幾段原文：U.S.-Taiwan Relationship: Overview of Policy Issues

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U.S.-Taiwan Relationship: Overview of Policy Issues

Shirley A. Kan    Specialist in Asian Security Affairs

Wayne M. Morrison    Specialist in Asian Trade and Finance

July 23, 2013

有關軍售

… Taiwan formally calls itself the sovereign Republic of China (ROC), tracing its political lineage to the

ROC set up after the revolution in 1911 in China.  The ROC government retreated to Taipei in

1949. The United States recognized the ROC until the end of 1978 and has maintained a nondiplomatic

relationship with Taiwan after recognition of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Beijing in 1979.  The State Department claims an “unofficial” U.S. relationship with Taiwan, despite official contacts that include arms sales…

馬不守承諾，國防預算逐年衰減

The United States has concerns that Taiwan under President Ma has not given sufficient priority to defense and cut the defense budget in 2009, 2010, and 2011 until an increase in 2012.  The 2013 budget ($10.5 billion) is a small drop from that in 2012.   President Ma has failed to reach the promised defense spending at 3% of GDP, even as Taiwan’s military shifts from conscripts to volunteer personnel.  There are increasing concerns about whether Taiwan’s military is hollowing out with problems in recruitment and retention in trying to set up a volunteer force by 2015 without sufficient resources and commitment by the leadership.  On July 20, 2013, an estimated 30,000 demonstrators protested at the MND, after the death of a corporal on July 3 reportedly from heatstroke while in detention.  Even before the incident that could harm recruitment and retention, MND reached only 10.6% of its goal for the year, signing 1,847 out of 17,447 recruits.

熱移轉派里級軍艦

…On February 26, Senator Daniel Coats introduced S. 12, the Naval Vessel Transfer Act of 2013, to authorize the sale of excess Perry-class frigates to Taiwan.

台灣未曾尋求潛艇技術援助

…The Defense Department’s response acknowledged that the United States has reviewed since 2008 Taiwan’s request for a submarine design and noted that Taiwan has not requested technical assistance for a submarine program.

 

1992年起美即敦促引渡，香港可借鏡

In December 1992, the Senate Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Investigations recommended negotiation of an extradition agreement with Taiwan as soon as possible.  A precedent for congressional consideration could be the U.S.-Hong Kong extradition agreement

國民黨政府在司法改革做得不夠，馬已殘害民主且不批評北京，扁案更是司法濫權

Concerned observers say that Taiwan under the KMT has not done enough to promote those values in the PRC or judicial reforms in Taiwan.  Some have questioned whether the Ma Administration has downplayed democracy promotion by the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD) and has been less welcoming to those attacked by Beijing, such as political dissidents, Tibetan leader Dalai Lama, Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer, and Falun Gong practitioners.

Trials of former president Chen Shui-bian (who has been sentenced to prison for 20 years in ongoing cases for corruption but also found not guilty of other charges) heightened scrutiny of pre-indictment and pre-trial detentions, prosecutorial leaks, other misconduct, transparency of judicial procedures, and prisoners’ freedom of speech.