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Tiny Taiwan Looms Large |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / ANALYSIS |
| Author: Helle Bering-Jensen |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1998 |
| Size: 2,412 Words, 15,253 Characters |
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Taiwan is a unique Asian conundrum: It could turn out to be either a prod that helps shepherd Beijing almost unwittingly onto the path of democracy or a goad that plunges behemoth China and industrially powerful America into war.
“Taiwan is an independent, sovereign country,” President Lee Teng-hui defiantly asserted after the October Sino-U.S. summit in Washington. And it is precisely the ambiguity over the Taiwan independence question that has explosive potential for the relationship between the world’s only superpower and its aspiring one.
Needless to say, the Taiwanese had been following the meetings between President Clinton and Chinese President Jiang Zemin closely for any signs of change in either the American or the Chinese position on the status of their island nation 120 mi...
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...cation that Lee will let the Taiwanese people down. But one thing is for sure: The next election will be watched every bit as closely in Beijing as was the last one.
Still, whatever the larger forces at work within the PRC, it is surely fair to say that Beijing will need a leader with a vision to move beyond Communist authoritarianism. Taiwan has been lucky to have men with such a vision.
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