On Monday, Chiang Pin-kun (江丙坤), vice chairman of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), led a delegation consisting of KMT legislators and party members on a mission to China.

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By Paul Lin 林保華
Around the time of the passage of the "Anti-Secession" Law, China showed that it was concerned about Taiwan and the international community's reaction to the law by trying to create an "atmosphere of peace."

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By Liu Kuan-teh 劉冠德
So, Taiwan won the first round by successfully telling the world that democracy and peace should prevail over China's belligerent move to enact the "Anti-Secession Law." With a rational but steadfast demonstration of public will, the March 26 parade sent a clear message to the Beijing leadership that only the people of Taiwan can decide their own future.

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Traditionalists are closing ranks to ensure their grip on church will endure
By James Doward
It is a question being asked with ever greater urgency in the upper echelons of the Roman Catholic hierarchy: to what extent will Pope John Paul II's legacy to the church be a clone of himself?

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By Jonathan Watts
If you were to map an emotional topography of China, the valleys of grief and resentment would run deepest in the rubbish-strewn alleys of Fengtai, near South Beijing railway station. Even for a nation with hundreds of millions of hard-luck stories, the tales of rough justice, corruption and violence do not come much more pitiful; nor do they come as carefully typed, hand-written, photocopied in triplicate and personally sealed.

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By El Hassan bin Talal
The attempts now being made to revive the "road map" to a final settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the creation of a Palestinian state are at only a preliminary stage. The recent international conference in London, aimed at supporting reforms in the Palestinian Authority and shoring up support for renewed negotiations with Israel, is one of those preliminary efforts.

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By Jeff Geer
I am concerned about the fallacies behind the idea of Taiwan's neutrality in East Asia, supported by Arthur Waldron as a potential solution for Taiwan's security(Letters, March 23, page 8).

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