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Here are some international articles on the subject to put things in perspective:
MOFA: Taiwan's interests not harmed
Post-summit, the score is even
Texas summit yields little for Jiang
No surprises from summit
Taiwan: interests not dented in Bush-Jiang talks
All the above were taken via ChiCom Watch
Basically, my impression is that nothing has changed, particularly given Pres. Bush's statement re: the TRA. Further, none of the press agencies (including the socialist leaning ones besides Reuters) have played up the comment to be a victory for the PRC. There are still a few days for this to play out but I think the "no surprises from summit" title sums the whole thing up fairly well. Thus far everyone is in consensus that the summit was, as expected, a wash.

FWIW, here's an neat editorial I found regarding Taiwan continuing with a peaceful attitude:
Missile threat to Taiwan

Philman & maui (heads-up) - ignore 'formosaplastics' (signed up 2002-10-27) s/he's just a PRC agitprop that has gone by several other monikers such as AIG and latourette. They've been banned/booted from FR several times but are, evidently, too dumb to learn. As a result, freepers familiar with this agitprop have just started to ignore his/her posts (trust me - it really is like talking to a mind-numbed robot).

Hahaha, the thing though is that everything keeps going my way. Unlike China, Third World republics keep needing one IMF bailout after another, electing anti-capitalist leaders (Brazil), losing foreign investment dollars, etc. The only topic even the pro-independence Taipei Times can talk about today is how crappy Taiwan's economy has become. If even that rag can start paying attention to Taiwan's dire economic situation, maybe there is still hope for you, maui_hawaii, and others too. In addition, this year China will become the #1 destination of foreign direct invesment ahead of even the U.S. and GE's CEO recently overtly said the he much favored investing in China than in India or most other Third World republics (democratic economic basketcases).