The influences of democracy on Taiwan's foreign policy

Issues and Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1-30

  Jie, Chen ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Democracy; Democracy card; Parliamentary diplomacy; Party diplomacy; Secret diplomacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041027409     PISSN: 10132511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (73)

1. Chen's inaugural speech, in Zhongguo shibao (China Times) (Taipei), May 21, 2000.
2. Joseph S. Nye, Jr., "Soft Power," Foreign Policy, no. 80 (Fall 1990): 168-70.
3. See the web site of the International Cooperation and Development Fund (ICDF), Taipei's official agency in charge of overseas development aid.
4. For a critical study of Taipei's reactions to the anti-Chinese riot in May 1988 in Indonesia and that country's democracy movement, see Chen Jie, "Looking at Indonesia from Taipei: Beyond Ethnic Chinese and Rioters," Bulletin of Southeast Asian Studies (biannual, bilingual, Program for Southeast Asian Area Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei), no. 5 (September 1998): 101-4.
5. See, for example, such remarks made by then ROC Education Minister Wu Jing in 1997 in the aftermath of a visit to Chinese education institutions in Malaysia, Zhongyang ribao (Central Daily News) (Taipei), September 10, 1997.
6. Relevant reports on both the cases of abuses and NGO solidarity in tackling these abuses are numerous. My argument is based on reports released by the U.S.-based Nike Watch Campaign, Asia Monitor Resource Center (a Hong Kong-based networking center for Asian labor rights NGOs), Taipei-based Taiwan Grass-Roots Women Workers' Center, and Kaohsiung-based Fishermen's Service Center. An interview was also conducted with Eliot S. Cojuangco, labor representative of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei, January 12, 2000.
7. Zhongguo shibao, March 15, 1999.
8. The DPP web site.
9. Parris H. Chang's comments in Taiwan's Expanding Role in the International Arena, ed. Maysing H. Yang (Armonk, N.Y. and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1997), 10-11.
10. Frank O. Mora "The People's Republic of China and Latin America: From Indefference to Engagement, "Asian Affairs: An American Review 24, no. 1 (Spring 1997), Internet edition.
11. Central News Agency (CNA), Taipei, August 26, 1998.
12. For relevant reports, see CNA, Taipei, May 20 and June 10, 1998; and CNA, Washington, July 21, 1998.
13. For China-ASEAN alignment on human rights, see Chen Jie, "Human Rights: ASEAN's New Importance to China," The Pacific Review 6, no. 3 (1993): 227-37.
14. Interview with Hung Tsan, specialist at the ROC National Assembly and secretary of the Chinese National Group, APPU, Taipei, January 17, 2000.
15. ROC Foreign Policy Yearbook (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taipei), various editions.
16. ROC Foreign Policy Yearbook (1998), Internet edition.
17. Gottfried-Karl Kindermann, "The Relations of the ROC with the European Union," in The Republic of China on Taiwan in International Politics, ed. Marie-Luise Nath (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1998), 92.
18. See note 16 above.
19. Zhongguo shibao, October 12, 1997.
20. See note 16 above.
21. The KMT's web site.
22. Ibid.
23. Kindermann, "The Relations of the ROC with the European Union," 102.
24. Ibid., 97-98.
25. Ibid., 99.
26. See note 14 above.
27. South Pacific members include Tonga, Guam, Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Palau, Micronesia, Marshall Islands Northern Marianas, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Cook Islands, Nauru, and Western Samoa. See APPU Bulletin (Compiled by the APPU Central Secretariat, Tokyo), December 1995, 48-51.
28. See note 14 above.
29. Ibid.
30. APPU Charter, Rules, and By-Laws (Printed by the Chinese National Group, APPU, Taipei January 1998), 2, 7. These rules in the Charter were said to be the contributions by Ku Cheng-kang, secretary-general of the ROC National Assembly, during his involvement in the founding of APPU. See note 14 above.
31. Liaowang zhoukan (Outlook Weekly) (Beijing), 1996, no. 39:10.
32. Ibid.
33. The forum has twenty-three member states and one observer country. Members include Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, China, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Mongolia, New Zealand, South Korea, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Micronesia, Cambodia, Laos, Australia, Russia, and the United States. Brunei is the organization's only observer. See Bangkok Post, January 16, 1996.
34. Xinhua (New China) News Agency, Beijing, June 7, 16, and 18, and September 19, 1990; Xinhua, Manila, June 22, 1990; Renmin ribao (People's Daily), January 27, 1989; ibid., October 25 and 26, 1990.
35. Zhongguo shibao, June 29, 1999.
36. See note 14 above.
37. For example in June 1989, a delegation of Taiwanese parliamentarians attempted to stop in Manila on their way to attend the 45th Council Meeting of APPU in Port Moresby (the capital of Papua New Guinea). The PRC forced the Philippine government not to let the delegation use Manila as a transit, however. Thus, the delegation had to leave Manila for Singapore for a transit to Port Moresby. Such drama has not been repeated since. Ibid.
38. Interview with Kuo Sowang, international secretary of the KMT Party Relations Department, Taipei, January 4, 2000.
39. Ibid.
40. Interview with Chow Yen-hsin, Asia-Pacific Group of the DPP International Department, Taipei, January 17, 2000.
41. Interview with Michael Hsin-huang Hsiao, Taipei, December 1, 1998. Hsiao has been a national policy adviser, first to President Lee and now to President Chen.
42. See note 40 above.
43. The UNPO's web site.
44. See note 40 above. Reportedly, the DPP has also started to contact the Socialist International from 1998, with then secretary-general Chiu Yee-jen leading a delegation to visit the Socialist International's headquarters in Paris. See CNA, Taipei, June 8, 1998.
45. In addition to the Thai party and the DPP, current membership includes the Liberal Party of the Philippines, the Democratic Party of South Korea, the Gerakan Party of Malaysia, the Buddhist Liberal Democratic Party of Cambodia, the Singapore Democratic Party, the Liberal Party of Sri Lanka, and the United Development Party of Indonesia. See the CALD's web site.
46. Ibid.
47. Taiwan International Review (DPP Mission, Washington, D.C.) 1, no. 3 (November-December 1995), Internet edition.
48. Ibid.
49. See note 40 above.
50. The Liberal International's web site.
51. Southeast Asian Studies Discussion List, an e-mail discussion forum.
52. CNA, Taipei, June 8, 1998.
53. See note 38 above.
54. Ibid.
55. Ibid.
56. CNA, Taipei, February 14, 1999.
57. See note 38 above.
58. ROC Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Waijiao baogaoshu: Duiwai guanxi yu waijiao xingzheng (Foreign affairs white paper: External relations and diplomatic administration) (Taipei: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, December 1992), 374-76.
59. Zhongguo shibao, September 11, 1999.
60. CNA, Taipei, March 7, 1999.
61. Renmin ribao, December 19, 1997.
62. CCP Editorial Committee, Zhongguo gongchandang duiwai gongzuo gaikuang (Yearbook on foreign affairs work of the CCP) (Beijing: Modern World Press), various editions since 1994. This yearbook first appeared in 1994. The CCP's publishing of this yearbook indicated a new priority given to interparty diplomacy during the 1990s and its achievement.
63. Ibid.
64. Ibid. (1994), 3.
65. Ibid., various editions.
66. Renmin ribao, December 19, 1997.
67. Ibid.
68. The PRC may change this view now that the KMT is no longer in power.
69. CNA, Taipei, March 17, 1999.
70. Zhongyang ribao, February 26, 1998.
71. John Tusa, "Diplomats and Journalists - Sisters under the Skin," International Affairs (The Royal Institute of International Affairs, London), August/September 1996, 217-21.
72. Zhongyang ribao, February 15, 1994.
73. The Straits Times (Singapore), September 5, 1996; Reuters, Beijing, September 10, 1996; Reuters, Jakarta, September 4, 1996.