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Taiwan China 2 - WRAP Protest and preps ahead of China envoy's visit ADDS protest
12/20/2009
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NAME: TAI CHINA2 20091220I TAPE: EF09/1186 IN_TIME: 10:45:04:03 DURATION: 00:02:49:13 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION/ETTV DATELINE: Taipei/Taichung - 17-20 Dec 2009 RESTRICTIONS: Check shotlist for details SHOTLIST: AP TELEVISION Taichung, 20 December 2009 1. Wide of anti-China protest in Taichung City, Central Taiwan 2. Mid of protesters marching 3. Wide of protesters chanting slogan (Mandarin): "Rooting for Taiwan" 4. Protesters marching with poster reading (English): "Taiwan is not part of China" 5. Close-up of a poster reading (Mandarin): "Anti-unification" 6. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin): Yang Yiue-Ching, protester: "Before the cross-strait talk starts, China should remove all the missiles aimed at Taiwan. We should stand equally when talking to China in the meeting." 7. Wide of protesters holding poster reading (English): "One Taiwan, One China" 8. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin): Emily Ling, Local resident: "We don't know what governments between two sides will be talking about. Here we suffer the serious problems of economic downturn. Our government should solve the problems first before talking to China." 9. Top shot of protesters marching 10. Opposition party members walking in the crowd 11. Tracking shot man cheering with gas horn 12. Top shot of protesters marching 13. Close-up of Chinese flag on the ground dragged by protester ETTV - NO ACCESS TAIWAN/HONG KONG Taichung, 20 December 2009 14. Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen protesting with other officials 15. Zoom in of protest 16. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin): Tsai Ing-wen, Chairwoman of Democratic Progressive Party: "We welcome more people to come over for the protest later today. Secondly, we call on the protesters to discipline themselves. Third, we demand justice from the government but not threaten the protesters while maintaining security. Finally, we hope the Chinese guests learn to behave well and to respect the rules of the host, and respect the feelings of the people." AP TELEVISION Taipei, 17 December 2009 17. Wide of Chiang Pin-kung, Chairman of Taiwan Strait Exchange Foundation, during news conference 18. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin): Chiang Pin-kung, Chairman of Taiwan Strait Exchange Foundation: "I sincerely call on the opposition party and protesters to remain peaceful and rational, to observe the law, and give the protest a peaceful ending, but not repeating the same way like last time." ETTV - NO ACCESS TAIWAN/HONG KONG Taichung, 19 December 2009 19. Mid of protester attaching banner to balloon 20. Wide of two balloons with attached banners flying outside hotel where Chinese envoy Chen Yunlin is expected to stay 21. Balloon with attached banner with sign written in Chinese characters reading: "Stop prosecuting Falun Gong" (The Falun Gong movement has a history of disrupting overseas visits by Chinese leaders) 22. Top shot of police barricade outside hotel 23. Tilt down from hotel to traffic 24. Police officers on motorbikes next to barricade 25. Close up of barbed wire on barricade with sign reading (in Chinese characters): "Dangerous! Please don't touch" STORYLINE: Tens of thousands of opposition demonstrators marched through the streets of the central Taiwanese city of Taichung on Sunday, ahead of the arrival of a senior Chinese envoy for five days of talks with local officials. The demonstrators chanted pro-independence slogans and waved anti-China banners to protest the visit of China's top Taiwan negotiator, Chen Yunlin, whom they view as a stalking horse for Beijing's proclaimed policy of bringing Taiwan back into its fold. The sides split amid civil war in 1949. Chen was scheduled to arrive in Taichung on Monday. He is set to sign four new commercial accords with Taiwanese officials, adding to the 10 already in the books. Buoyed by a strong showing in local elections earlier this month, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) sponsored Sunday's demonstration to press home its message that Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou's signature policy of tightening economic links with Beijing is threatening the well-being of Taiwan's people and paving the way for a Chinese takeover. Police put Sunday's crowd in Taichung at 20-30-thousand, considerably fewer than the DPP's estimate of 100-thousand. Some 500 officers were on hand to control the protesters, mindful that a visit by Chen late last year provoked repeated clashes between authorities and demonstrators. Some protesters were seen attaching banners to balloons near the hotel, with signs reading: "Stop prosecuting Falun Gong". The Falun Gong movement has a history of disrupting overseas visits by Chinese leaders. China banned Falun Gong in 1999 on the mainland. Since assuming office in May 2008, Ma has eased cross-strait tensions to their lowest level in 60 years, turning his back on his predecessor Chen Shui-Bian's pro-independence policies amid a welter of business-boosting initiatives. They include launching regular air and sea links between the sides and ending across-the-board restrictions on Chinese investment in Taiwan precursors, Ma says, to a partial Taiwan-China trade agreement meant to be signed next year. Taiwan's powerful business community strongly favours Ma's approach, seeing it as necessary to prevent the island's economic marginalisation amid growing trade ties between Beijing and neighbouring Asian countries. Washington also supports it enthusiastically. Despite shifting its China recognition from Taipei to Beijing in 1979, it remains Taiwan's most important foreign partner and fears being drawn into the armed conflict that Beijing threatens would follow any opposition move to formalise Taiwan's de facto independence. It sees Ma's policies as strongly reducing that possibility. The DPP, however, believes the president's China-friendly push sets the stage for an eventual Chinese takeover of the island - a charge Ma vehemently denies. The DPP says Ma's trade deal - formally known as the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) - will flood the island with cheap Chinese products, prompting massive job losses. Party spokesman Tsai Chi-chang claimed that studies have shown Taiwan's unemployment rate will shoot up after the signing of the ECFA. As recently as five months ago, most of the Taiwanese public accepted Ma's argument that closer economic ties with China would aid Taiwanese prosperity - even allowing for the global economic downturn. But Ma's mishandling of the response to a devastating typhoon in August began to dent his popularity, as did a more recent miscue involving secret negotiations on the removal of a ban on some US beef imports. Earlier this month Ma's Nationalists bested the DPP by only two percentage points in local elections - a far cry from the 17 point margin that Ma enjoyed over his DPP rival in the March 2008 presidential poll.
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