POL SCI 143A Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: High Tech, One-China Policy
29 Nov 2017
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1949: chiang kai-shek"s nationalists lose civil war and exile on taiwan. Cold war ended in asia sooner than in europe with nixon"s visit: the opening to the mainland in the early 1990s spurs cross-strait . China was nearest neighbor, trade started taking place. Economic integration: the island"s adoption of democracy to fill the legitimacy void as prc usurps one china role. Democratization in turn unleashes sub ethnic taiwan national identity . Separatism: the mainland"s growing military strength surpasses taiwan"s . Since 1988, 3 indirect links facilitate growing cross-strait economic integration. Beings with trade and tourism, then investment, then investment-driven trade. Beginning at turn of millennium, mainland investments increasingly high-tech. 1989: surge in taiwan exporting to china because of tiananmen. Some in taiwan very suspicious at economic integration. Got cornell to give him an alumni list and host a reunion. Li deng-hui wanted to maintain cordial relationship with mainland but also break it!
