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Article: Taiwan: What China Really Wants.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- October 11, 1999
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Mr. Munro is co-author of The Coming Conflict with China and director of Asian studies at the Center for Security Studies in Washington. He worked for many years as a journalist in Asia.
The world in general, and the United States in particular, badly misunderstands China's Taiwan policy. We have an urgent need to see it for what it is.
Judged solely by official pronouncements from Beijing, that policy isn't a policy at all, but Chinese holy writ-an emotional, nationalistic position that is not open to compromise. "It remains the sacred mission and lofty goal of the entire Chinese people to achieve reunification of the motherland," declared President ...