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Editorial - Where is Taiwan's Vision? |
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Where is Taiwan's Vision?
AmCham's advocacy agenda, as reflected in the position papers in the annual Taiwan White Paper, inevitably tends to focus on proposing immediate solutions to current problems. Similarly, the discussion of public affairs by Taiwan's political figures, mass media, and other opinion leaders is ordinarily centered on the issues of the day - when it doesn't get mired in debates over decades-old events.
All too rarely does anyone take the opportunity to step back, try to peer into the future, and pose some pertinent questions: What are the longer-range goals for this economy and society? What will need to be done, starting now, to enable those objectives to be accomplished? What obstacles will have to be overcome?
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Commentary: Real Leadership |
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Real Leadership
The best political leaders both inform and shape public opinion. One of the more significant requirements for strengthening Taiwan's social, political, and economic status by the year 2020 will be the rise of leaders who do more than just shape public opinion. The past seven years have witnessed an unhealthy - and often unseemly - evolution of leadership that pursues cross-faction and cross-party rhetorical vendettas, sows unnecessarily disruptive ethnic discord, and exhibits a profound pettiness of personal interaction that has soured the public image of political factional and party leaders. Nasty innuendo, false and unsubstantiated claims, bogus statistics, and a seemingly endless string of legally frivolous lawsuits dominate media reporting on current leaders and their interactions.
To what end? Despite the consummate skills of Taiwan's political leaders in galvanizing public sentiment to participate in parades, protest marches, and sit-ins, comparatively little effort is expended in cultivating public understanding of critical issues that seriously affect public welfare and economic wellbeing. It is, of course, easy to argue interminably about sovereignty, dignity, and identity without doing much homework. But it takes real research and reflection before one can substantively address issues that worry the average person on the street, such as job creation, taxation, healthcare, educational reform, and public services such as safe drinking water, adequate power supplies, and vastly improved sewage treatment.
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By Jane Rickards
- MACROECONOMICS
GROWTH FORECASTS REVISED UPWARDS
CROSS-STRAIT
CHINA OFFERS PEACE AGREEMENT, OF SORTS
LONG-RANGE MISSILE BUDGET REJECTED
- DOMESTIC
DPP TORCH RELAY PROMOTES U.N. BID
CONVICTED CRIMINALS OKAYED AS CANDIDATES
THOUSANDS FLOCK TO GANGSTER'S FUNERAL
INTERNATIONAL
TAIWAN PROTESTS MYANMAR CRACKDOWN
EU JOINS OPPOSITION TO REFERENDUM PLANS
BUSINESS
WEF FINDS TAIWAN LESS COMPETITIVE
RULES EASED ON CHINA HOLDINGS BY FUNDS
YOUTUBE LAUNCHES TAIWANESE SITE
IBM AND MEDIATEK START CHIP R&D PROJECT
TAIWAN GAINING IN SEMICONDUCTOR VOLUME
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Vision 2020 - Setting the Agenda |
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Michael Kurtz is Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns Asia Ltd. |
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Vision 2020 - Economic Development |
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Chen Tain-jy, a professor of economics at National Taiwan University, was formerly president of the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research.
- Based on an interview with Jane Rickards.
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