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Article: Hoover Institution Press: The Struggle across the Taiwan Strait; New Book Details Historical Divide Between Mainland China and Taiwan.
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- July 26, 2006
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STANFORD, Calif. -- In The Struggle across the Taiwan Strait (Hoover Institution Press, 2006), Hoover fellows Ramon Myers and Jialin Zhang have written a short, concise history that informs readers as to how China divided, in 1949, into two regimes that have struggled ever since to achieve increasingly incompatible political goals.
The authors describe how, for more than a half century, the competing authorities had struggled to unify China. Then, on March 18, 2000, a political earthquake shook Taiwan when Taiwan's people elected a new political regime that changed the rules of the game. This newly elected regime championed a new belief system, "Taiwan ...