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Although the political relation between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan has been stagnating in recent years, the bilateral trade and exchange between the two sides are booming rather swiftly. Beijing has changed its policy from using force against Taiwan even without independence in the year 2000 to only using force against independence in 2005. It indicates the maintenance of the status quo, the tolerance of the ROC legal structure, and peaceful coexistence only if Taiwan did not cross the Rubicon. While the opposition tries to reconcile with Beijing, the government keeps on its policy of confrontation. But still, Beijing has been trying hard to collaborate with the USA on the Taiwan issue, while offering increasing amount of friendly measures toward the Taiwanese people. Due to tremendous domestic and international pressure to the government in Taipei, its rapprochement to the Mainland is more and more likely to take place in the near future.
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‘White book of the CP China on one China principle and the Taiwan question’ (Chin.), United Daily, 2000.2.22, p. 14. and 39. ‘Beijing’s gesture toward DPP just a diplomatic trick. Recognizing “one China” principle still precondition for resuming’, Taiwan News, 2002.2.5, p. 9; ‘China’s premier insists on dialogue “one China”’, Taiwan News, 2002.3.6, p. 1.
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Three Links (San Tong) means trade, post, and traffic. Since the problem in the first two parts are almost solved only the transport links still remains a problem, eNews China Times, 2002.7.1 and 2002.7.4.
Tensions ease after Taiwan Election, http://www-cgi.cnn.com/WORLD/9603/taiwan_elex/day_after/; http://www.ly.gov.tw/ly/index.jsp.
Taiwan’s Presidential Election, http://taiwansecurity.org/TSR-President.htm.
‘Taiwan (In) dependence’, http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/magazine/dateline/0,8782, 185609,00.html.
‘Xingjian, China’s Restive Northwest’, http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/china-98/sj_xnj2.htm; http://www.chengmingmag.com/new_page_199.htm; http://www.tibet.com/
‘White book of the CP China on one China principle and the Taiwan question’ (Chin.), United Daily, 2000.2.22.
The role of the KMT military in the war against Japan is clearly displayed in the Museum of Anti-Japanese War in Beijing. In 2005 it was also the first time for Beijing to celebrate openly the 60th anniversary of recovery of Taiwan from Japanese occupation in 1945.
Preamble of the PRC Constitution.
The 1992 Consensus is another form of the “one-China” principle which was created by the two sides in their negotiations in Hong Kong that year. The content of it is the so-called “yi zhong ge biao
”. PFP and NP are two split parties of the KMT.For instance changing the passages in primary school textbooks etc. see IHT, 2002.3.8, p. 1.
Three fourths of the parliamentarians plus 8.4 million yes-votes through referendum out of 17 million voters. http://info.gio.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=13370 CtNode=904 mp=1.
Paragraph 8 of the Anti Secession Law.
President Chen abolished the Guidelines of Reunification“ and the Council of Reunification“ in February 2006 which was deemed by Beijing and Washington as a step forwards to Taiwanese independence. http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/trad/hi/newsid_4710000/newsid_4712200/4712278.stm.
High ranking officials such as President and Vice President of Taiwan are barred from visiting the US due to the US one-China“ principle.
‘Letter from Taiwan: Go to the Mainland for advanced studies’ (Chin.), http://news.bbc.co. uk/hi/chinese/china_news/newsid_2173000/21734322.stm.
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We can set the Cornell visit of the former President Lee Teng-hui in summer 1995 as the start of the current stagnation of the cross-Strait relations because it triggered the PLA’s military manoeuvre in the Taiwan Strait. Since then, except for a short period of rapprochement in autumn 1998, the bilateral relations have never been improved. See: Tang 2002; http://www.future-china.org.tw/csipf/press/quarterly/pq2000-1/pq2000-1_4.htm; http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/taiwan_strait.htm; http://www.cdiss.org/China_Essay.htm.
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Tang, S. New trends in the cross-Strait relations between China and Taiwan. AEJ 4, 555–562 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-006-0084-0
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