A greater Chinese union

Washington Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 27-39

  Jakobson, Linda ^a  

^a Finnish Institute of International Affairs   (China)

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EID: 27944462279     PISSN: 0163660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0163660054026443     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. See Melody Chen, "Dislike of China's Law Widespread: Poll," Taipei Times, March 14, 2005.
2. International Crisis Group (ICG), "Taiwan Strait IV: How an Ultimate Political Settlement Might Look," ICG Asia Report, no. 75, February 26, 2004, www.icg.org/library/documents/asia/taiwan_strait/ 075_taiwan_strait_iv_ultimate.pdf. The ICG commissioned the author of this article to write the first draft of this ICG report, in which the model Greater Chinese Union was initially put forward. This article further elaborates on the model.
3. See Gareth Evans, "A 'Greater Chinese Union' With Taiwan?" International Herald Tribune, March 12, 2004;
4. Linda Jakobson, "Taiwan's Challenge to China and the World, Part II: 'Greater Chinese Union' Offers Best Political Solution," YaleGlobal Online, March 15, 2004, http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=3520.
5. Daniel J. Elazar, "International and Comparative Federalism," PS: Political Science and Politics 26, no. 2 (June 1993): 190.
6. David A. Rezvani, "On the Emergence and Utility of 'Federacy' in Comparative Politics" (paper, WPF Fellows Roundtable Discussion, WPF Program of Intrastate Conflict, Conflict Prevention and Conflict Resolution, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., May 14, 2004), p. 4.
7. Rene Nyberg, "Demililitarisointi ei estä puolustamasta Ahvenanmaata" (Demilitarization Does Not Rule Out Defending the Åland Islands), Sotilasaikakauslehti (Finnish Journal of Military Affairs) 66, no. 1 (1991): 12.
8. Ruth Lapidoth, Autonomy: Flexible Solutions to Ethnic Conflicts (Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace, 1996), pp. 70-77.
9. Nyberg, "Demililitarisointi ei estä puolustamasta Ahvenanmaata," pp. 11-14.
10. Rezvani, "On the Emergence and Utility of 'Federacy' in Comparative Politics," p. 13.
11. Unnamed Chinese official, interview with author, Beijing, 2003.
12. Unnamed Taiwanese officials, interviews with author, Taipei, 2002-2003.
13. "Permanent Missions to the United Nations," http://www.un.org/Overview/missions.htm#iga.
14. James W. Watson, "Rites or Beliefs? The Construction of a Unified Culture in Late Imperial China," in China's Quest for National Identity, eds. Lowell Dittmer and Samuel S. Kim (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993), p. 93.
15. Ibid., p. 99.
16. See Linda Jakobson, A Million Truths: A Decade in China (New York: M. Evans, 1998), pp. 202-203;
17. Robert P. Weller, Alternate Civilities: Democracy and Culture in China and Taiwan (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999), pp. 26-27.
18. Thomas Bartlett, "The Role of History in China's View of the World Today," Pacific Review 13, no. 1 (February 2001): 118.
19. See Murray Scot Tanner, "China Rethinks Unrest," The Washington Quarterly 27, no. 3 (Summer 2004): 137-156.
20. Chen has spoken of long-term "political integration" (zhengzhi tonghe), not "unification" (tongyi). Although the concepts are different, in Chinese they share one common character (tong).
21. Linda Jakobson, "Taiwan's Unresolved Status: Visions for the Future and Implications for EU Foreign Policy," FIIA Report, no. 8, 2004, p. 45, www.upi-fiia.fi/julkaisut/upi_raportti/raportit/FIIA%20Report%208.pdf.
22. He Baogang, "The Question of Sovereignty in the Taiwan Strait," China Perspectives, no. 34 (March-April 2001): 9-17.