Mainland
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Taiwan's Sovereignty DilemmaTo allay China's fury over his private trip to Taiwan this summer before becoming Singapore's prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong said that his country will not support Taiwan should it declare formal independence from
mainland
China.
Such symbolic politics forms a key part of the
mainland'
s relentless effort to isolate Taiwan internationally.
The latest source of contention - both on the domestic front and in relations with the
mainland
- concerns whether to write a new constitution.
Bilateral trade turnover reached $50 billion in 2003, and Taiwanese took almost four million trips to the
mainland.
The most obvious is that Iran’s nuclear program did not take off, whereas North Korea – which, unlike Iran, withdrew from the Non-Proliferation Treaty – already has an estimated 60 nuclear warheads, and seems to be making progress toward a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the US
mainland.
Given the vast cultural, economic, and institutional gaps between Hong Kong and the mainland, things could have been much worse.
On
mainland
China, Alibaba recently made history by raising $25 billion in the world’s largest initial public offering to date.
Without job prospects, the labor participation rate has plummeted to 40%, two-thirds of the level on the US
mainland.
Then, in 1957, the launch of Sputnik made it clear that the Soviet Union would soon be able to deliver a nuclear strike on the US mainland, calling into question the effectiveness of American deterrence.
The New “Two Chinas” QuestionNEW YORK – To anyone over the age of 60 who follows world affairs, the term “two Chinas” recalls the post-1949 competition for diplomatic recognition waged by
mainland
(“Red”) China and Taiwan, or, more formally, the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China.
The
mainland
was simply too large and too important economically and strategically to alienate.
Yet while the oversight board tacitly recognizes that many citizens will have to leave for the US
mainland
to find work, it expects output per worker to rise miraculously to compensate for the contraction of the labor force.
The US characterizes China’s policy as “anti-access area denial”: an effort to keep the US Navy far from the Chinese
mainland
and therefore from the coasts of America’s allies in the region.
With more Chinese citizens living outside
mainland
China than there are French people living in France, a similar story is playing out on almost every continent.
Similarly, while a recent poll found that 70% of Hong Kong’s people are proud of being ethnic Chinese, a similar percentage are ashamed of the conduct of the
mainland
government.
A key component of China’s strategy in the South China Sea is the dredging of low-tide elevations to make small islands, including in areas that, as China’s deputy foreign minister for Asian affairs, Liu Zhenmin, recently acknowledged, “are far from the Chinese mainland.”
The US will never place a large land army on the Asian
mainland
again.
The current political deadlock and recriminations in Washington are rooted in the shortsighted, impulsive, and emotional decisions that followed the first attack on the American
mainland
since the War of 1812.
Indeed, in the commercial banking sector, 41% of Hong Kong dollar claims on banks outside Hong Kong are to banks located on the Chinese
mainland.
While Hong Kong remains the largest investor in the
mainland
and reallocated 90% of its labor-intensive manufacturing to factories in China, the
mainland
is the second largest "foreign" investor in Hong Kong.
By June 1995,
mainland
China had invested more than $25 billion in Hong Kong, which represents about 80% of China's total overseas investment.
While
mainland
China has its comparative advantage of lower-cost labor, Hong Kong, as one of the largest free ports and financial centers in the world, registered in 1996 the world highest proportion -- 81% -- of GDP derived from services.
In this sense, sustaining economic growth in
mainland
China is the best insurance for the economic and financial stability of Hong Kong: the prosperity on the
mainland
provides better business opportunities for the people of Hong Kong than anywhere else.
A pronounced increase in investment by
mainland
companies in Hong Kong is extremely likely.
Taiwan’s December 2004 legislative elections had delivered an unexpected defeat for Chen and his ruling Democratic Progressive Party, or DPP, and the pro-independence camp’s failure to secure a legislative majority was seen as a positive development for relations with the
mainland.
With the rest of the European Union effectively closed to refugees in Greece, camps on the
mainland
have filled up.
Given the risks associated with direct military action, the US is now alleged to be using cyber weapons to eliminate the North Korean nuclear threat against the US
mainland.
Major General Wang Zaixi, Deputy Director of China's Taiwan Affairs Office, warned of the use of force if Taiwanese authorities "collude with separatist forces to openly engage in pro-independence activities and challenge the
mainland
and the one-China principle."
A new constitution, backed by a national referendum, is part of this drive to reshape Taiwan's identity and distinguish the new generation of politicians from those who arrived as exiles from the
mainland.
Few consider China's rulers to be even remotely friendly, and this growing aversion to the
mainland
provides daring politicians with room to maneuver.
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