Il faut bien le faire.

Association pour le bien être des habitants de Beau Vallon

BANGKOK Last week, a Taiwanese court sentenced Chen Shui bien, Taiwan s president from 2000 until 2008, to life imprisonment for corruption.

Regarding the South China Sea the Bien Dong Sea the Thirty eighth ASEAN Ministerial Meeting, held in Vientiane last July, continued to reaffirm the importance of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea the Bien Dong Sea as an important step towards a regional code of conduct in the South China Sea.

Taiwan s Public Prosecutor has indicted the wife of President Chen Shui bien for embezzling public funds. Chen, as a sitting president, cannot be indicted even though the prosecutor says that he has evidence to prove his guilt.

Some call this isolationism, but it might better be called prudence or pragmatism. After all, President Dwight D. Eisenhower refused in 1954 to send US troops to save the French at Dien Bien Phu because he feared that they would be swallowed up by the divisions in Vietnam.

For example, following Vietnam s partition in the wake of France s defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnam s last non Communist president, was able to turn to the US military for support. However, staggering levels of corruption under Diem and his US backed successors, and the replacement of the military s most competent commanders with Diem s cronies, ultimately led to the rout of the South Vietnamese Army.