| roger |
Papers in Taiwan are paying close attention to China's appeal to allow direct flights in time for February's Spring Festival holiday.
The impatience of some dailies on the issue is palpable, with one exclaiming "we've had enough, let's have direct flights!"
Others are more cautious, fearing that Beijing may be using "double-handed tactics" and "tricks".
Hardly suprising, the main chinese dailies, China Evening Times, Central Daily News, and the English China Post are pro-unification.
The rest are pro-green.
To each it's own opinion, but how logical are their opinions?
Yup, it is a carrot and stick tactics, Liberty Times summed it the best. Taiwan wont' survive long.
Your views & comments?
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No more delays, no more politician's nonsense, wasting ordinary people's money and lives! No more using policies as excuses, wasting the productivity of economic growth... Hong Kong can have them, so why can't the two sides of the strait have direct flights? That's right, we've had enough, let's have direct flights!
China Evening Times
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The Democratic Progressive Party needs to be clear that the Spring Festival chartered flights are the heartfelt wish of Taiwanese businesspeople, not the wish of the Chinese communists... How can there be a government that blocks its own people from coming home for family reunions? Democratic Progressive Party, please disentangle the Spring Festival chartered flights from politics!
Central Daily News
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China is using the... 'cross-strait Spring Festival chartered flights' to carry out the double-handed tactics of a carrot and a stick against Taiwan. This [reflects] the lack of basic vigilance among the ruling and opposition parties against China's 'united front' and 'military struggle' tricks. This is, without a doubt, Taiwan's biggest survival crisis.
Liberty Times
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Beijing has refused to negotiate directly with the government, as well as refusing to meet official and semi-official organisations such as the Civil Aeronautics Administration and the Straits Exchange Foundation... If the arrangements for the flights, and China's propaganda, impact on the safety and dignity of the nation, then the 'negotiations' must stop immediately.
Taipei Times
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We earnestly hope that the government can leap past the framework of cross-strait relations and handle matters concerned with the Spring Festival chartered flights purely from a humanitarian viewpoint, because this is the most basic goal of the promotion of Spring Festival chartered flights, and should also be the only goal.
Central Daily News
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Now, the last and only hurdle is Taipei's insistence on formalising the new agreement in the same fashion as the 2002 Taiwan-Hong Kong air accord, in which Taiwan officials were allowed to sit in negotiations as advisers to Taipei's team, but not allowed to put their names on the document. This demand has been flatly rejected by Beijing on the ground that the 'special charter service does not constitute an air pact'. Taipei will have to bear the brunt at home and abroad if it balks at this juncture.
The China Post
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4166957.stm
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| Keith |
| Liberty times & Tsipei Times are sister publications. They are pro-independence. Hence, China baiter.
Time is on China's side. Businesses are moving to mainland in troves.
I would not be if Taiwan becomes an empty shell in 5-10 yrs.
Beijing does not want to deal direct with Ah Bian and gives him legitimacy in the process.
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| roger |
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Originally posted by Keith
Liberty times & Tsipei Times are sister publications. They are pro-independence. Hence, China baiter.
Time is on China's side. Businesses are moving to mainland in troves.
I would not be if Taiwan becomes an empty shell in 5-10 yrs.
Beijing does not want to deal direct with Ah Bian and gives him legitimacy in the process.
I must say I am suprised that Ah Bian agreed to the flights. Personally, I don't want China to bent for Ah Bian. I hope the deal went in favour of China.
But I don't understand why the planes still have to detour via HK airspace.
And also what about the issue whether it should be classified as domestic or international flights? What flag does it fly under? I dont' read it in any of the reports.
Lets hope for the best. [:)] |
| Keith |
| More than half of the Airlines in this project are from China. 1-2??
There is no question of China bending for Ah Bian when it is common knowledge that Bush called him a sob.
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| roger |
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Originally posted by Keith
More than half of the Airlines in this project are from China. 1-2??
There is no question of China bending for Ah Bian when it is common knowledge that Bush called him a sob.
Whats in it for the DPP?
I understand what would mean for the opposition, what would mean for the CPP, but what in for the President?
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| Keith |
| Don't know.
Even Lee Teng Hui is complaining when Ah Bian agreed.
May be DPP is starting to realise that Taiwan's economic survival depends on China. |