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Population: 22,920,946
Debt: $97.85 billion
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Hemmed in by his supporters and a public wary of closer rapprochement with China, President Ma Ying-jeou does not expect much from his country’s African engagements in 2010. He is long overdue for an official visit to one of Taiwan’s four remaining African allies if he is to quash talk of some seeking to switch camps.

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  • Vol 5 No 3
  •  January 2012

Recognition mission

China’s favoured candidate stays in office, but Taiwan will struggle to participate in international bodies and overcome security challenges

  • Vol 5 No 3
  •  January 2012

The diplomatic truce goes on

President Ma Ying-jeou’s election victory on 14 January gave comfort to those who feared that an opposition win might rupture the delicate détente between China and Taiwan – and herald an end to the ‘diplomatic truce’ that has prevented China from wooing ...

  • Vol 4 No 10
  •  August 2011

Ready, able and unlikely

Officials at Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) are playing down reports that the government is mulling a naval escort for its ships facing the threat of piracy in the Gulf of Aden. ‘That was just a discussion,’ an official in the Department...

  • Vol 4 No 9
  •  July 2011

Trucking trials

The trial of Jack Hsieh (Hsieh Ping-sung) and his four truckers, accused of defrauding powerful Zimbabwean interests, rumbles on. Hsieh, who is from Taiwan and has South African nationality, was charged some months ago with fraud over the purchase and del...

  • Vol 4 No 6
  •  April 2011

What the doctor ordered

The corruption trial of Malawi’s former President Bakili Muluzi at the Blantyre High Court exposes the lack of transparency and good governance in Taiwan’s aid to African countries. Bakili Muluzi, 69, stands accused of misappropriating US$12 million ...

  • Vol 4 No 5
  •  March 2011

Friends and benefits

Veteran oppositionist Michael ‘King Cobra’ Sata often accuses President Rupiah Banda and the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy of being too cosy with China. Now Sata stands accused of having his own Asian links. On 14 March, an aricle in the state-...

  • Vol 4 No 5
  •  March 2011

Jen-Chih 'Robert' Huang

Chief Executive Officer, Mpisi 74

  • Vol 4 No 2
  •  December 2010

Wu Den-yih

Premier, Taiwan

  • Vol 3 No 9
  •  July 2010

Changing sides with profit

Malawi has profitably switched its allegiance to China from Taiwan with a price tag of over US$350 million. In the past two years, China has taken over road and building projects from Taiwan and added more soft loans. Lilongwe's official relationship w...

  • Vol 3 No 9
  •  July 2010

Wang Jin-pyng

President, Legislative Yuan, Taiwan

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