China and Taiwan: A proposal for peace

Security Dialogue

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 327-336

  Tsang, Steve ^a  

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EID: 0041112497     PISSN: 09670106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0967010600031003006     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. The white paper was released by the Taiwan Affairs Office and the Information Office of the State Council on 21 February 2000. It is available in the PRC Foreign Ministry website at http://www.fmprc.gov.cn.
2. Mao Zedong himself stated the Communist Party's policy in an interview with Edgar Snow in 1936. Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977), pp. 128-129. See also S. T. Hsiao & L. R. Sullivan, 'The Chinese Communist Party and the Status of Taiwan, 1928-1943', Pacific Affairs, vol. 52, no. 3, Fall 1979, pp. 446-467.
3. Mao Zedong himself stated the Communist Party's policy in an interview with Edgar Snow in 1936. Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977), pp. 128-129. See also S. T. Hsiao & L. R. Sullivan, 'The Chinese Communist Party and the Status of Taiwan, 1928-1943', Pacific Affairs, vol. 52, no. 3, Fall 1979, pp. 446-467.
4. Steve Tsang, 'Maximum Flexibility, Rigid Framework: China's Policy Towards Hong Kong and its Implications', Journal of International Affairs, vol. 49, no. 2, Winter 1996, pp. 413-433.
5. For a critical analysis, see Steve Tsang, 'Transforming a Party State into a Democracy', in Steve Tsang & Hung-mao Tien, eds, Democratization in Taiwan: Implications for China (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999), pp. 1-22.
6. For a brief but critical analysis, see Hungdah Chiu, 'Constitutional Development in the Republic of China' in Steve Tsang, ed., In the Shadow of China: Political Developments in Taiwan since 1949 (London: Hurst & Co., 1993), pp. 17-47, particularly pp. 18-21.
7. For the position of Premier, Chen nominated, among others, Tang Fei, a longstanding Kuomintang member and Defence Minister in the outgoing Kuomintang.
8. The Mainland Affairs Council of the ROC Government collates and reproduces the results of the main opinion surveys conducted independently in Taiwan. This information is readily available on the internet (http://www.mac.gov.rw/english/POS/ 890315/8903e_1.gif). The percentage in support of independence as soon as possible usually hovers between 5 and 10% between 1996 and early 2000, reaching a high point of 14% in August 1999. The 85% in favour of maintaining the current situation includes those who also express a wish to see Taiwan become independent eventually, and those who would also like to see unification in the future. The percentage in support of unification includes those who support it as soon as possible and those who favour maintaining the current situation but who support unification eventually.
9. For the Hong Kong negotiations, see Steve Tsang, Hong Kong: An Appointment With China (London: I. B. Tauris, 1997), pp. 81-110; for a perceptive insider account, see Percy Cradock, Experiences of China (London: John Murray, 1994), pp. 161-215.
10. For the Hong Kong negotiations, see Steve Tsang, Hong Kong: An Appointment With China (London: I. B. Tauris, 1997), pp. 81-110; for a perceptive insider account, see Percy Cradock, Experiences of China (London: John Murray, 1994), pp. 161-215.
11. Xingzhengyuan Dalu Weiyuanhui [Mainland China Affairs Commission of the Executive Yuan], ed., Dalu Gongzuo Cankao Ciliao [Reference Material for Handling Mainland Affairs], vol. 2 (Taipei: Xingzhengyuan Dalu Weiyuanhui, 1998), p. 506. Jiang first stated this position on 30 January 1995 before the death of the then paramount leader Deng Xiaoping. The statement of 1997 was made after the retrocession of Hong Kong and the death of Deng when Jiang clearly consolidated his position as the top leader in China.