<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Tensions Over Taiwan</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/issues/taiwanarms?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</link><description>Tensions Over Taiwan</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Chen Dealt Setback In Taiwan Election]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58279-2004Dec11.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58279-2004Dec11.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ TAIPEI, Taiwan, Dec. 11 -- Taiwanese voters Saturday decided not to give President Chen Shui-bian the legislative majority he had sought in a hard-fought campaign as reinforcement for his leadership and endorsement of his plans to edge the self-ruled island closer to independence.]]></description><author> Edward Cody</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics Puts Hold on Taiwan Arms Purchase]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20889-2004Oct9.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20889-2004Oct9.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ TAIPEI, Taiwan, Oct. 10 -- A proposed $18.2 billion purchase of U.S. weapons by Taiwan has bogged down in the island's hard-fought electoral politics despite repeated warnings from the Bush administration that the new arms are imperative to bolster defenses against China.]]></description><author> Edward Cody</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taiwanese Lawmakers Approve Independence Referendum]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17088-2003Nov27.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17088-2003Nov27.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Taiwan's parliament approved a watershed bill Thursday allowing its people to vote on sovereignty and other issues. But it risks the wrath of China, which has vowed to attack the island if it declares independence.]]></description><author> Tim Culpan and Philip P. Pan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madame Chiang Kai-shek Dies at 105]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10174-2003Oct24.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10174-2003Oct24.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Madame Chiang Kai-shek, the widow of the Nationalist Chinese president who used her charm and fluent English to lobby Washington and become a driving force in Taiwan's Nationalist government, died yesterday in New York. She was 105.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[China Ready for Leap Into Orbit]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A337-2003Oct8.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A337-2003Oct8.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[China is counting down to the launch of a man into Earth orbit, which would make it the third country to embark on manned spaceflight.]]></description><author> John Pomfret</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[SARS Shows WHO Disease Hunters' Skills, and Limits]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59798-2003May30.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59798-2003May30.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In  an unobtrusive building tucked beside the World Health Organization's headquarters, a dozen disease hunters searched through their latest intelligence for clues that a new epidemic might be emerging somewhere in the world.]]></description><author> Rob Stein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taiwan Bidding  To Join WHO]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36764-2003May9.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36764-2003May9.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Taiwanese government is using its efforts to contain the disease as a way to argue that it should be part of the World Health Organization.]]></description><author> Shu Shin Luh  and John Pomfret</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[World]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53802-2003Apr18.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53802-2003Apr18.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ASIA  Huge Arms Cache Found in Afghanistan <br>   BAGRAM,     Afghanistan --  Romanian troops found the biggest stash of weapons yet in Afghanistan -- two caves stuffed with 3,000 107mm rockets, more than 1.25 million rounds of...]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[FBI Assesses Damage]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10812-2003Apr11.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10812-2003Apr11.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[FBI officials have told members of Congress that every Chinese counterintelligence case investigated since at least 1991 may have been compromised.]]></description><author> Susan Schmidt and Dan Eggen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two Charged in Export Case]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42437-2003Mar4.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42437-2003Mar4.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two Taiwanese men allegedly caught in a federal sting operation have been charged with conspiring to buy U.S. military technology for export to Iran, the U.S. attorney for Maryland announced yesterday.]]></description><author> Susan Levine</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[China Ends Flight Ban From Taiwan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43749-2003Jan25.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43749-2003Jan25.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It was the first time a Taiwanese carrier had landed in mainland China since 1949, when Mao's Communist Army conquered Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces and sent them fleeing to Taiwan.]]></description><author> Peter S. Goodman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[China Seeks to Link Missiles, Taiwan Arms]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32700-2002Dec9.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32700-2002Dec9.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jiang Zemin suggested during his October meeting with President Bush that China could link its deployment against Taiwan to U.S. arms sales to the island, a Chinese official said.]]></description><author> John Pomfret</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[China Signs Accords With Asian Group on Disputed Territory, Free Trade]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5382-2002Nov4.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5382-2002Nov4.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[BEIJING, Nov. 4 -- The Chinese government signed agreements today with the 10 countries of Southeast Asia to prevent open conflict over long-disputed areas of the South China Sea and to establish the world's largest free trade zone over the next decade.]]></description><author> Philip P. Pan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[China Embraces More Moderate Foreign Policy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7385-2002Oct23.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7385-2002Oct23.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Beijing is exhibiting new confidence  some call it maturity  and unprecedented acceptance of U.S. power in the world, according to Chinese and U.S. officials and analysts.]]></description><author> John Pomfret</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wife of Taiwan's President To Visit U.S.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42153-2002Sep19.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42153-2002Sep19.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The wife of President Chen Shui-bian left for the United States today for a landmark visit that could anger China.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WASHINGTON IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A395-2002Sep11.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A395-2002Sep11.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Taiwanese Official  Visits Pentagon <br>Taiwan's deputy defense minister held talks with Defense Department officials yesterday. He is the highest-ranking Taiwanese defense official to visit the Pentagon in at least 23 years.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WASHINGTON IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43736-2002Sep5.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43736-2002Sep5.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Anti-Coca Chemicals Used in Colombia Toxic <br>A government report released yesterday acknowledged that U.S.-supplied chemicals used for the eradication of coca plants in Colombia have the potential for "acute eye toxicity."]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crisis Eases in Taiwan Strait]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64372-2002Aug9.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64372-2002Aug9.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A week after Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian gave a controversial speech about the island's relationship to China, both sides seem to have backed away from a new confrontation.]]></description><author> John Pomfret</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[China Warns Taiwan Military Action Possible]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52804-2002Aug6.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52804-2002Aug6.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Wednesday) -- Taiwan faces a growing possibility of military action by China if "radical pro-independence moves" continue on the island, the Chinese government warned today through its state-run media.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[China Buildup Said to Target Taiwan, U.S.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63405-2002Jul12.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63405-2002Jul12.html?nav=rss_world/issues/taiwanarms</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In a comprehensive assessment of China's military aspirations, the Pentagon said that sustained increases in defense spending and new high-tech weaponry give Beijing "an increasing number of credible options to intimidate or actually attack Taiwan."]]></description><author> Vernon Loeb</author></item></channel></rss>