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When we understand and respect Beijing's insistence on some aspects, we hope Beijing can understand and respect Taiwan's insistence on democracy and freedom.
Ko Wen-je
Hope
Freedom
Democracy
Respect
Some
Insistence
Taiwan
Understand
Beijing
Aspects
Taiwan isn't ruled by rule of law. Taiwan is a country of liars and fraudsters. Our politicians are full of lies. They change their position from one day to the next.
Ko Wen-je
Day
Change
Law
Country
Politicians
Liars
Our
Rule
Rule Of Law
Ruled
One Day
Lies
Taiwan
Next
Full
Position
For the world's four Chinese-speaking regions - Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and mainland China - the longer the colonization, the more advanced a place is.
Ko Wen-je
World
Hong Kong
More
Colonization
Taiwan
Advanced
Longer
Singapore
Kong
Place
China
Regions
Four
We have to convince mainland China that a free and democratic Taiwan is more in China's interest than reunification.
Ko Wen-je
Free
More
Taiwan
Democratic
Reunification
Than
China
Interest
Convince
Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
Ma Ying-jeou
Generation
Understanding
Believe
More
Taiwan
He
Leaders
Sophisticated
Ideological
Pragmatic
His
Than
Represents
Predecessors
Different
Much
Less
Many
With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
Ma Ying-jeou
Society
Took
About
Taiwan
Democratic
Democratic Society
Go
Years
Authoritarian
The election of the nationalist Chen Shui-bian as president in 2000 and his re-election in 2004 was a nadir in the relationship between Taiwan and the mainland.
Martin Jacques
Relationship
Election
President
Taiwan
Nadir
Between
Re-Election
His
Nationalist
These days, the manufacturing is controlled by a small number of countries, primarily Taiwan and South Korea.
Mary Lou Jepsen
Small
Taiwan
Primarily
Countries
Days
Korea
South
South Korea
Controlled
Manufacturing
Number
People often ask whether Obama passes the 'kishka test:' whether he likes Israel special, not in the same way he likes Taiwan or South Korea? Does he? I think the kishka test was decided when he visited Israel. I think the reaction there was emotional and genuine.
Michael Oren
People
Think
Way
Visited
Obama
Taiwan
Emotional
He
Likes
Reaction
Genuine
Does
Korea
Israel
Passes
Test
South
South Korea
Same
Often
Decided
Whether
Ask
Special
We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that.
Mike Johanns
Our
Markets
About
Taiwan
Open
Had
Excited
Lebanon
Beef
Egypt
I am a native of Taiwan, and I earned my bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University. I received my master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Min Kao
Degree
Master
National
Engineering
Earned
Bachelor
Degrees
Taiwan
Tennessee
Am
Native
Electrical
Received
University
Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask diplomatic allies to present its case before the United Nations this fall.
Nick Lampson
Will
Fall
Before
United Nations
Once
Diplomatic
Seeking
Case
Allies
Taiwan
Return
Nations
Republic
Again
China
Ask
Speaker
United
Present
Imagine a doctor in Chicago doing an operation for someone in Taiwan using robotic surgery. You want the doctor to feel immediate feedback to what the robot is experiencing.
Rajeev Suri
You
Doctor
Feedback
Robot
Immediate
Someone
Taiwan
Feel
Operation
Robotic
Surgery
Doing
Chicago
Want
Experiencing
Using
Imagine
Facebook is blocked in mainland China, but is used heavily by the rest of the Chinese-speaking world, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Facebook
World
Rest
Hong Kong
Taiwan
Singapore
Kong
Blocked
China
Used
Including
There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Great
Great Deal
Military
Further
Drifting
Taiwan
Concern
Reunification
Deal
China
Chinese
Away
Ronald Reagan, when he was campaigning for President, said that he would break relations with Communist China and re-establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan. But when he got into office, he pursued a very different policy of engagement with China and of increasing trade and business ties with China.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Business
Increasing
President
Relations
Would
Diplomatic
Diplomatic Relations
Pursued
Taiwan
He
Policy
Ties
Trade
Said
Got
Reagan
Campaigning
Very
Office
Different
Break
China
Ronald Reagan
Communist
Engagement
Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community.
Said Musa
People
Community
Pledges
Taiwan
Support
Participants
Continue
Agencies
Full
Aspirations
Organs
International
International Community
Million
Million People
When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
Sam Brownback
Friendship
Political
Space
Military
Relations
Our
System
Preventing
Could
Taiwan
Know
Concern
Force
Passed
Effectively
Friends
Did
Revolutionize
Political System
Biggest
Against
Little
Created
Act
Use
Military Force
Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.
Todd Akin
Democracy
People
Taiwan
Budding
Since
Democratic
Elections
I have this idea of a Taiwan Consensus, which means people in Taiwan have to get together and form a consensus of their own and that they turn around to talk to the Chinese to form a cross-strait consensus so we can build a relationship on that consensus. And in my view, that is the right order to do things.
Tsai Ing-wen
Relationship
Together
People
Build
Own
Taiwan
Idea
Talk
Around
Get
Get Together
Order
Form
Which
Chinese
Turn
Means
View
Right
Things
Consensus
We will work toward maintaining the status quo for peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait in order to bring the greatest benefits and well-being to the Taiwanese people.
Tsai Ing-wen
Work
Peace
People
Benefits
Will
Status
Status Quo
Taiwan
Taiwanese
Toward
Maintaining
Well-Being
Greatest
Stability
Order
Quo
Strait
Across
Bring
The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.
William C. Kirby
Political
Side
Economic
Taiwan
Concerns
Greater
China
A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations.
William C. Kirby
War
International Relations
Relations
Destroy
Would
Mention
Taiwan
Overnight
American
China
Chinese
Japanese
Strait
International
So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want.
William C. Kirby
Conflict
Example
States
Draw
Would
Would-Be
Area
Could
Taiwan
Outside
For Example
Powers
Revisit
Want
Anyone
Anything
Again
Japan
Interests
United
United States
Thing
Last
The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.
William C. Kirby
Relationship
Big
Brother
Taiwan
Generous
Big Brother
Issue
Might
Capacity
Manner
Much
I'm just so happy to see my friends and fans in Taiwan, 'cause that's where I'm from.
Yani Tseng
Happy
Cause
Fans
See
Taiwan
Friends
Just
Where
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