Hello:
 
Please see the essay "Taiwan: Someone Has Been Hiding a Dark Secret."  This is approx. 1200 words, and is offered exclusively to the Japan Times. 
Please forward this essay to the Op-Ed Department.

We have read a number of articles in the Japan Times, and note that some of them are rather lengthy. 
 
The authors are introduced as follows --
Richard W. Hartzell
 B.S. Economics, Wharton School, Univ. of Penn. 

Dr. Roger C. S. Lin
 Ph.D. in International Law, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan
 

contact email -- rgroup.tw@gmail.com


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An abstract of this essay would be as follows --
United States policy toward the Republic of China, after its founding in 1912, has been handled as a matter of foreign affairs, under the authority of the Executive Branch.  Unfortunately, there was no thorough review of the appropriateness of this policy in the years after WWII, when the Republic of China had already "moved house" and taken up new residence in the former Japanese colony of Taiwan.  In the present era, the debate over Taiwan's ownership, its role in the international community, and the rights of the Taiwanese people to determine their own future has continued unabated.  However, recent research into the military and legal history of WWII in the Pacific strongly suggests that Taiwan actually has a much closer legal relationship to the United States than any members of the Taiwan public, the US Congress, or Chinese/Taiwanese communities around the world have previously realized.  
 
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Please advise us if you have any difficulty in downloading the attached Microsoft Word file. 
 
 
Sincerely,
 
Richard W. Hartzell
Dr. Roger C. S. Lin
 
written in Taipei, Taiwan
May 18, 2006
 
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