There have been plenty of reverberations on the political front in Taiwan recently: former provincial governor James Soong threw his hat into the ring for next year's presidential election; a change of government in Papua New Guinea brought a swift end to Taiwan's newest diplomatic partnership; and most startling of all, President Lee identified the need for parity between the two sides as the crux of the problem in cross-Strait relations.
最近政壇地震頻頻，前省長宋楚瑜宣佈參選，為明年總統之戰投下了不可知的變數；才與巴布亞紐幾亞建交，旋即卻因巴國政權易手而叫停；最令人心驚地，則是李總統誠實面對台海情勢的一句話，點出了兩岸問題的癥結，在於雙方關係需要對等。