Relations Between China and Taiwan
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Relation between china and Taiwan Introduction The current conflict between china and Taiwan originally began in 1949 when Chiang Kai-shek (President of Republic of China) and his followers fled to Taiwan after their defeat by the Chinese communist party (led by Moa Tse-Tung) in the Chinese civil war, which erupted immediately after the Second World War. In 1950, the Chinese communist party established the people’s republic of china (PRC) and invaded Taiwan, to unify all of china under their rule. Their plan failed, when the United States sent naval forces to defend Taiwan. Since then, both countries have existed in neither a state of complete independence nor integration of neither war nor peace. The United States has committed to defend Taiwan if attacked by china in the Taiwan relations act of 1979, in which the US president carter officially began diplomatic relations with the people’s republic of china and gave token recognition to their “one china policy” and its agenda of reunification. Instead of maintaining a significant deployable military force in the region, the United States has sold billions of dollars worth of arms to Taiwan, from small arms, to ships, fighter aircraft, and patriot missiles. Despite the arms sales to Taiwan and vows to defend it if attacked, the United States also has significant economic ties to both china and Taiwan. Since, then it has been trying to maintain the “status quo” of the current situation. Given these sets of circumstances, china, Taiwan and United States have much to gain and even more to lose if an armed conflict erupts in the Taiwan Strait. All three countries have political, economic, and national security issues involved and united states and china are both in competition economic... ... middle of paper ... ...elopments concerning the mutual establishment of the permanent offices of ARATS and SEF are in the spotlight. Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou has repeatedly made positive remarks about this. As business and tourism ties between China and Taiwan get closer and more active, the need for the mutual establishment of the permanent offices of ARATS and SEF, which handles consulate-general-like operations, is rising. Details still remain unclear, including what operations and authority these office would have, what levels of officials would head them or what extent of diplomatic privileges would be accorded to the staff of the offices. Given that Taiwan already has the economic and cultural offices in China’s special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao, some researchers expect the permanent offices of ARATS and SEF to be established in the form similar to them.
In this essay, the author
- Opines that china is the country in this conflict that has the most influence over how it will eventually unfold, especially, whether or not it turns into a military conflict.
- Explains that relations between china and taiwan across taiwan straits made rapid headway, centering on economic fields such as trade and tourism, since the ma ying-jeou administration in may 2008.
- Explains that china and taiwan's economic and trade relations are likely to develop centering on economic fields such as trade and tourism.
- Opines that relations between china and taiwan will develop in a manner that limits them to economic and cultural exchanges going forward.
- Explains that the current conflict between china and taiwan began in 1949 when chiang kai-shek and his followers fled to taiwan after their defeat by the chinese communist party.
- Explains that taiwan's domestic politics became relevant to cross-strait relations when the democratization of taiwan during the 1990s complicated the essence of the conflict.
- Explains taiwan's basic policy toward negotiations with china is "the economy first and politics later," and china approves of this approach. relations between china and taiwan concern the important issues of legitimacy and lawfulness of the system of government.
- Opines that taiwan needs to present the fruits of their deeper relations to the public. in january 2013, taiwan president ma unveiled a policy to increase the number of chinese universities for which taiwan recognizes academic credentials.
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- Explains that japan's legal justification for the annexation of the senkaku islands is not as straightforward as the japanese government frames it.
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- Opines that china's adiz represents one of the flashpoints between competing states and ignoring reality risks a dangerous diplomatic miscalculation.
- Describes encyclopeadia britannica's "air law".
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- Explains that the first decade of american-chinese relations started in 1971 with 'ping-pong diplomacy', when mao zedong invited american table tennis team to visit china.
- Analyzes how the events of tiananmen square had a negative impact on the relations between the us and china.
- Explains that the president of the united states formulates american foreign policy and plays an important role in the conflict situations. the case of tiananmen massacre became a topic for debate in both domestic and international politics.
- Analyzes how the issue of human rights in china and the tiananmen incident negatively influenced the diplomatic relations between america and china.
- Explains that the relations between the united states of america and china have always been unstable. the two countries developed mutual relations from the end of world war ii until the 1970s.
- Cites bosworth, barry, "conflicts in the u.s.-china economic relationship: opposite sides of the same coin?", the brookings institution.
- Cites dong, wang, the asia-pacific journal, vol. 11, issue 24, no. 4, june 17, 2013.
- Cites lawrence, susan v., "u.s.-china relations: an overview of policy issues", accessed october 19, 2013.
- Explains that china through a lens is a lens of china-us relations, accessed october 19, 2013.
- Opines that china's foreign relations after tiananmen: challenges for the u.s.
- Explains turner, oliver, "sino-us relations then and now: discourse, images, policy", political perspectives 2011, vol.
- Cites yuan, jing-dong, "sino-us military relations since tiananmen: restoration, progress, and pitfalls".
- Cites yan, xuetong, "the instability of china–us relations", the chinese journal of international politics 3, no. 3 (2010): 263-292.
- Explains that the bilateral relations between the united states of america and china have changed since the 1970s with the 'ping-pong' diplomacy.
- Explains that the 1980s were the decade of different types of reforms and growth in the american-chinese transfer of goods, values, ideas and technology.
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- Analyzes how the history of united states-china relations tells a story of distrust, exploitation, and naivety, but also one of the struggle to bypass those differences.
- Explains that america began its history with china "from their initial contact in the 1780s" during the twilight years of china's imperial era.
- Analyzes how the growth of international narcotics trade broke down china's isolation as more chinese became addicts of the opium imported by british merchants.
- Analyzes how the expansion of the alien religion sparked attacks on missionaries and converts alike, driving the wedge between the chinese and the west.
- Explains that many americans found it difficult to accept the new wave of chinese immigrants to america. the senate passed the chinese exclusion act in 1882.
- Explains how the united states sought to ensure its role as a major player in the asian market without having to compete militarily for domination of china.
- Explains that the chinese were too weak to reverse the tide of foreign domination within their nation. revolutionaries such as sun yat-sen and yuan shihk'ai overthrow the qing regime.
- Explains that the kmt established a "unified front" against japanese aggression and sent chang kai-shek to the soviet union to protect the nation from japan.
- Analyzes how the ccp's wartime policy of fighting japanese forces and self-portrayal as a pan-chinese unifier led to tense relations between the two nations.
- Analyzes how nixon and kissinger campaigned for a "peace with honor" after the vietnam war and tet offensive. china saw the opportunity to improve sino-american relations.
- Explains that nixon's resignation in 1974 worried chinese officials, who questioned whether his opening to china had provoked it. politics in the u.s. would slow the process of normalizing relations with china.
- Analyzes how the economic interests of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries have strengthened the need to maintain a working relationship with the other, yet tension because of geopolitical ambitions tends to put both nations at odds with one another.
- Analyzes how sino-american relations have been tedious, but there are moments of cooperation between the two powers. america's outlook of china has been naive, and the struggles of modernization and american attempts to control the region have caused drastically varied reactions.
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how the article 'u.s., china and thucydides' addressed the security dilemma between the rising chinese and the us through the historical story. the chapter 15 in us foreign policy indicated the situation of changing east asia and rising china.
- Analyzes how robert's article suggests that the u.s. and china should cooperate in the future even though there would be many intensions and frictions.
- Concludes that china's peaceful rise has consoled its neighbors and the united states that it remains a status quo power.
- Opines that china and the united states should cooperate not only in the future, but also seize the opportunity to cooperate from now on.
- Opines that the u.s. and china are vital players in the world, especially when coping with the east asia regional security issues.
- Explains that the future trend of the sino-us relationship is to cooperate through competition, which is the "competitive coexistence".
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- Analyzes how hibben's political views and opinions led to seven arduous years of working with the united states senate on the issue of humanitarian relief to countries such as russia.
- Opines that feingold, henry, and gareau, frederick, "crisis and response: american jewish leadership during the roosevelt years," modern judaism.
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- Explains that the united states and china's trade relationship dates back to 1971, when they re-opened doors to each other. though the relationship has been un-easy due to their recurring trade wars, there have been some significant milestones of mutually beneficial relationship.
- Explains that the trading volume from 1971 has significantly been on the rise both in terms of exports and imports, up to levels of us dollars 532.2 billion in 2012.
- Explains that the trade gap between the two giants has cost the united states a whooping us dollars 37 billion in wages.
- Explains that the most affected industries are manufacturing and non-trade related industries. these deficits have been seen to harm the working american families.
- Analyzes how trade relations have been affected by the strained quarrels over china's alleged manipulation of its currency and usage of industry-subsidies which are deemed illegal.
- Explains that china has experienced deficits of up to us dollars 10 billion and costing over 1 million jobs to its natives, who are the minority workers.
- Opines that a brief history of the trading between the two nations can help policy makers come up with viable adjustments and developments which would be stipulated into policies to curb the growing deficit thus in return creating more jobs and reviving the dwindling sectors.
- Explains the economic trade history of the two nations. the first decade between 1970 and 1980 saw the lifting of certain barns and barriers of trade, and conferred the contigent most favoured nation status on the chinese nation.
- Explains that the second decade, between 1980 and 1990, saw america and china transfer of goods, ideas, values, technology, and personnel. the trade between these two nations had almost tripled to over us dollars 7 billion by the close of 1989.
- Explains that the tiananmen crisis caused an uneasy relationship between the two giant nations. china joined the world trade organization (wto) in 2001.
- Explains that the fourth decade between 2001 and 2012 has seen a more cooperation between the u.s. and china beyond that of wto.
- Concludes that china claims to have an economy that is less than half in size than that of america's economy. their trade patterns within their bilateral economic conformities within the last forty years suggests china has no interest in remaking or un-making the entire global economic system.
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- Opines that the rise of china as a great power will be one of the greatest potential challenges facing the united states in the 21st century.
- Argues that china's growing share of global power presents a serious challenge to the security of the united states. the recent financial crisis has seen china become more assertive and vocal on the world stage.
- Opines that china may soon begin to challenge the united states militarily, as the recent naval incident with the us and deployments to fight piracy prove.
- Argues that the united states and china are not destined to conflict. china's rise, though seemingly inexorable, is not guaranteed.
- Argues that the truism that power transitions cause conflict may no longer be the case. the deterrent effects of nuclear weapons, the expense of modern conventional conflict, and changing norms among policymakers make great power conflict less likely.
- Opines that american and chinese policymakers have shown remarkable aplomb in dealing with periodic crises in the relationship.
- Argues that the united states should encourage its east asian allies to bolster their defense capabilities so they are less reliant on american security guarantees.
- Analyzes fettweis, christopher j, haas, mark l, ikenberry, g. john, and kagan, robert.
- Cites pape, robert a., seonjou, kang, and tessman, brock f.
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that at the end of world war ii, fifty-one nations gathered to officially form the united nations, an organization that promoted peace and security for all of its members.
- Explains the truman doctrine, which stated that the united states would aid countries fighting communist takeover. the soviet union's development of an atomic bomb pushed tensions past the breaking point.
- Explains that the korean war was "sandwiched" between world war ii and the vietnam war and was a widespread and influential war for all countries involved, both directly and indirectly.
- Explains that korea was kept as a colony by its oppressive ruler, japan, who annexed korea in 1910 with the japan-korea annexation treaty.
- Explains that the soviet union declared war on japan within 90 days of germany’s defeat on august 9, 1945, and by august 10, 1945 they had begun their occupation of northern korea.
- Explains that the ussr and us had major influences on the split nation, each enforcing its ideals of government and ruling into its portion of korea.
- Explains that korea had never solidified a communist party. the korean communist party was unopposed to the trusteeship concept.
- Explains that the korean democratic party made its first appearance in 1945, much later than its communist counterpart. with the leadership of cho man-shik, the party gained popularity with the people in the northern portion of korea.
- Describes how the workers party of korea staged rallies to denigrate and blockade general elections in 1948. after the elections were allowed to proceed, south korea gained its first president, syngman rhee
- Explains that kim requested assistance from stalin, the dictator of the soviet union at the time, in march of 1949. stalin rejected kim's plea for aid, but when mao zedong banished chiang kai-shek and his nationalist party from china in 1949, stalin reconsidered his scheme.
- Explains that the two koreas established their own governmental systems by 1948, but neither would acknowledge to the other that it was an independent nation.
- Narrates how north korea pushed across the 38th parallel, overpowering the south korean opposition. the united states requested that the united nations quickly pass a demand for north koreans to remove their troops from south korea.
- Explains that harry s. truman felt it was the united states’ responsibility to help korea to contain communism. in 1950, the soviet union's representative, jacob a. malik, was displeased with the un’s refusal to remove the nationalist party of china from the security council.
- Explains that the soviet union's boycott was one of the most significant events in the korea war era.
- States that the united states was the first to react to the north korean push in 1950 and deployed its first militaristic aid a day after the fall of seoul.
- Explains that the korean war was overshadowed by world war ii or the vietnam war.
- Explains the political status of the soviet union after the korean war was catastrophic. the political goal of unifying korea under kim il-sung was a failure, leading to the sino-soviet split.
- Analyzes how the people's republic of china achieved its original goal of preventing north korea from falling under democratic rule by entering the korean war.
- Explains that the korean war allowed for the survivability and economic stability of the republic of china.
- Analyzes how the korean war left korea divided by the demilitarized zone, establishing a totalitarian government in the north and an authoritarily-ruled south korea.
- Analyzes how the korean war proved that democracy and communism could and would not get along, adding fuel to the imminent cold war.
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