While political relations between China and Taiwan have gone from bad to worse in recent years, the growing importance … of economic relations between both sides of the Taiwan Strait has compelled governments on both sides to amend relevant … organisations. This historic trend started in 1992, when Taiwan's Legislative Yuan passed a statute authorising courts to recognise …

relations, the administrations of China, Taiwan, and the United States. This paper assesses salient costs and benefits for the …The improvement in cross strait relations as a result of initiatives of the Ma Ying-jeou administration in Taiwan …

of Hong Kong in 1997 and of Macau in 1999. Beijing's current political agenda is to unify Taiwan with China. A realist … in settling the Taiwan question, and that the United States will also cease its support of Taiwan if China becomes still … economic power that China enjoys. All the above views share one key idea's it is power that matters, power that decides Taiwan …