The Taiwanese dollar appreciated, causing Taiwanese exports to slump.

The Taiwanese dollar appreciated, causing Taiwanese exports to slump.

I am Taiwanese.

Taiwanese food is milder than Indian food.

He spoke with a Taiwanese accent mixed in.

One Taiwanese production studio would interpret American politics in 3D.

But the Taiwanese babies are getting better, not the American babies.

Desai, A., Lautier, M. and Charya, H. (1996), The Taiwanese machine tool industry in Mytelka, L. (ed.) (1996a).

At the height of tensions, when China found the governments of Lee Teng hui and Chen Shui bian intolerable, it never ceased its policy of embracing the Taiwanese people and Taiwanese businessmen. Over time, this created a rich web of economic interdependence, which promotes stability.

Indeed, Taiwanese capital and know how built much of China s hi tech industries, and well over a half million Taiwanese live and work near Shanghai in a virtual replica of Hsin Chu, Taiwan s Silicon Valley. But in Chen s Taiwan, domestic squabbles took precedence over economic development.

BANGKOK Last week, a Taiwanese court sentenced Chen Shui bien, Taiwan s president from 2000 until 2008, to life imprisonment for corruption.

Signs of decline in China s economy, which has racked up double digit growth for decades, would affect all of its Taiwan policies. When Shanghai stocks fell by about 20 last year, Taiwanese stocks fell by a similar amount almost simultaneously proof of how synchronized the Chinese and Taiwanese economies have become.

In practice, however, the construction of legal foundations could weaken the Chinese government s operational flexibility when responding to a Taiwanese move toward independence. The law of unintended consequences dictates that this effort to deny ambiguity to Taiwanese activists could backfire, and instead leave mainland leaders without room to maneuver if Taiwan does attempt to revise the status quo.

The Chinese culture embodied in the daily lives of 23 million Taiwanese of whatever political beliefs was not so easily eliminated by decree. Moreover, the attempt to do so angered the overwhelming majority of Taiwanese, who finally understood the stupidity of Chen s policy, particularly how it led to economic stagnation at a time when mainland China was booming.

In April this year, the police successfully made an arrest of the thief when he was preparing to steal the suitcase of a Taiwanese tourist.

After winning the presidency, Chen could have risen above theatrics by focusing on two Taiwanese strengths its economy and its unbroken humanist Chinese cultural tradition.

Money of course talks for both China and Taiwan, and their economies are now closely linked, with large numbers of Taiwanese living and working in China (especially in the Shanghai area) and huge Taiwanese investments in Chinese manufacturing. Taiwan s Foxconn, the world s largest electronics manufacturer (including Blackberries, iPhones, and Kindles), has 12 factories in China, including one in Shenzhen that employs hundreds of thousands of workers.

After experiencing the benefits of democracy and freedom of expression, Taiwanese are unlikely to want to settle for anything less than the open society that they have today. Indeed, with increased contact between Taiwan and the mainland, ordinary Chinese could begin to envy the modern democracy that the Taiwanese people have built and spread the idea of an open society to the Chinese mainland.

In that city there is a Taiwanese firm that made the iPhone that many of you have, and they made it with labor from Chinese who moved there to Shenzhen.

The trafficking of a person as a mail order bride, for example, between a Taiwanese man and a West Kalimantan woman is done through the internet or a special syndicate.

However, even though intra and inter chain upgrading may be complex to realize, examples like TATA's and the experience of the Taiwanese firms illustrate the feasibility of these types of upgrading.

TOKYO China s behavior during the recent presidential election in Taiwan demonstrates that its leaders have learned some lessons, if only the hard way. They have learned that China can have a greater impact on Taiwanese voters through trade and making people feel richer than by threats even threats to fire missiles which had been China s electoral tactics in previous Taiwanese elections, particularly when a pro independence candidate looked popular enough to win.

But the controversial legislation to outlaw Taiwanese secession has proved anything but routine. It raised the stakes for the island s pro independence camp and increased the risk of a cross Strait military conflict.

According to Taiwanese media reports, Lin Quan, the head of Taiwan's Executive Yuan, announced yesterday morning, Ill gotten Party Assets Handling Regulations by political parties and their accompanying organizations will take effective since today.

I therefore appeal to the United Nations, through you, Mr. President, to extend membership to the Taiwanese people in the same way as it has done for countries of Eastern Europe and South East Asia.

Some Taiwanese firms shifted their competences from manufacturing transistor radios to calculators, and, after using their knowledge to manufacture television sets, moved on to produce PC monitors, laptops and finally WAP phones (Pietrobelli and Rabellotti 2004).

Taiwanese President Ma Ying jeou was as surprised as the Japanese by the size of the contributions made by his people. Ma had been tilting his government s policies increasingly toward China, concluding a bilateral framework agreement on economic cooperation.

The Taiwanese people display the same concern we all do about global problems such as international peace and security, HIV AIDS, the spread of disease, environmental pollution, and all the other issues that engage us at the United Nations.

No change in Taiwan apos s social, economic and political situation could alter the fact that Taiwan was an inalienable part of the Chinese territory, and a province of China, and that the Taiwanese authorities were a local authority of China.

He has already proposed a popular referendum on Taiwanese membership in the United Nations. China s influence within the UN would prevent such a move even if Taiwan voted yes, but an international confrontation is the last thing China wants coinciding with the Olympics.

He ordered the Education Ministry to revise school textbooks to promote the idea that the Taiwanese people were fundamentally different, practically a different race from the Chinese. Clearly, Chen s hatred of dictatorship, whether Communist or KMT, consumed him, limiting his ability to think clearly.

At Café 6 , a Taiwanese movie about the relationship of a group of youths, starring Dong Zijian, is a film competing for the current film festival s media award. De Lan , another movie in which he is the leading actor, has also been shortlisted for the Golden Goblet Award.

Its role in the global economy is confined to low to medium end processing and assembly functions. The most critical, sophisticated, and profitable parts of the value chain research and development, product design, branding, marketing, service, and distribution are occupied by American, European, Japanese, South Korean, and Taiwanese companies.

Last February, I headed a 40 member trade delegation to Taipei. That mission s highlight was my dialogue with Taiwanese President Ma Ying jeou, who stressed the importance of connecting Taiwan to the China ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA) in the light of warmer relations developing between the Mainland and Taiwan.

In principle, the Taiwan issue need not lead to conflict. With increasing change in China and growing economic and social contacts across the strait, it should be possible to find a formula that allows the Taiwanese to maintain their market economy and democratic system without a placard at the UN.

Chen s jail sentence should also serve to remind the DPP that it must become a party for all Taiwanese, local or not if it is to have any chance at a revival. Taiwan s people know that they cannot prosper as a democracy if ethnic divisiveness is allowed to hold sway.

THSR connects Taipei and Kaohsiung, which are 345 kilometers apart, in 90 minutes. As a result of a renewed emphasis on safety following an earthquake, the Taiwanese authorities decided to use Japanese technology for the rolling stock and a mixture of German and French technology for other facilities and operations.

For example, China provided cheap airplane tickets to roughly 400,000 of the one million Taiwanese living on the mainland to enable them to return home to vote. Given that Ma won by 800,000 votes, this tactic may not have been decisive, but it most likely played a considerable part in determining the outcome.

Taiwan s sole aboriginal parliamentarian once provided the logical rebuttal to Chen and the DPP, delivering a speech to a packed Congress entirely in his native tongue, which nobody else in the chamber could understand. The message was obvious his was the only group with a legitimate claim to being native Taiwanese.

Instead, Chen balked at further integration into the global economy, refusing to open all of Taiwan s economic sectors to foreign participation, which would have strengthened Taiwan s competitiveness and efficiency. For years, forward looking Taiwanese industrialists, including many hi tech entrepreneurs, urged Chen to de bureaucratize and de politicize Taiwan s increasingly isolated economy.

Chinese leaders blame Taiwanese leaders for cross straits tensions, and blame the Dalai Lama for all that ails Tibet. So, too, have protestors around the world made George W. Bush resemble Hitler, and mullahs throughout the Islamic world ritualistically harangue US presidents as earthly Satans, simultaneously noting their basic affection for the American people.

Today, the greatest prospect of a destabilizing incident lies in the complex relationships across the Taiwan Strait. China, which regards Taiwan as an integral part of its territory that has sheltered behind the US navy since the days of the Chinese civil war, vows that any Taiwanese declaration of independence will be met by force.

Second, peaceful reunification of the mainland and Taiwan remains unlikely, unless it takes place as China continues to promise on the basis of one country, two systems. But the Taiwanese cannot be very reassured by what they see happening today in Hong Kong, which was promised the same thing before its return to China in 1997.

His most controversial political moves were aimed at his domestic opponents, not the Chinese government on the mainland. He led a vicious campaign to portray all Taiwanese with mainland Chinese roots, even if born and bred in Taiwan, as untrustworthy carpetbaggers wai shen ren , or not native people as if they were aliens from a different culture.

But to call the citizens under Park Chung Hee, Ferdinand Marcos, or General Suharto free is an abomination. The happy fact that Koreans, Filipinos, Thais and Taiwanese did eventually become free, or at least freer, is not so much to the credit of the US as it is to the people who fought for their freedoms themselves.