EDITORIAL: Where is Taiwan’s Sputnik moment? - Taipei Times

EDITORIAL: Where is Taiwan’s Sputnik moment? - Taipei Times: "As rallying cries go, Obama’s “Sputnik moment” has many virtues. Chief among them is that it invokes a time in US history in the late 1950s when the Soviet Union’s success in putting a satellite into space before them spurred Americans to rise above divided domestic politics to address an outside threat that was not just military, but economic, technological and political. The military threat has waned but the others have grown, challenging US prosperity, and these, Obama suggested, can only be vanquished through the same unity and determination prompted by the Sputnik launch.

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Beans are spilled — ECFA is political - Taipei Times

Beans are spilled — ECFA is political - Taipei Times: "It may have been inadvertent, but recent praise by US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and US President Barack Obama for the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) cut through the smokescreen blown up by President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) administration by directly pointing to its political impact.

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Ukraine — a mirror to Taiwan’s transition - Taipei Times

Ukraine — a mirror to Taiwan’s transition - Taipei Times: "Every time Ukraine is mentioned, most people think of Chernobyl and the Orange Revolution, but the country has a lot in common with Taiwan, making a closer look worthwhile.

Ukraine’s independence was not followed by a period of transitional justice; power remained with the Communist Party until the Orange Revolution in 2004. The main players in the revolution were former president Viktor Yushchenko, President Viktor Yanukovych and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

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Gates reiterates US’ Taiwan policy - Taipei Times

Gates reiterates US’ Taiwan policy - Taipei Times: "US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that following his substantive meetings in Beijing this week, which included talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤), he did not anticipate any change in US policies toward Taiwan.

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Push by China to Modernize Military Bears Fruit - NYTimes.com

Push by China to Modernize Military Bears Fruit - NYTimes.com: "Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, on a mission to resuscitate moribund military relations with China, will not arrive in Beijing for talks with the nation’s top military leaders until Sunday. But at an airfield in Chengdu, a metropolis in the nation’s center, China’s military leaders have already rolled out a welcome for him.

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PRC’s fifth-generation jet pictures cause stir in US - Taipei Times

PRC’s fifth-generation jet pictures cause stir in US - Taipei Times: "Signaling a greater-than-ever military threat to Taiwan, new information emerged this week showing that China might be much further ahead in its development of a fifth-generation fighter aircraft than previously believed.

In what has caused a major stir within the Pentagon, Beijing Internet censors earlier this week allowed high-resolution photographs of the Chengdu Aircraft Corp stealth fighter to be published for the first time.

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EDITORIAL: Looking after the public’s interests - Taipei Times

EDITORIAL: Looking after the public’s interests - Taipei Times: "While savings deposit rates currently hover at a low of 1.2 percent, amendments to the Civil Servant Retirement Act (公務人員退休法) that have just come into effect mean that retired junior public servants will be able to put their money into preferential savings accounts at an interest rate of 18 percent. That is 15 times higher than the interest rate offered to the general public. While it may be a cause for civil servants and teachers to rejoice — ordinary taxpayers may find it harder to smile given that they will be paying for the difference.

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