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The International Standing of the Republic of China on Taiwan*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Michael Yahuda
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In the 1990s Taiwan began to pose a complex new challenge to the international community. At issue is Taiwan's attempt to revise the so-called “one China” policy as it had been previously understood. By seeking to be treated as a separate state that was distinct from mainland China, Taiwan was embarking on a new approach that confronted the Beijing government with what it saw as the totally unacceptable prospect of secession by a renegade province that would in effect subvert China's unity and national coherence.

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Taiwan's Foreign Relations
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The China Quarterly , Volume 148 , December 1996 , pp. 1319 - 1339
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1996

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36 Lee Kuan Yew interviewed in Time Magazine (4 March 1996) warned that Asian countries were concerned about what kind of China was emerging and said that China would be balanced “only if the Americans are anchored here along with Japan.”

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