The Taiwan Strait crisis: Its crux and solutions

Asian Survey

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1055-1066

  Qimao, Chen ^a,b  

^a Institute for International Studies   (China)

^b Shanghai Soc for Intl Relations ^*

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EID: 0004803626     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2645635     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. The 1958 crisis broke out on August 23 and ended in October on Kinmen, a small island close to China's Fujian Province but occupied by the Taiwan authorities. The crisis started with heavy artillery bombardment over the island by the People's Liberation Army with the intention of seizing it from Taiwan. The United States immediately dispatched six aircraft carrier battle groups to the area and escorted Taiwanese ships to provide food and ammunition supplies to the Taiwan troops on the island. Later, the Chinese leadership dropped their plan to seize the island and stopped the bombardment.
2. The Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, vol. 3 (Beijing: People's Publisher, 1993), pp. 30-31.
3. See White Paper, "The Taiwan Question and Reunification of China," August 1993, China Daily, September 1, 1993, pp. 4-5.
4. Jiang's quotes here are from his speech, "Continue to Promote the Reunification of the Motherland," as carried in China Daily, February 2, 1995, pp. 1-2.
5. United Daily [Lianhe ribao], November 22, 1993, pp. 1-2; China Times, [Zhongguo shibao], November 23, 1993, pp. 1-2.
6. United Daily [Lianhe ribao], November 22, 1993, pp. 1-2; China Times, [Zhongguo shibao], November 23, 1993, pp. 1-2.
7. Ibid., August 10, 1994, pp. 1-2.
8. China Times, May 20, 1996, p. 2.
9. Ibid., May 18, 1996, p. 2.
10. White Paper, Taipei, "The Statement on Cross-Straits Relations," Central Daily [Zhongyang ribao], July 6, 1994.
11. The Taiwan authorities were expelled from the U.N. and replaced by the PRC in October 1971.
12. Li Hongzhang was a high-ranking official in the Ch'ing dynasty who signed the April 1895 "Shimonoseki Treaty," which ceded Taiwan and Penghu to Japan. Since then Li has been regarded as a traitor in Chinese history and hated by the people.
13. "Native Taiwanese" refers to those whose ancestors had lived in Taiwan before 1945 when Japan surrendered. Most of their ancestors are people form southern Fujian Province or from the Hakka community in south China.
14. On February 28, 1947, a revolt against the KMT regime erupted in Taiwan and was suppressed by KMT troops. The exact number of dead was unclear; some estimated several thousand, some tens of thousands.
15. The Nineties (Jiushi niandai), Hong Kong, December 1995.
16. See Taipei's Guidelines for National Reunification, in John F. Copper, Words Across the Taiwan Strait: A Critique of Beijing's White Paper on China's Reunification (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1995), p. 125.
17. See Lee's interview with CNN correspondent in China Times, May 18, 1996, p. 2.
18. Text, U.S. State Department, May 17, 1996.
19. New York Times, May 10, 1996, p. 8.