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By a case study of the major national paper The Australian, this article analyses the Australian mainstream print media reporting on the tension between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits. The article argues that in the international context of human rights and democracy discourse and "humanitarian intervention" after the end of the Cold War, there has been a shift of emphasis in international politics from the old discourse of realism of national sovereignty to a new discourse of moral sovereignty of human rights and democracy. The findings of the research demonstrate that within this context of discourse shift, the Australian media is caught between the two discourses. On the one hand the media defends Taiwan's strife for Taiwanese identity and even independence because of Australia's political and cultural values of human rights and democracy. On the other hand the Australian media is sensitive to Australia's geopolitical position in Asia. Therefore, the media is sympathetic with Taiwan in terms of moral sovereignty. However, the media, by reflecting the Australian government's position, does not go all the way to denounce China's claim of national sovereignty over Taiwan.

Se referant a la poesie, a la peinture et a la langue chinoises, l'A. montre que toute l'importance du soi reside dans son appartenance a un ordre eleve qui ne laisse pas de place a une entite separee. Mais depuis l'emergence d'un neoantitraditionnalisme intellectuel dans les annees 1980, l'absence d'un individualisme ethique se fait ressentir dans ses consequences politiques, c'est-a-dire dans la stagnation du processus democratique en Chine

May (1977, 1985) argues that the rule of Quantifier Raising (QR), which is an instance of Move 8 is operative at the level of Logic Form (LF) in English. Based on the assumption that QR is operative at the level of S‐Structure (SS) in Chinese and that the lexical item dōu is relevant to the application of QR at SS in Chinese (Gao 1989, 1990), this paper, by demonstrating a set of properties of dōu, aims to argue that dōu is a wide scope universal quantifier. The paper intends to demonstrate that a quantifier which co‐occurs with dōu is unambiguous and always has wide scope; that a wh‐question word becomes a universal quantifier if it co‐occurs with dou and again it always has wide scope; that dōu forces an NP or a QP in the object position to move preverbally and thus forces it to have wide scope interpretation; and that even an existential quantifier or an ordinary noun or noun phrase will have universal presupposition if it appears with dōu. The significance of the argument that dōu is a wide s...