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Taiwan poll good for China relations

Rowan Callick - China correspondent

TAIWAN'S opposition Nationalist Party yesterday won a landslide victory in legislative elections, giving a big boost to its policy of closer engagement with China just two manths before a presidential poll it now seems poised to win.

As a result of the vote, Asia's top danger zone, the Taiwan Strait, where China has deployed 1000 missiles, appears destined for detente.

The opposition centre-right Koumintang(KMT, or Nationalist) landslide points to a likely victory for its candidate election on March 22.

This would open the door to warmer relations with China, which has vilified outgoing President Chen Shui-bian, leader of the centre-left Democratic Progressive Party, as a dangerous "splittist".
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Pacific islands 'not ready' for Asian influence

ASIA is replacing the West as the major influence on the Pacific islands, according to an important new book published by the Fiji-based University of the South Pacific.

But it warns that the region is failing to build sufficient Asia-savvy skills to ralise the opportunities the shift brings, or to guard against the risks.

The book's author, Ron Crocombe, 78, an emeritus pfofessor at the university, is one of the best-regarded researchers on Pcific issues. He says that in terms of external military influence, the Pacific was known from the 1500s as "a Spanish lake, from the late 1700s as "a Britishlake", and from World War II "an American lake". Today, the Asian powers are vying for that title, as China and Taiwan, Japan and India compete for influence.

The first wave of Asian influence came in the form of the original human settlers, first ethnic Papuans and then Austronesians, who arrived from the arc of islands along the Pacific coast of Asia, from Taiwan through to The Philippines ans eastern Indonesia.

The second wave came with unskilled workers employed on islands controlled by colonial powers. A century ago, Crocombe says, "Asians were among the least educated, poorest and lowest status people in the region".

In the past 30 years, there has been a third wave, principally in four categories;
1 Low-skill, low-cost workers for factories, hotels, restaurants, logging camps, fisheries, mines and brothels.

2 Professionals, mostly from countries with low incomes and where English is widely spoken.

3 Entrepreneures, at first mainly from Taiwan or ethnic Chinese from Southeast Asia, but now also from Japan, South Korea and India, with a few Sri Lankans and Filipinos.

4 Organised crime - the speculative nature of some of the new industries, the generally weak policing, Customs and immigration servies, and some corrupt local politicians and officials, provide and opening for crininals.

"(Organised crime) first became apparent in Micronesia, with Japanese, the Korean, criminals. Now the most extensive and virulent crime is from China," Crocombe says.
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We won't back containment, Singh assures China

Bruce Loudon New Dalhi

INDIAN Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrive in Beijing on a three-day visit yesterday, insisting he would have no part in any alliance with the US, Australia and Japan aimed at "containing China".

Dr Singh arrived for talks with China's leaders as the two most populous nations looked to turn their combined clout into a major force in gobal affairs.

The first visit by an Indian premier in five years comes as the Asian powerhouses, which for a third of the world's people, try to set aside lingering disputes and establish a partnership on the international stage.

"I have made it clear to the Chinese leadership that India is not part of any so-called 'contain China effort," Dr Singh said. The Indian leader was opting out of nations that New Delhi might, alongside Australia, the US and Japan, form part of a new "quadrilateral" strategic pact conceived by Tokyo's former prime minister Shinzo Abe before he was driven from office.

The "quadrilateral" concept has had little traction since Mr Abe's resignation, and the rejection of it by Dr Singh yesterday suggests it may be stillborn.

Dr Singh said he hoped to discuss a wide range of issues with Chinese leaders including UN reforms, regional dialogue and global issues, such as climate change, energy security, internatinal trade and counter-terrorism. Trade would clearly predominate, as shown by the large delegation of business leaders accompanying Dr Singh on his trip.

Trade between the world's two fastest-growing major economies has passed the $35 billion mark. But there are problems: India is unhappy that the trade balance is so heavily skewed in China
s favour, while China resents the fact that it is proscribed from bidding for some of India's biggest economic and strategic projects, such as port construction, because of longstanding suspicions between the two contries.
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Clinton gaffe on civil rights lights race fuse

Correspondents in Washington

THE explosive issue of race spilled out this week in the increasingly close-quarters battle between Hillary Clinton and African-American Barack Obama to become the Democratic Party's presidential nominee.

With Senator Obama hoping to be elected the first black US president, and a key primary contest looming on January 26 in the heavily black state of South Carolina, the issue has rattled both campaigns and put Senator Clinton on the defensive.

Black voters and politicians who strongly backed Senator Clinton's husband Bill's 1993-2001 presidency have taken umbrage at perceived slights against Senator Obama and the US civil rights movement from both of the Clintons this week.

James Clyburn, the highest-ranking African-American in Congress and a leading Democratic powerbroker in South Carolina, suggested to 'The New York Times' that he might endorse Senator Obama in the wake of the Clinton's remarks - a move that could help swing the state in Senator Obama's favour.

"We have to be very, very careful about how we speak about that era in American politics," Mr Clyburn said of the 1960s, when the battle for equal rights for blacks peaked.

Senator Obama's ethinic background - he is the son of a black Kenyan father and white American mother - has always lain in the background of the presidential race.
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House prices reach for the heavens in city of churches

John Wiseman

ADELAIDE has shrugged off its reputation as the perennidal under-performer in the national property market, with suggestions that some suburbs have recorded annual price rise more than 60 per cent.

The latest government figures were in sharp contrast to data from Sydney which showed large parts of the harbour city treading water or sinking.

Adelaide real estate industry leaders urged caution about the figures, but conceded that it appeared median prices across the metropolitan area jumped almost 20 per cent last year. In contrast, Sydney's west and southwestern mortgage belts have seen property values drop by up to 7 per cent at a time of repeated interest rate rises.

Some Sydney home owners may now have negative equity in their properties as they face the prospect of the Reserve Bank proceeding with another interest rate rise next month.

Real Estate Institute of South Australian president Robin Turner yesterday said Adelaide had been buoyed by unprecedented optimism in the past few years. "I think it's cast away its Cinderella attitude - it's been very, very obvious to me in the last half decade we've come of age," he said.
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台湾の選挙で野党が大勝して台湾独立派の与党からより親中国になりそうです。

太平洋諸島国は伝統的に西洋の影響下にありましたがそれが東アジア諸国の競争の場となりつつあります。
日本､中国､台湾､韓国などが自国の勢力を拡大しようと躍起になってます。

中国へインドの大統領さんが訪問中です。　中国包囲網にインドは参加しないと言っていますが現在の中印貿易不均衡改善を中国に求めています。

アメリカの大統領候補選が民主党で行われています。
オバマ氏はお父さんがケニアからの黒人でお母さんはアメリカの白人です。　ヒラリーおよびビル･クリントンは彼を経験が浅いなどと批判しておりますが､かえって大衆の反感をあおってしまう結果にもなっています。
初の黒人大統領か初の女性大統領かと注目を浴びていますが､政策自体への注視のなおざりが一部で嘆かれています。

アデレードの不動産の上昇率がすごいそうです。　
高くなりすぎたシドニーはローンの年率上昇に音を上げた西および南西地区が値下がりしています。

(2008.01.15 14:14:54)

オーストラリアもいろいろな問題がありそうですね。

日本は今かなり大変ですよ。


chatswoodbbさん
＞台湾の選挙で野党が大勝して台湾独立派の与党からより親中国になりそうです。
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＞太平洋諸島国は伝統的に西洋の影響下にありましたがそれが東アジア諸国の競争の場となりつつあります。
＞日本､中国､台湾､韓国などが自国の勢力を拡大しようと躍起になってます。
＞
＞中国へインドの大統領さんが訪問中です。　中国包囲網にインドは参加しないと言っていますが現在の中印貿易不均衡改善を中国に求めています。
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＞アメリカの大統領候補選が民主党で行われています。
＞オバマ氏はお父さんがケニアからの黒人でお母さんはアメリカの白人です。　ヒラリーおよびビル･クリントンは彼を経験が浅いなどと批判しておりますが､かえって大衆の反感をあおってしまう結果にもなっています。
＞初の黒人大統領か初の女性大統領かと注目を浴びていますが､政策自体への注視のなおざりが一部で嘆かれています。
＞
＞アデレードの不動産の上昇率がすごいそうです。　
＞高くなりすぎたシドニーはローンの年率上昇に音を上げた西および南西地区が値下がりしています。
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(2008.01.16 02:33:26)

恵美子777さん
見ていますが福田さんは地道によくやっているという印象をもってます。　個人個人が世界に目を向けて生きなければならない時代になっています。(2008.01.16 04:38:08)