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US hails Taiwan steps to improve China relations

The United States on Wednesday praised the steps Taiwan has taken under President Ma Ying-jeou to reduce decades-old hostilities with China.

Raymond Burghardt, chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), outlined Washington’s views as he met Ma on his first visit to the island since the inauguration of President Barack Obama.

The AIT was authorised by the US government to handle civil exchanges with Taiwan after Washington switched its diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing in 1979.

“The Obama administration, like the Bush administration before, has a very positive view of the progress that has been made since last May in restoring dialogue and the many steps toward the improvement of the cross-Strait relationship,” said Burghardt, who is effectively the top US envoy dealing with Taiwan.

China and Taiwan have been governed separately since the end of a civil war in 1949, but Beijing considers the island a part of Chinese territory and is determined to get it back — by force if necessary.

However, relations have improved dramatically since Ma’s Kuomintang party took office last May promising to boost cross-Strait trade and tourism.

Since then, the two sides have launched daily flights and direct shipping links while Taiwan also plans to phase out its decades-old military conscription policy over the next five years.

For its part, Beijing reportedly is considering cutting the number of missiles deployed against the island, which Taiwan estimates at more than 1,300.

Burghardt dismissed speculation by some newspapers that Washington was unhappy because its strategic interest had been undermined by Ma’s policy towards China.

“I just want to show you that all these analyses and theories have somehow misunderstood the US position… we really and truly are enthusiastic about the stability we now see.”

Burghardt, however, also renewed Washington’s commitment to supply sufficient weapons to Taiwan so that the island can defend itself and have more confidence in negotiating with Beijing.

The United States has remained the leading arms supplier to Taiwan despite Beijing’s objections.

By : P. B. Shelley

THE sun is warm, the sky is clear,
The waves are dancing fast and bright,
Blue isles and snowy mountains wear
The purple noon’s transparent might:
The breath of the moist earth is light           5
Around its unexpanded buds;
Like many a voice of one delight—
The winds’, the birds’, the ocean-floods’—
The city’s voice itself is soft like solitude’s.

I see the deep’s untrampled floor                  10
With green and purple seaweeds strown;
I see the waves upon the shore
Like light dissolved in star-showers thrown.
I sit upon the sands alone;
The lightning of the noontide ocean              15
Is flashing round me, and a tone
Arises from its measured motion—
How sweet, did any heart now share in my emotion!

Alas! I have nor hope nor health,
Nor peace within nor calm around;             20
Nor that content, surpassing wealth,
The sage in meditation found,
And walk’d with inward glory crown’d;
Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure.
Others I see whom these surround—             25
Smiling they live, and call life pleasure:
To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.

Yet now despair itself is mild,
Even as the winds and waters are;
I could lie down like a tired child,                    30
And weep away the life of care
Which I have borne, and yet must bear,—
Till death like sleep might steal on me,
And I might feel in the warm air
My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea            35
Breathe o’er my dying brain its last monotony.

Maybe with passage of time I’ll change my mind, but at the moment I’ve made up my mind not to vote again. And that is all because these politicians have sugar-coated mouths – if they say something you will surely believe them, but in the end they do nothing. The politicians from all parties are just the same. Even the ones with good intentions won’t do anything, because they are surrounded by corrupt people. I voted in last election, but I’m totally upset with what has been achieved since.
The more the politicians talk, the less they do. They need to talk less, and do more for the country. But most of the people are not like me – they will still vote.
As A Women here, We want everything to change, because it is the women and children who suffer the most. They suffer more than the men. But In a male dominated society they have very  limited role. They are popular for reasons other than politics.As the Jokes were surrounding about Ex Minister informations, Ms Sherry Rehman, And When Benazir Bhutto was ther he was a victim of Objectification as well….

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