Taiwan after 1997

Article Abstract:

Taiwan faces a watershed, following Hong Kong's return to China, as China increases pressure to further marginalize it. The Hong Kong transfer is also being used to launch a global public relations campaign, although Hong Kong is no model for Taiwan, which has been autonomous for 50 years, with its own political culture. China will benefit from a free and democratic Taiwan, and Taiwan can make itself less threatening by insisting on its own autonomy and developing business and academic links with Hong Kong and China.

Autonomy, Autonomy (Political science)

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Taiwan, front and centre

Article Abstract:

Suggestions at home and abroad that Taiwan should accept second-class status internationally and abandon its quest for recognition make three fatal assumptions. These are that Taiwan is legitimately part of China, ignoring the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki; that Taiwan's best strategy for security purposes is to appease China, though this simply isolates Taiwan; and that China can be appeased, despite its evident eagerness to find any excuse for saying it has been provoked, and its routine military aggression.

Political aspects

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Louder than words: while Li Peng lectured parliament on the virtues of domestic stability, Beijing was planning productions abroad: a new round of missile tests off Taiwan

Article Abstract:

Chinese Premier Li Peng's annual address to the National People's Congress emphasized domestic stability even as the Xinhua news agency announced missile tests perilously close to Taiwan. The exercises, from Mar 8 to 15, will see ground-to-ground missiles landing only 32 to 64 km from Keelung harbor. Peng's 43-page speech underlined his resolve to invade Taiwan if necessary, and thundered against the US and other foreigners scheming against reunification. Strong central domestic control was also a feature.

Analysis, Testing, Nuclear weapons, Nuclear testing

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