The Bush administration has been sending contradictory messages to China in the last two years, damaging US strategic interests in East Asia. So Thursday's phone call between US President George W. Bush and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) comes as a relief.

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By Su Beng 史明
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Lien Chan (連戰) has completed his journey of reconciliation between the KMT and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The international media believes that his trip was historically significant. But the Taiwanese people must insist on our own stance. Although this is just a tiny land, we must think twice whether to put its future in the hands of the notorious KMT.

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By Michelle Wang王美琇
In an interview with a Taiwanese radio station, a Chinese democracy activist recently lamented that "you [Taiwanese] live in paradise while we [Chinese] live in hell. There is freedom in Taiwan while there is not any in China."

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By Simon Tisdall
The voices of Europe's ruling class are growing shriller as the daunting prospect of a French rejection of the EU's constitutional treaty creeps closer. But the political aristocracy's clamor may be falling on deaf ears.

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Crusading for democracy, freedom of the press, North Korea's weapons program and peace in the Middle East will be on the agenda when the US leader meets his Russian counterpart
US President George W. Bush will join Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday for ceremonies commemorating the end of World War II in Europe.

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By Rudy Chen
As a taxpayer, I would very much like to know whether there is a specific person in Taiwan in charge of correcting and responding to the statements, news and announcements broadcast on the official Web site of China's Taiwan Affairs Office. If not, I strongly insist on building a mechanism to do this. If there's already someone in a position paid to do such things, we'd like for him or her to do the job -- if not well, at least not this errantly.

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