Taiwan opens door for links to China: China's grudging approval yesterday...

The Christian Science Monitor;  December 29, 2000 ;     700+ words ......more than 50 years ago. But China actually preceded Taiwan in opening up unilateral direct...individuals requesting to travel to China. Taiwan has limited the number of...look unpopular, not only in China, but in Taiwan as well. China had made efforts...

Dancing with the enemy.(Taiwan's relations with China)

The Economist (US);  January 15, 2005 ;     700+ words ......all the hostility between Taiwan and mainland China, their respective economies...abolished only last September. China knows that Taiwan is slipping ever further away...runs to 2008, tension between China and Taiwan could escalate, even to the...

Don't even think about it.... (China's threats to take over...

The Economist (US);  February 3, 1996 ;     700+ words ......who point out that years ago China and Taiwan gleefully traded shells (though...business. An alienable part of China But Taiwan is not so easily shrugged off...population is less than a 50th of China's, Taiwan is no midget, to be overlooked...

The truth about Taiwan.(Taiwan's relations with China)(Brief Article)

The Economist (US);  July 24, 1999 ;     700+ words ...If China wants reunion with Taiwan, it should look more worth reuniting...boundless ocean of the people's war. China insists that Taiwan is an inalienable part of Chinese...argument that there is only one China and Taiwan is part of China. Is it not undiplomatic...

Impatient China.(China talks tough on Taiwan)(Brief Article)

The Economist (US);  February 26, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Threatening force against Taiwan damages China's interests too THE good news...may be just as unhelpful--to Taiwan, to China's relations with America and...By shooting its mouth off at Taiwan, China shoots itself in the foot. Taiwan...

China Offers Taiwan Talks Without Preconditions, but Taipei Is Skeptical

The Washington Post;  January 21, 1998 ;     700+ words ......context of the reunification of China and Taiwan -- to which Chinese Nationalist...Taiwan} Strait," Shen said. "Both China and Taiwan must recognize that there is...for Advanced Policy Studies in Taiwan. "China sees more problems in the future...

CHINA WARNED ABOUT PRESSURE ON TAIWAN CLINTON UNDERSCORES U.S. ONE-NATION...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  July 21, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Amid escalating rhetoric between China and Taiwan, President Clinton said yesterday...decades of U.S. policy toward China and Taiwan, across the Taiwan Strait from...the peaceful dialogue'' between China and Taiwan. He described the conversation...

Defending Taiwan. (country's possible independence from China)

The Economist (US);  November 12, 1994 ;     700+ words ......existed since 1978, when China stopped shelling Taiwanese territory. In the years of...last week as saying that China would retake Taiwan if support for independence...calls itself The Republic of China on Taiwan , but it has dropped its...

China Targets Missile Tests On Sites Near Taiwan's Ports

The Washington Post;  March 6, 1996 ;     700+ words ......clear of the dispute with Taiwan, regarded by China as a renegade province. In...declared that "the question of Taiwan is China's internal affair and China...peaceful reunification with Taiwan, but he reiterated China's position that "we shall...

CHINA, TAIWAN BOUND BY CASH, TORN BY POLITICS\.

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  March 19, 2000 ;     631 words ......talk of war or peace between China and Taiwan may obscure a crucial reality...and money. Relations between China and Taiwan have been tense since they separated...advocates a formal split with China, the Taiwanese can be seen as moving toward...

California Executives Watch, Wait as China and Taiwan Trade Political...

San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  December 12, 2003 ;     700+ words ......disruption in the Silicon Valley-Taiwan-China triangle of operations would cripple...designed in Taiwan and manufactured in China. Taiwan produces about a third of the world...taking a risk by investing in the China-Taiwan region. I said, 'Well, do you own...

China Decries New U.S. Tie With Taiwan

The Washington Post;  September 11, 1994 ;     463 words ......Communists in 1949. Asserting that Taiwan is a province of China, Beijing has opposed any...create `two Chinas' or `one China, one Taiwan.' " Taiwan has been pressing...views as tacit recognition of Taiwan's statehood. China is especially irked about...

Just playing? Taiwan.(possibility of an attack from China)(Asia)

The Economist (US);  March 23, 1996 ;     700+ words ...WHAT if China were actually to attack Taiwan? Conventional wisdom in...continue to try to raise Taiwan's profile in ways China finds threatening. China...750,000 troops just to Taiwan's regular army. Yet China has only enough landing...

Why Taiwan? Geostrategic Rationales for China's Territorial Integrity

The China Journal;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Why Taiwan? Geostrategic Rationales for China's Territorial Integrity, by...over the years did not consider Taiwan a part of China until around 1942. Wachman's...Qing differentiated between China and Taiwan. So, during the Qing, Taiwan...

CHINA AND TAIWAN - TWO COUNTRIES, ONE ELVIS.(Editorial)(Column)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  September 1, 1999 ;     679 words ......is Beijing's awareness that Taiwan and China are now so intertwined that...a few facts: In 1995-96 when China threatened Taiwan, the Taiwan stock market crashed...China is now $46 billion. ``Taiwan is China's biggest capital supplier today...