For the first time in 60 years, a high ranking Chinese official, Chen Yunlin, in charge of Taiwan affairs, set the feet in Taiwan, meeting the president Ma Ying-jeou
(http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1857093,00.html).
The event it’s the last from a long list of intensified contacts, in the first half of this year, leading to the opening of the first regular, direct flight from mainland China to Taiwan, in July (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7488965.stm). While the potential towards supporting this opening in the relations across the straits is increasing, Taiwan’s aims to get more international space of manoeuvre continue to be hard to estimate (http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=779479).
But, in fact, China don’t have what to negotiate and why. The economic opportunities offered, the cheep labour force, the geopolitical positioning – to name only a few of them - are offering to China a series of key-advantages in the relationships of any kind with the Western democracies.
And, apparently neither the high level of corruption, a serious warning regarding the healthy economic relationship any Western investors will have to develop with the Chinese authorities - http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=19628&prog=zch , nor the disturbing level of human rights violations (http://hrw.org/doc/?t=asia&c=china) are a reason enough to continue “business as usual”. Shortly before the outburst of the most violent anti-China protests from Tibet in the last 20 years, the US removed it from the list of top ten human rights violators and the Olympic Games were held as scheduled this year in Beijing, despite a worldwide protest. Tibet continue to be a matter of international concern, but the access of the international media in the area is strictly limited and the information are completely biased and it is hard to believe the situation will change in a foreseeable future. (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iAMqM2_Dwudz52KLQeY2ZKFQq9-gD949EHQG0)
See also:
Relations between China and Taiwan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-Strait_relations
Relations between China and Tibet
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSSP114310
(http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1857093,00.html).
The event it’s the last from a long list of intensified contacts, in the first half of this year, leading to the opening of the first regular, direct flight from mainland China to Taiwan, in July (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7488965.stm). While the potential towards supporting this opening in the relations across the straits is increasing, Taiwan’s aims to get more international space of manoeuvre continue to be hard to estimate (http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=779479).
But, in fact, China don’t have what to negotiate and why. The economic opportunities offered, the cheep labour force, the geopolitical positioning – to name only a few of them - are offering to China a series of key-advantages in the relationships of any kind with the Western democracies.
And, apparently neither the high level of corruption, a serious warning regarding the healthy economic relationship any Western investors will have to develop with the Chinese authorities - http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=19628&prog=zch , nor the disturbing level of human rights violations (http://hrw.org/doc/?t=asia&c=china) are a reason enough to continue “business as usual”. Shortly before the outburst of the most violent anti-China protests from Tibet in the last 20 years, the US removed it from the list of top ten human rights violators and the Olympic Games were held as scheduled this year in Beijing, despite a worldwide protest. Tibet continue to be a matter of international concern, but the access of the international media in the area is strictly limited and the information are completely biased and it is hard to believe the situation will change in a foreseeable future. (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iAMqM2_Dwudz52KLQeY2ZKFQq9-gD949EHQG0)
See also:
Relations between China and Taiwan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-Strait_relations
Relations between China and Tibet
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSSP114310
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