international relations - Taiwan elections at Shanghai FCC

The upcoming presidential elections in Taiwan will be the focus of meeting of the Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club on March 2 in Sasha's at 7:30 PM. Now the Taiwanese business community got involved in the election, opposing sitting pro-indepence DPP-president Chen Shuibian, the campaign does has an influence on Shanghai too.
"The upcoming presidential elections are a milestone for the democratic transformation of Taiwan," says the invitation. "But it is far more than this. Since it can not be excluded that cross-strait relations will deteriorate after the elections and the referendum, the outcome of both may also have larger international repercussions. The lecture by the Financial Times Taipei Correspondent, Kathrin Hille, will give a critical analysis of the present ¡V domestic, cross-straits, and international ¡V situation mainly from a Taiwan perspective."
Non-members 100 Rmb, RSVP before 26/2 to Kerstin Lohse.