airliners to attack.
		Taiwan is willing to talk to China in a government-to-government mode and requires that all disputes must be settled by peaceful means.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/taiwan-intro.htm (4893 words)

	ipedia.com: Political status of Taiwan Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Some advocates of Taiwan independence argue that Instrument of Surrender of Japan did not transfer title of Taiwan and that when Japan renounced sovereignty of Taiwan in the Treaty of San Francisco in 1951, the sovereignty of Taiwan returned to the people of Taiwan.
		President Chen Shui-bian has stated that "Taiwan is an independent, sovereign country" but with the view that "Taiwan is the Republic of China." It, however, has been deliberately silent as to the issue of whether Taiwan is or is not part of China and the meaning of the term China.
		The position of supporters of Chinese reunification in Taiwan is that Taiwan is part of China but the PRC is not the sole legitimate government of China.
	www.ipedia.com /political_status_of_taiwan.html (2627 words)

	11 Chapter Six text
		The Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) of the State Council under the Premier, where cross strait policy is developed, is the primary organization responsible for Taiwan policy.
		Taiwan’s effort to establish a contact organization began with the National Affairs Conference on June 29, 1990, when it was proposed that an organization in the government and a quasi-government organization be formed to handle cross strait relations.
		Taiwan continues to press for renewal of cross strait talks and China too urges renewal, but continues to insist that there must be an agreement on the one China principle first.
	cns.miis.edu /straittalk/11_chapter_six_text.htm (3665 words)

	washingtonpost.com: China Proposes Business, Travel Links to Taiwan
		The proposals, announced by the government's Taiwan Affairs Office, marked the latest in a series of conciliatory gestures from Beijing and Taipei aimed at relaxing tensions across the strait despite fundamental discord between the two governments over Taiwan's status.
		Taiwan Affairs Office officials also proposed negotiations on allowing Taiwan fruit and vegetable farmers to sell more produce in mainland China, a potentially profitable market.
		Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council, which handles relations with Beijing, reacted cautiously to the proposals raised in Beijing.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A54487-2005Feb25?language=printer (640 words)

	China warns Tiawan - Gold & Silver Forum
		Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian, from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party, has launched an aggressive re-election campaign based on the assertion that Taiwan is a separate country from China.
		Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian's extreme push for independence is crossing Beijing's red line and runs the risk of triggering a war between the island and mainland, a senior government official warned Tuesday.
		Taiwan has emerged as a cloud over ties between the world's most populous nation and its most powerful, one that risks undermining Chinese support for US efforts like the war on terror and the Korean peninsula nuclear crisis, analysts said.
	www.goldismoney.info /forums/showthread.php?t=5028 (8866 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / China, Taiwan Eye Possible Historic Direct Flights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		China's Taiwan Affairs Office proposed allowing the first direct commercial flights across the Taiwan Strait since 1949, when Nationalist troops lost the Chinese civil war to the Communists and fled to the island.
		Taiwan has banned direct air and shipping links with China since their civil war split, but President Chen Shui-bian expressed hope charter flights could be a step toward better relations, without making direct reference to Monday's proposal.
		Taiwan's Chang is to brief officials on his return later in the day.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2005/01/10/china_agrees_to_direct_charter_flights_with_taiwan?mode=PF (706 words)

	News & Views - Taiwan's New Party Delegation in Beijing for Dialogue (7/11/2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		An eight-member delegation representing the New Party of Taiwan arrived in Beijing Tuesday afternoon for its first party-to-party dialogue with the Communist Party of China (CPC) on ties between both sides of the Taiwan Straits and efforts to promote the peaceful reunification of the motherland.
		The delegation, headed by Hsu Li-Nung, was met at Beijing's Capital International Airport by Sun Yafu, assistant director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the CPC Central Committee.
		The delegation's current visit is aimed at opening up channels of communication with the Taiwan Affairs Office of the CPC Central Committee for joint efforts to look for ways to the reunification.
	www.chinahouston.org /news/2001711070615.html (286 words)

	News & Views - Taiwan Affairs Office Spokesman on Taiwan Issue (4/28/2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nothing, either "Taiwan independence" forces, separatist forces or any foreign forces, can stand in the way of China's reunification, said a spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council Friday.
		He noted that U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and the erroneous remarks of the U.S. president were a gross interference in China's internal affairs, serious violation of China's sovereignty and an act to obstruct China's peaceful reunification.
		If the Taiwan authorities truly want to guarantee the safety of the Taiwan compatriots, they should recognize the one-China policy and realize the reunification of the motherland.
	www.chinahouston.org /news/2001427213344.html (342 words)

	Taiwan MAC slammed for distortion of new law(03/16/05)
		A spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council on March 15 criticized the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) of the Taiwan authorities for its distortion of the Anti-Secession Law.
		The spokesman said the MAC aimed to deceive Taiwan compatriots and international opinion by distorting the Anti-Secession Law as a move to change the status quo in the Taiwan Strait and provide "a blank check" for "annexation of Taiwan" by force in the MAC's statement issued on Monday.
		The employment of non-peaceful means to prevent Taiwan's secession from the motherland, which is prescribed in the law as the last resort, targets "Taiwan independence" secessionists but never Taiwan compatriots, he said.
	www.china-embassy.org /eng/xw/t187644.htm (447 words)

	CNN.com - China blasts Chen's 'disastrous' call - August 5, 2002
		The statement from the State Councli Taiwan Affairs Office did not mention a military response beyond a standard warning.
		Chinese sources familiar with Beijing's Taiwan policy said senior cadres, including members of the party Central Committee's Leading Group on Taiwan Affairs (LGTA), which is headed by President Jiang Zemin, were still assessing their response.
		The paper quoted military officers as saying "the strategic goal [of the maneuvers] is the island of Taiwan" and that the troops were practicing the invasion of islands.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/08/05/china.taiwan (598 words)

	China Issues Statement on Taiwan Election
		The Taiwan Affairs Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council issued a statement on Taiwan election on March 18.
		The election of a new leader in Taiwan can not change the fact that Taiwan is part of Chinese territory.
		We appeal to Taiwan compatriots to combine their efforts with ours to safeguard the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the motherland, protect the fundamental interests of the Chinese nation, and realize the complete reunification of the motherland.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/china/2000/000318-prc-mofa1.htm (188 words)

	Hong Kong daily reports reshuffle in China's Taiwan Affairs Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Today the TAO website has updated its "Leadership Profile" section to include Zheng Lizhong, former secretary of the Xiamen city party committee, as TAO deputy director, and Ye Kedong, former secretary to President Hu Jintao and director of the Bureau of Hong Kong and Macao Affairs under the State Council TAO, as TAO assistant director.
		Among them, Li Bingcai is deputy director in charge of trade and economic relations towards Taiwan and concurrently vice-chairman of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait, who, after successfully accomplishing the work of receiving "Lien [Chan] and [James] Soong on their visits to the mainland", may retire before the end of this year.
		In the early 1990s, he was transferred to the TAO; and around the time of Hong Kong's reversion, he took up the post as deputy director of the Taiwan Affairs Department of the Xinhua Hong Kong branch (the Central Government's liaison office stationed in Hong Kong).
	news.monstersandcritics.com /mediamonitor/article_1006636.php/Hong_Kong_daily_reports_reshuffle_in_Chinas_Taiwan_Affairs_Office (740 words)

	AP-081100
		Amid a flurry of overtures by Taiwan, China has reshuffled its office that deals with the island, naming an army general and a Harvard-educated bureaucrat to top posts, according to a government official and news reports.
		Zhou Mingwei, head of the Shanghai Foreign Affairs Office, left this week to become deputy director of the Taiwan Affairs Office in Beijing, an official in his office confirmed Friday.
		The new appointments in the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, China's cabinet, suggest Beijing wants to revitalize its activities.
	www.taiwansecurity.org /AP/AP-081100.htm (437 words)

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		Zhou Mingwei, previously head of the Shanghai Foreign Affairs Office, and Wang Zaixi, a major general, were appointed deputy directors to the office which oversees Taiwan affairs for the Chinese cabinet, Xinhua news agency reported.
		The Taiwan Affairs Office was set up in October 1988, two months after the Taiwan government established a task force, the Mainland Affairs Coordination Meeting, charged with coordinating the dealings of Taiwan's government agencies with the mainland.
		In the past decade, the office has not been the most active Chinese agency dealing with Taiwan policies, as direct negotiations with Taiwan have been conducted by the semi-official ARATS.
	www.taiwansecurity.org /AFP/AFP-110700.htm (288 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In a routine press conference, Zhang also stressed that it is imperative that Taiwan should recognize the "one China" policy, and added that Beijing's perception of the election results is that the mainstream public opinion in Taiwan is against independence and strongly for peace, stability and the positive development of cross-strait relations.
		He said: The Taiwan authorities have consistently failed to lift the ban on mainlanders travelling to Taiwan for sightseeing and the recently adopted proposal is only going to allow in mainlanders who have taken up residence abroad or are studying abroad.
		At present, the key mission of our country's foreign affairs efforts is to actively safeguard world peace, promote common development, and strive to cultivate a sustained, stable international environment and a fine peripheral environment for our country's socialist modernization, with the focus on economic construction as the centre task.
	www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de /oasien/china/service/bbc/011206.txt (9520 words)

	CreadersNET -- News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Zhang made the comments at a regular press conference after Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian of the DPP reportedly said on Monday that his party's dramatic win in weekend elections has not changed his commitment to improving cross-Straits ties.
		While claiming that the aspiration of Taiwan mainstream society is still opposed to Taiwan independence and in favour of improvement of cross-Straits ties, Zhang warned that any political movement which acts against that aspiration will eat its own bitter fruit.
		The Chinese Government proposes to settle the Taiwan question by peaceful means and, at the same time, does not undertake to renounce the use of force.
	www.creadersnet.com /newsViewer.php?idx=88880 (632 words)

	China growling over Taiwan stance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wang, vice-minister of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said curbing Taiwan’s efforts toward independence is the main goal of the mainland, which will go to war if necessary.
		When Chen ran for president in Taiwan in 2000, he was the candidate Beijing disliked most because his opposition party had called for independence for Taiwan.
		“The separatist activities by Taiwan independence elements directly endangers the basic interests of Taiwan compatriots, and it is a disaster for Taiwan,” an unidentified spokesman from the Taiwan Affairs office was quoted as saying by Xinhua.
	www.msnbc.com /news/995390.asp?0cv=CB10&cp1=1 (637 words)

	Beijing agrees to charter flight proposal(01/11/05)
		Chen Yunlin (right), director of Taiwan Affairs Office of the Communist Party of China's Central Committee, meets with Tseng Yung-chuan, director of the Kuomintang's central policy committee January 10, 2005 in Beijing.
		Chen Yunlin, minister of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, expressed a welcome to the proposal raised by Taiwan's "mainland affairs council" while urging the Taiwan authorities to honour its pledge.
		He said the KMT delegation will report the agreements reached with the Taiwan Affairs Office to the "mainland affairs council" and urge the DPP administration to immediately authorize industrial associations and airlines to start discussions with their mainland counterparts.
	www.china-embassy.org /eng/gyzg/t179238.htm (804 words)

	AsiaMedia :: China Expresses Concern Over Taiwan Instability
		PRC Taiwan Affairs Office says China is monitoring the situation closely in light of the electoral dispute and battles between police and protestors.
		Nearly a week after the close and still contested Taiwan presidential election, the Chinese government said it "will not look on indifferently if the current situation in Taiwan worsens and spirals out of control." Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency carried the statement from the government's Taiwan Affairs Office.
		Xinhua quoted the spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office as saying, "Taiwan compatriots are as close to us as flesh and blood...
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=9482 (233 words)

	ParaPundit: China Threatens War Against Taiwan For Splittist Tendencies
		The coming election in Taiwan and the threat of a referendum for independence in Taiwan are providing the impetus for the Beijing leaders to strike such a threatening posture.
		Keep in mind that these Beijing leaders who want the US to rein in Taiwan are the very same people who enable the continued development of nuclear weapons and the export of missiles and nuclear technology by North Korea.
		Since taking power on May 20, 2000, the Taiwan leader has refused to embrace the one-China principle that states there is only one China consisting of both the mainland and Taiwan.
	www.parapundit.com /archives/001804.html (2438 words)

	China, Taiwan Direct Flights Closer
		China and Taiwan may exchange their first direct flights in more than five decades in February under a proposal hammered out by Chinese policy makers and Taiwan opposition legislators in Beijing on Monday.
		Under the plan, Chinese planes would land on Taiwan soil during the Lunar New Year holidays that begin on February 9 without having to make stopovers in Hong Kong or Macau, the lawmakers from Taiwan's main opposition Nationalist Party said after a meeting with minister of Taiwan affairs Chen Yunlin.
		Airline executives said Taiwan airlines likely to participate would be China Airlines, EVA Air, Trans Asia Airways, Far East Air Transport, Mandarin Airlines and UNI Airways.
	news.airwise.com /story/view/1105351058.html (521 words)

	Chinese officials in Washington Meetings Threaten US Businesses and War
		The No. 2 man in Beijing's Taiwan Affairs Office, Zhou Mingwei, has again warned that Taiwan's failure to approve reunification with China will mean war and issued a veiled threat to US businesses operating in China if the administration of George W. Bush continues selling arms to Taiwan.
		The prospect of fresh US arms sales to Taiwan in April was clearly an important concern for the group, whose visit comes a month before a planned visit to Washington by Deputy Premier Qian Qichen (¿ú¨äµ`), Beijing's top foreign policymaker, who will also talk about arms sales while in Washington.
		We are letting Taiwan slide on a lot of copyright stuff because they are who they are and need all the help they can get resisting the mainland.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/611879/posts (3628 words)

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