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Article: Will China invade Taiwan?
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 9, 1996
- Author:
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It sounds like a scenario from an over-excitable Hollywood
screenwriter pining for old, Cold War-style scenes of apocalypse
with Communist soldiers rushing from landing craft to invade a tiny
capitalist island. Except that this is not Hollywood. The drama is
real. The chances of an armed conflict between the People's
Republic of China and the "Republic of China" - in other words, the
island of Taiwan - are greater than at any time for decades. That,
in turn, would be much more than just a regional fracas. If such a
conflict breaks out, then the United Stateswould find it hard to
stand by and watch Taiwan attacked.
Taiwan has existed in a diplomatic limbo - not quite recognised,
not quite ...