Since Mr. Ma was elected in March, relations across the Taiwan Strait have been improving.
Its aim is to reduce tensions across the Taiwan Strait, a flashpoint for decades since 1949.
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"We want to maintain peace and also stability across the Taiwan Strait, " Soong says.
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Initially, its offer of help got a cool response from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
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The new exercises will consist of ground, naval and air maneuvers in the Taiwan Strait.
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Many companies on both sides of the Taiwan Strait have prepared for years for the three links.
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"This arms deal is a key factor in bringing security and stability across the Taiwan Strait, " he added.
If the two Koreas share the world's scariest land border, the Taiwan Strait is its scariest sea passage.
It is anyone's guess whether this propaganda show, worthy of China's Communists across the Taiwan Strait, instilled confidence.
Those pledges, said a spokesman, were fundamental to stability in the Taiwan Strait.
The Matsu islets are tucked away in a corner of the Taiwan Strait, their rocky shores eroded into outlandish formations by the sea.
China will not jeopardize the success of the Beijing Olympics by engaging in a clash of arms across the Taiwan Strait.
Of course, a military accident in the Taiwan Strait remains a possibility -- one that would throw all calculations out the window.
As trade and business pick up, the politics should get less emotive and increase the chances for peace across the Taiwan Strait.
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Land-based aircraft and missiles could be deployed easily across the Taiwan Strait.
Even if she does target Beijing in her speeches and press conferences, Lu can't really make matters worse across the Taiwan Strait.
Some 700 mainland-Chinese tourists took the opportunity to visit Taiwan at the start of regular weekend charter flights across the Taiwan Strait .
That will leave the question: can economic integration render less dangerous the political gulf that appears to be widening across the Taiwan Strait?
In addition, ceremonies were being held at seaports on both coasts as the first commercial vessels prepared to set out across the Taiwan Strait.
In recent years, rapid improvements in China's fighter fleet have eroded the island's long-held belief that it could dominate the skies over the Taiwan Strait.
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The departure of Mr Lee marks the end of a period of democratic reform in the face of mounting hostility from across the Taiwan Strait.
Our Seventh Fleet should frequently move through the Taiwan Strait.
On the eve of Mr Chen's speech, President Jacques Chirac of France said during a visit to Beijing that tensions in the Taiwan strait were worsening.
Despite the occasional outburst of bellicose language from Beijing, and ritual military manoeuvres in the Taiwan Strait, China is concentrating on wooing the island's business people.
In the German and Korean cases, however, discrepancies in size, population and geopolitical clout were far smaller than they are between the rival regimes across the Taiwan Strait.
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