No wonder some people are beginning to feel fed up with this presidential election. Just the questions of whether to hold televised debates between the presidential candidates and who is to blame for the inability to hold such debates thus far are enough to generate a real war of words between the pan-green and pan-blue camps.

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By the Liberty Times editorial
French President Jacques Chirac stated during a state banquet in honor of Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) last Monday that holding a national referendum along with Taiwan's presidential election is a "grave error" that will disrupt regional stability.

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By Chen Mei-chin 陳美津
German Chancellor gerhard Schroeder and French President Jacques Chirac are proposing that Europe lift itss arms embargo against China, imposed in 1989 after the crackdown on China's democracy movement at Tienanmen Square.

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The remaining Democratic hopefuls are all singing from the same hymn sheet to defeat the president
By Sidney Blumenthal
For the first time, the US is hearing sustained criticism of its president and, though the Democratic presidential primaries have been going less than two weeks, the effect has been immediate. Bush was already rattled and preoccupied with his suddenly full-throated opposition even before the Iowa vote. He scheduled his state of the union address to follow it by a day, and it was the most poorly rated in modern times. By last weekend, his approval had fallen below 50 percent in a Newsweek poll and he was three points behind Senator John Kerry, the new Democratic frontrunner.

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By William Safire
"Something seems to have come over one of the world's best known boogeymen," wrote the New York Times correspondent Patrick Tyler from Tripoli about the new willingness of the Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi to submit to weaponry inspections.

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EU, US should cooperate

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