According to news of Agence France Presse (Mar. 22, 2006) : Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian assured the United States he would not push for independence during the rest of his term, after his decision to scrap a unification council touched nerves in Washington and Beijing.
"I would like to say again that my previous pledge to the US government and President Bush (not to push for independence) has not changed," he told the new de facto US embassador Stephen M. Young.
"The Taiwan government, its people and myself will continue to serve as a responsible contributor to the maintaining of peace in the Taiwan Strait," Chen said.
The president said he believed the relationship between Taiwan and the United States would become closer and promised that "there will not be any so-called surprise" before he retires in 2008.
Washington was caught unprepared when Chen last month formally scrapped the National Unification Council and guidelines on reunification with China.
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By the way, there is a big decision on the ETC's case announced by Vice Premier Mdm Tsai and endorsed by Premier Su. Most of people were stunned by this development. Column writer Ms Huang Kuang-Si wrote about this and she practically said this:
所以那麼令人耿耿於懷的地方在於，他(蘇貞昌)在上任之初就清楚知道ETC有錯，不僅是官商勾結有錯、甄審過程有錯、不平等條約訂得有錯、測試有錯、匆促上路有錯、未達公益標準有錯，就算過去有錯、而且一開始就錯，他無法扭轉，但他有能力防堵如何不一步錯、步步錯，以及過去有錯、現在不能再錯、未來更萬萬不得永無止盡繼續錯下去，否則的話，他何必在一開始態度擺得那麼強 硬、話說得比拼治安時還要重。他不瞭解，其實民眾並不在乎政府跪在地上向財團求來的680元OBU變相免費，而在意的是政府面對財團時那種前倨後恭、怕打官司、被逼上梁山的小二模樣。然而我們看到的正副閣揆竟然說以和為貴. 蘇內閣此時若要為自己的陽痿找藉口，還怕找不到一百個理由嗎？
Big Eagle says: 司法不上軌道, 民主政治就虛化. 戒哉!戒哉!
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