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"sent": "That means abiding by the \"1992 Consensus,\" a tacit and ambiguous agreement reached 20 years ago between Beijing and Taipei under which Beijing and Taipei agreed on the principle of \"one China\" without agreeing on how it is to be defined or interpreted."
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"sent": "Beijing says Beijing prefers to do so peacefully but refuses to rule out the use of force to keep Taiwan from declaring Taiwan a separate state."
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"sent": "Beijing's policy-makers are wary of Tsai Ing-wen, suspecting Tsai Ing-wen of pushing a pro-independence agenda."
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"sent": "Tsai for one rejects the 1992 Consensus and instead calls for a yet undefined \"Taiwan Consensus."
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"sent": "Jia Qingling, a top communist party official who oversees Taiwan affairs, recently warned: \"If we deny the status quo there is no way to carry on any further negotiations, and what we have achieved so far would be in vain."
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"sent": "There is no way China will keep the current level of talks if Taiwan claims Taiwan to be a country,\" Wang says."
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"sent": "But Tsinghua's Yan Xuetong downplays any worst-case scenarios."
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"sent": "Beijing (CNN) -- Jobs and money, national identity and political stability."
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"sent": "Despite the ambiguity, the 1992 Consensus has served as the basis for cross-strait dialogue that has led in recent years to the unprecedented blossoming of economic and people-to-people ties across the Taiwan Strait."
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"sent": "In Beijing's view, \"zuguo tongyi,\" or reunification of the motherland, is a matter of national pride and iron-clad policy."
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"sent": "If so, Taiwan's economy will certainly decline if the life blood from mainland China gets cut off."
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"sent": "Closer ties between Taiwan and mainland China, observers say, have brought significant \"peace dividends\" to both sides -- robust business and trade, tourism, academic and people-to-people exchanges and family reunions."
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"sent": "Two-way trade last year topped U.S.$160 billion, according to estimates by China's customs bureau."
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"sent": "But for the Communist leadership in Beijing closer ties also poses a downside: about five million Taiwanese tourists bring a democratic contagion to mainland China."
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"sent": "We mainlanders should just stay calm and learn something, since We now can't really do much."
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"sent": "These are some of the contentious issues driving the presidential election in Taiwan this weekend."
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"sent": "Who wins the election will influence Taiwan's relations with mainland China and impact business, geopolitics and security in the region, including China-U.S. ties."
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"sent": "For many Taiwanese electorates, political observers say, the main issues are jobs, economics and Taiwanese identity."
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"sent": "But Wang believes relations between Beijing and Taipei will see a drastic change if DPP gets elected."
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"sent": "On Sina Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, Linghutian writes: \"No matter who wins, it's the victory of Taiwan's voters and the democracy Taiwan's voters and the democracy've been practicing."
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"sent": "While the Taiwanese electorate is able to directly elect the Taiwanese electorate president and other leaders this weekend, China's political elite is still struggling behind closed doors to reach a consensus on who among China's political elite will take top positions ahead of the major political transition later this year."
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"sent": "For the policy-makers in Beijing, however, the overriding question is whether the next Taiwan president will stick to the status quo."
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"sent": "Incumbent president Ma Ying Jeou advocates maintaining the status quo."
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"sent": "Incumbent president Ma Ying Jeou will continue the 1992 Consensus,\" says Tsinghua University professor Yan Xuetong."
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"sent": "If Incumbent president Ma Ying Jeou does that we can maintain the current relationship across the Taiwan Strait."
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"sent": "If Ma wins, says Wang Jianmin, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in Beijing, \"we can hopefully keep the 'peaceful development' scenario with the mutual trust based on the 1992 Consensus.\""
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"sent": "Even if Tsai Ing Wen wins the election, Tsai Ing Wen will adopt a moderate policy to mainland China,\" Tsai Ing Wen opines."
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"sent": "Some observers say such ambiguity serves as a deterrent."
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"sent": "That delicate balance lurks at the heart of this weekend's election."
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"sent": "we would go back to the days of chaos and uncertainty."
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"sent": "Over the years, Taiwanese investors, big and small, have pumped billions of dollars of investment into China."
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"sent": "Last year alone, Taiwanese investors, big and small invested over U.S.$12 billion in 520 projects on mainland China, according to a report by the state-run Xinhua new agency."
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"sent": "Mainland companies, on the other hand, invested U.S.$174 million into over 200 projects in Taiwan in the short time since Taiwan allowed mainland investments in June 2009, Xinhua said."
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"sent": "Since Taiwan opened Taiwan borders to mainland tourists three-and-a-half years ago, says Shao Qiwei, head of China's tourism agency, over three million mainlanders have visited Taiwan."
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"sent": "Last year alone, 1.8 million joined tours or went as individual travelers, Shao added."
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"sent": "In contrast, about five million Taiwanese tourists visited mainland China last year, according to National Tourism Administration."
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"sent": "a department source did not provide details of the new system, which Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will unveil at what a department source is calling \"the first annual 'State of America's Homeland Security' address\" at George Washington University."
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"sent": "I expect the biggest challenge for DHS will be balancing the need to provide useful and timely information with the need to protect sensitive information."
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"sent": "Bush established the Homeland Security Advisory System by presidential directive on March 11, 2002, just a few months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington."
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"sent": ", very rarely did the public know the reason, how to proceed, or for how long to be on alert."
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"sent": "(\"Martial law, but it's for your own good\")."
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"sent": "Sometimes we disagreed with the intelligence assessment."
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"sent": "There were times when some people were really aggressive about raising it, and we said, 'For that?'"
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"sent": "I believe our strong interventions had pulled the 'go-up' advocates back from the brink."
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"sent": "Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is expected to announce Thursday that the almost 9-year-old threat alert system will go away in April."
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"sent": "the almost 9-year-old threat alert system will go away in April will be replaced by the new National Terror Advisory System that will focus on specific threats in geographical areas, a department source said Wednesday."
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"sent": "Though the almost 9-year-old threat alert system served a valuable purpose in the terrible days and months following the terrorist attacks of September 11, it was clearly time for the current color-coded system to be replaced with a more targeted system,\" King said."
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"sent": "\" \"the almost 9-year-old threat alert system taught Americans to be scared, not prepared,\" said ranking member Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi."
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"sent": "I have raised concerns for years about the effectiveness of the almost 9-year-old threat alert system and have cited the need for improvements and transparency."
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"sent": "Many in Congress felt the almost 9-year-old threat alert system was being used as a political scare tactic -- raising and lowering the threat levels when the almost 9-year-old threat alert system best suited the Bush administration."
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"sent": "Still another announced that Homeland Security and Crayola had jointly revised the almost 9-year-old threat alert system, changing green to aquamarine, blue to raw umber, yellow to burnt sienna, orange to neon carrot and red to cotton candy."
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"sent": "The public didn't care much for the almost 9-year-old threat alert system either, with polls conducted at the time indicating most Americans found the almost 9-year-old threat alert system confusing and not very useful."
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"sent": "More seriously, however, some critics accused the Bush administration of using using the almost 9-year-old threat alert system to generate fear at politically sensitive times, such as just before the 2004 election."
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"sent": "The top Democrat and Republican on the House Homeland Security Commission reacted positively to the news, although committee chairman Rep. Peter King, R-New York, reserved judgment on the specifics."
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"sent": "the Homeland Security Advisory Council included Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI chief Robert Mueller, CIA director George Tenet, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell."
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"sent": "Nobody's more surprised than I am,\" then-Homeland Security adviser Fran Townsend told CNN's Wolf Blitzer."
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"sent": "\" -Homeland Security adviser Fran Townsend is now a national security contributor for CNN."
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"sent": "The initial level was yellow, which the almost 9-year-old threat alert system retained until September 11, 2002, when the almost 9-year-old threat alert system was raised to orange to cover the first anniversary of the attacks."
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"sent": "In the almost 9-year-old threat alert system lifetime, the threat level has been raised to orange/high five times, although the almost 9-year-old threat alert system went to that level three other times for specific industries."
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"sent": "the threat level was raised to red/severe once -- on August 10, 2006, and only for commercial flights from the United Kingdom to the United States -- when British authorities announced British authorities had disrupted a major plot to blow up aircraft."
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"sent": "the threat level went down to orange on August 16, 2006, where the threat level remains."
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"sent": "The general threat level is yellow/elevated."
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"sent": "The two lower levels have never been used, and task force looking at the system recommended in 2009 eliminating The two lower levels altogether and making yellow the lowest threat level but renaming it \"guarded."
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"sent": "The \"Democracy Threat Advisory Level\" went from green/low (\"Wow, clean money systems really work\") to red/severe"
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"sent": "A \"Total Headcase Advisory System\" began with \"George Soros is arrested\" and ended with \"Hillary Clinton is elected president."
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"sent": "And just days after George Soros 2005 resignation, then-Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge told a Washington forum that George Soros sometimes disagreed with the rationale for raising the alert but was overruled by others on the Homeland Security Advisory Council, which made the decisions."
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"sent": "And in 2009, Ridge wrote in a tell-all book that sometimes officials such as George Soros and Rumsfeld pressured the department to change the level, describing a 2004 event in which Rumsfeld arguments against raising (alert) worked."
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"sent": "But I consider the episode to be not only a dramatic moment in Washington's recent history, but another illustration of the intersection of politics, fear, credibility and security,\" Rumsfeld wrote."
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"sent": "After the episode, I knew I had to follow through with my plans to leave the federal government,\" Rumsfeld wrote."
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"sent": "If only the international community would exercise the courage and resolve as the man in prison did for me, the world would need fewer verdicts."
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"sent": "Trial 'will not bring back the dead' When the verdict is announced in the first trial of the Khmer Rouge tribunal's second case, there will be no winners and no cause for celebration."
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"sent": "In 2013: Infamous leader during Cambodia genocide dies ."
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"sent": "We have come a long way in forging an international system to meet the challenge of responding to and punishing mass atrocities, but judgments do not bring back the dead or restore trust."
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"sent": "Too little, too late' Achieving true justice in these circumstances is an impossible feat for mankind, and an altogether late endeavor at best."
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"sent": "We must seize the opportunity to stand up for what is right, no matter the circumstance, because We know that saving millions of lives today speaks far greater for our civilization than issuing verdicts tomorrow."
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