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Uses discourse analysis to examine the role of newspaper reports & people's responses following Taiwan's third & closely contested presidential election of 20 Mar 2004. The texts of the five major dailies were searched for evidence of possible hate speech toward "others" in the after-election analysis. It was concluded that the newspapers did not manipulate the stratagem of hate speech, yet the deep distrust toward "others" they communicated did not live up to their role in the public sphere. The post-election discussion should have represented both sides of the conflict & worked to engender reconciliation. L. A. Hoffman

In this article I explore the connection between historically based emotional issues and economic interests in China-Japan relations by analyzing the linkage between China's renunciation of war reparations and Japan's official development assistance (ODA) to China. I argue that there is no legal linkage between the two, and previous scholarship about the linkage between the ODA and reparations involves emotional arguments or entanglements surrounding "assistance" and "history." I conclude that, in explaining China-Japan relations, there exists a "dual gratitude theory," related to history and assistance, as well as a "dual obligation and enmity theory." In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the chain reaction of mutual recrimination between the two countries became increasingly unmanageable, apparently continuing to the present day. (Asian Perspect/GIGA)