http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-11/20/content_283342.htm<snippo>
Taiwan "president'' Chen Shui-bian cannot wait for the island's independence.
As a desperate step towards achieving that goal, Chen recently unveiled a timetable for a new constitution through referendum, which states the island's new constitution will be completed on December 10, 2006, and come into force on May 20, 2008, when the island's new leader is inaugurated.
The schedule for the new constitution, which is expected to provide Chen a "legal'' basis for independence, is essentially the schedule for Chen to separate Taiwan from China.
The move was not only Chen's thinly-disguised ploy to win re-election in the coming "presidential'' competition, but also the latest development in his conspiracy for independence