Archivo etiqueta «Taiwán»
By Richard Bush, senior fellow and director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution and the author of Untying the Knot: Making Peace in the Taiwan Strait (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 12/02/10):
Not surprisingly, China is responding badly to the Pentagon’s $6-billion arms sale to Taiwan. The Beijing government has suspended security exchanges with the Pentagon and promised to sanction American defense companies. Chinese scholars and other commentators see nefarious motives in the U.S. action and warn of negative consequences. Some call for tough retaliation. High dudgeon is in season. In Washington, some worry that Beijing… Seguir leyendo
Por Xulio Ríos, director del Observatorio de la Política China (EL CORREO DIGITAL, 05/12/09):
Taiwán no es poca cosa. Una isla que con la extensión aproximada de Galicia y una población equivalente a la mitad de España es la decimoctava potencia comercial, la vigésima economía del mundo y el cuarto país con más divisas extranjeras. No obstante, en tiempos de integración regional y global, su futuro está condicionado por la inflexibilidad de China, dispuesta a ceder sólo a cambio de contrapartidas. Las tensiones con los independentistas (2000-2008) bloquearon cualquier expectativa. De ahí que el Kuomintang (KMT), que retomó el poder… Seguir leyendo
Por Xulio Ríos, director del Observatorio de la Política China (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 13/01/09):
Tema: Este ARI trata de la magnitud y consecuencias de la renovación e impulso del diálogo en el estrecho de Taiwán.
Resumen: La reanudación del diálogo institucional entre China y Taiwán obedece a un cambio de política auspiciado por el Kuomintang (KMT) en Taipei, cuyos ejes esenciales (en el orden económico, diplomático y militar) se identifican en este texto. En el continente, Hu Jintao también da muestras de una creciente flexibilidad. Los primeros acuerdos logrados, de alcance histórico, aventuran una rápida normalización, aunque no necesariamente una… Seguir leyendo
By Simon Tisdall (THE GUARDIAN, 07/10/08):
China cancelled a visit to Washington by a senior general, slapped an indefinite ban on port calls by US naval vessels, and cancelled low-level diplomatic exchanges with the US today, in angry retaliation to a US plan to sell $6.5bn in advanced weaponry to Taiwan.
A spokesman for China’s foreign ministry in Beijing, Qin Gang, said the US move broke international law and would cast a shadow over bilateral relations. The proposed sale “has contaminated the sound atmosphere for our military relations and gravely jeopardised China’s national security”, Qin said.
China regards Taiwan, which… Seguir leyendo
Por Augusto Soto, consultor y profesor en ESADE (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 16/04/08):
Tema: Los resultados de las elecciones presidenciales en Taiwán hacen posible un nuevo escenario para una aproximación con China, apoyada por los factores preexistentes de cercanía.
Resumen: Este análisis se propone, en primer término, destacar el significado de los resultados de las elecciones presidenciales y la relevancia que adquieren los antecedentes del candidato elegido. En segundo lugar, destaca por qué las experiencias de los políticos que acompañarán al presidente Ma Ying-jeou pueden conseguir avances con sus diversos homólogos en China. Por último, considera una serie de factores del… Seguir leyendo
Por Xulio Ríos, director del Observatorio de la Política China y autor de Taiwán, el problema de China. (EL PAÍS, 25/03/08):
El resultado de los procesos electorales vividos en Taiwán el 12 de enero (legislativas) y 22 de marzo (presidenciales) abre un nuevo escenario: el retorno del Kuomintang (KMT) al centro de la vida política. En enero, impuso una severa derrota a su rival, el Partido Democrático Progresista (PDP), al obtener una mayoría holgada en el Parlamento. Y ahora, su candidato, Ma Ying-jeou, ha logrado la presidencia.
Tras perder la guerra civil contra el Partido Comunista de Mao Zedong, el… Seguir leyendo
By Simon Tisdall (THE GUARDIAN, 26/02/08):
Hardliners in Washington, Beijing and Taipei continue to warn of an explosive military confrontation between China and the US as Taiwan’s short-fuse presidential election draws close. But growing evidence suggests hawks on both sides are purposefully exaggerating the risks. Rather than threatening war, China is increasingly relying on non-military means to bring its “renegade province” to heel.
Pentagon officials regularly ring alarm bells over the Taiwan Strait. Thomas Fingar, a senior intelligence official, told Congress this month “the danger of that (Taiwan) spinning out of control is real”. After terrorism, China posed the biggest… Seguir leyendo
By Simon Tisdall (THE GUARDIAN, 22/02/08):
Shieh Jhy-wey is Taiwan’s minister of information. He is also a 53-year-old rap star with several hits to his name, a cool line in designer specs, and an avid female following.
Asked during an interview in Taipei about next month’s presidential election – and a planned simultaneous referendum on whether Taiwan should apply for UN membership – Shieh dispensed with pro forma answers.
Instead he rose to his feet, dropped a shoulder, extended his arms to a startled audience of two, and launched into a quasi-tuneful rap song of his own making.
The printed… Seguir leyendo
By Ian Williams, the Nation’s UN correspondent (THE GUARDIAN, 03/01/08):
The leaders of China move into 2008 in celebratory mood in anticipation of this summer’s Olympics – the culmination of two decades of unprecedented growth. The scale of that economic achievement has blunted criticism of the democracy deficit that is in inverse proportion to the payment surplus. But it is legitimate to ask how the “people” are doing in the people’s republic. China’s disparities of wealth and power are now greater than anywhere else in the world, even though most of its trading partners are prepared to shrug off the… Seguir leyendo
Bt Simon Tisdall (THE GUARDIAN, 13/11/07):
As the US increasingly looks to China for help in tackling problem issues such as Iran, Burma and Darfur, concern is growing in Taiwan that its sole international protector may be dropping its guard. The de facto independence of the island, viewed by Beijing as a renegade province, depends in the last resort on US defensive guarantees and arms supplies. Yet despite expanded collaboration with Washington in other areas, China remains engaged in a rapid military build-up along the Taiwan Strait.
According to Taiwan’s president, Chen Shui-ban, China now has 988 missiles aimed at… Seguir leyendo
By James Huang, Taiwan’s minister of foreign affairs (THE GUARDIAN, 03/09/07):
A little over a month ago Taiwan’s president, Chen Shui-bian, submitted a fresh application for the country’s admission to the United Nations. Within days, the UN secretariat answered the request with an outright rejection.This is now the 15th year in a row that Taiwan has been denied participation in this august global body, an organisation that has pledged to be “open to all … peace-loving states which accept the obligations contained” in the UN charter.
For many peoples and nations around the world, Taiwan has been an active and… Seguir leyendo
By Chen Shui-bian, president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (THE WASHINGTON POST, 11/05/07):
In recent years the outbreak and spread of avian flu has brought illness, death and economic peril to countries in Asia and elsewhere. Memories of the fear, pain and suffering that accompanied the 2003 SARS outbreak — after failed coverups by the Chinese government — are still vivid in many places. While disease heeds no national borders, Taiwan has had to fight pandemics without help from the World Health Organization — a humanitarian agency that is supposed to serve all humankind.
Taiwan is not a member… Seguir leyendo
Simon Tisdall (THE GUARDIAN, 13/02/06):
The British government is mostly ignoring Ma Ying-jeou’s visit to London. As mayor of Taipei, Taiwan’s capital, Mr Ma is officially on a trip to encourage business and investment. The trade minister, Ian Pearson, had agreed to meet Mr Ma purely “in his capacity as trade minister”, a Foreign Office spokeswoman said. There would be no discussions of a political nature.
Such delicacy is understandable. For in his other, more important, public capacity, Mr Ma is chairman of Taiwan’s Kuomintang (KMT), the Chinese nationalist party, and linear heir to Chiang Kai-shek, who fought and lost… Seguir leyendo
¿Se dirigen China y EEUU hacia un conflicto bélico por Taiwán? Soeren Kern, Investigador principal, Estados Unidos y Diálogo Trasatlántico, Real Instituto Elcano (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 04/04/05).
Las relaciones entre China y Taiwán: tendencias y propuestas. Mario Esteban, Profesor ayudante doctor y miembro del Centro de Estudios de Asia Oriental en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 18/02/05).