China-Taiwan Relations in Terms of One China and the Taiwan Question

In deciding on which course of action would be the most appropriate in resolving the Taiwan-China conflict, it would be necessary to understand the conflict and the attempts made to resolve such conflict to have a proper perspective on the issue. It would also help to analyze why the previous techniques were not successful before adopting any policy recommendation to resolve the conflict.

However, realism provides that the islands allow China to threaten other nations, due to it’s extensive reach across the South East Asian world. Realism provides a stronger ideology of these disputes, since the nations, Vietnam and China, lived in peace before the 1960s, however this is because they both assumed the islands were under their jurisdiction. Ironically, the Nansha Islands, have been ‘claimed’ by multiple nations, making the right of sovereign of this territory ambiguous. The geographical location of the Islands makes it difficult to determine in which countries border it falls into, since Vietnam, Cambodia, Brunei, Malaysia, China, Taiwan, Thailand and Indonesia all have a shoreline with the territory. A liberalistic approach to understand that the island are under Taiwan jurisdiction geographically are ignored by the realist nature of China’s suborn claim, exhibiting that the realistic ideology is vastly unhelp in this matter. In 2009 China made a claim for the SCS, on the basis of their historical link with the land through the nine-dash line map, since their ancestors used the territory for fishing and navy. A liberalistic approach of was taken by the ASEAN, as they stepped in to resolve the dispute according to international law. However, realism provides that this dispute will continue due to China’s thirst for

Shaped by the British and western idea of democracy, Hong Kong is continually conflicted with China because of their different political systems. Facing the truth that non-democratic China also experienced a rapid growth in economy, it 's hard to tell which side has both moral and practical advantages. However, besides the political discord, both China and Hong Kong are facing the

Japan and People’s Republic of China have been in a long dispute over a group of islands off the coast of Taiwan. This dispute over the islands has cause a confusion on the actual names, though to the western world they are known as the Pinnacle Islands. Under Japan’s claim of ownership they are known as Senkaku Islands, Senkaku is a rough translation from the English name for the islands, while under the claim of China they are known as the Diaoyu Islands, Diaoyu means “to fish” in Chinese. The islands themselves set very close to the east of China’s mainland and west of Japan’s Okinawa Island. For this current event paper I will include the actors of this conflict with a brief history of the conflict from the view point of each actor, what interest each actor possess that causes claims to this islands difficult, what each actor hope to get out of the islands, what strategies and policies that have been or are taking place to help, in some cases not help, settle this dispute, and what institutions attempt to bring to the negotiation table to ease the tension.

The rapid rise in economy of China has turned this country into rival of America. However, in an effort to change the trade policies of China, stop military operations reinforce Beijing 's South China Sea from America, but that’s not enough improve diplomatic relations with 11 countries in the TPP agreement. Beijing said the United States is a force only in Asia as they want, while China will forever be a force in Asia. As candid statement of the Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong during his visit to Washington last August, the TPP will "challenge the prestige" of the United States with partners in the region. According to Mr. Li, each nation has faced some opposition political and sensitive issue in the country, pay a political price to get to the negotiating table and signed agreements but finally they cannot receive what they want. Now, United State diplomats do not have what they want in Asia, After the US told the regional partners was signed TPP will strengthen America 's leadership position in the region, the regional partner also concluded to be a waiver of TPP would undermine America 's leadership position and China is ready to be leadership position which vacated this area. In terms of the overall situation of power in Asia, the US withdrew from the TPP, that means United State is bringing the beneficial strategy for China, not only because a trade agreement supported by the United States, U.S foreign policies will be disappear forever

Economic and political tensions are rising in the South China Sea, part of the Pacific Ocean stretching from Singapore to the Philippines to South East Asia. Recently, countries including the various Southeast Asian countries as well as China claimed territory in the South China Sea. As countries become increasingly intimidated by these new claims, the United States is stepping in, which only causes tensions to increase. Now the South China Sea is a battleground for the resources it holds, and one who studies Chinese history and its interactions with the west can see the reasons why China is compelled to claim territory, and why the West, specifically the United States, feels threatened by these claims.

For section two of the book, the author purposely dedicated chapter 5 to “U.S-China Misunderstandings”. The author breaks the chapters up into different questions from the general view point Americans get wrong about China to more in-depth issues such as ethnicity, religion, and governing system. It is clear that the focus of the chapter is about the misunderstandings that some Americans may have of China, thus it could be difficult for some non-American readers to relate to this specific chapter.

Since 1919, there is a common emphasis on the realism in world politics and this has caused the Realist Theory to become prominent for mostly all the matters of international relations as perceived from Carr (2014). The realism has been continued to be part of international relations since this time and it has still been under consideration with high dominance. The dominance of this theory was provided after the cold war and then it remained in power. The main focus of realism theory in the proposed study would remain in the delivery of the background study of the dispute that is a South China Sea dispute, in accordance with its evolution, conflict management, and resolution (Morgenthau 2014). This would help in understanding the nature acquired by the claimant nations

Under these circumstances, Taiwan’s bid for independence, particularly over the last few decades, hardly constitutes shock or surprise, though the development of a deeply entrenched stalemate between China and Taiwan to the extent of potential warfare resulting thereof places the welfare of China, Taiwan, and, potentially, the international community, in a surprising level of political and economic danger. The initial response from China in regard to Taiwanese independence established a precedent for military coercion in order to integrate Taiwan into the PRC, and resulted in a standoff between Beijing and Taipei in regard to negotiation and compromise, from which, ironically, neither will budge. Overall, regardless of the final decision on Taiwanese independence from China, the political stalemate on both sides of the

“The campaign of the occupation lays the advantages as well as the disadvantages of the CSSTA under the sun stark naked; unfortunately, the pact is already passed. The forced adoption by the KMT highlights the Ma government’s arbitrary abuse of the power and infringement of the human right, leading to the constitutional crisis of the retrogression in democracy. It meanwhile stimulates civilians to ponder the rebirth of democracy.” (堅持，直到島嶼天光, see footnote , translation mine). The interaction of the trade activities between Mainland China and Taiwan always “successfully” draws attention from the global, but this time the fuel is directly presented in the manifesto of the Sunflower Movement--堅持，直到島嶼天光. People are mainly protesting the CSSTA [Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement, CSSTA] against the untransparent processes. This agreement, passed without the regular procedure, underlines the dark side of the Ma government and how it simultaneously summons up civilians to deeply think about what is now striking the democracy in Taiwan. In addition to the domestic problems originating from the CSSTA, the other vital issue our nation is encountering now is that Taiwan is standing at a lower position in this financial game. “The scales and structures of business are totally different between Taiwan and China. If we just accept the trade without detailed consideration, China is likely [taking] control over Taiwan by means of financial interactions, and it will lead to what Hong Kong

From an international relations perspective, the Taiwan Strait, one of the most likely conflict zones in the Asia-Pacific region, has been dubbed the “Balkan Peninsula of the East.” The status of Taiwan has been one of the most intricate issues in international relations arena for the past decades. The Taiwan question is essentially an extension of the “two Chinas” problem, which creates a dilemma for accommodating the existence of Taiwan under the vague concept of the one-China policy (Hsieh, P., 2009). The Taiwan issue has been regarded as the most sensitive question between China and the United States. Although China-U.S. relations have made significant progress, the Taiwan issue concerns Chinese and American decision makers for many years.

The goal of studying international politics is to create generalizable conclusions about the relationships at the international level. That is, there is a scientific method used to understand how the world works. The three main methods for understanding how the world works are realism, liberalism, and constructivism. The purpose of this paper is to explain the components of the main theories and apply them to the relationship between Taiwan and China, and the likelihood, or lack thereof, of another great power war. The dispute arose from the Chinese nationalists fleeing to the island of Taiwan after Mao Zedong and his communist revolution took over mainland China. The conflict here is whether or not the independence of Taiwan will be recognized or the People’s Republic of China will seek to invade Taiwan and assert its dominance over it, thus creating a possibility of war with the United States. Liberalism is the best theory in international relations because it best explains the situation in Taiwan and presents the best generalizable conclusion for how the relationships between states work.

Traditionally, international politics have been dominated by Eurocentric ideals and ‘Western Hemisphere’ interpretations. Rule by Roman Empire, European Coloniser and more recently, United States (US) hegemons, has dominated in the defining of power, diplomacy and sovereignty throughout Western history. For most of its own lengthy history, China developed in the shadow of the Western Hemisphere, shaping its own course from its Neolithic routes around 12,000 years ago year; rising and falling several times since Yu the Great started the Xia Dynasty in c. 2070 BC. On the back of its most recent rise as a result of economic reforms in the late 1970s which introduced China to the world economy, in a little under forty years China has emerged as the world’s second largest economy which will soon challenge a declining US. Alongside its economic rise, China’s prominence in the traditionally Western-dominated international political arena has also risen, to the point where every move - from changes to policy to military action - has potentially global impacts, and is thus scrutinized. In order to allay concerns around China’s transparency,

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In addressing a long-time conflict, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled on 29 October 2015 that it will be holding hearings over a South China Sea territorial dispute filed by the Philippines against the People’s Republic of China. The South China Sea has been a region of large dispute over both unresolved island and maritime claims by the People’s Republic of China, Republic of China (Taiwan), Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines (Buszynski and Sazlan, 2007). The most recent issues at hand is the PRC’s construction efforts in the highly contentious Spratly Islands, or Nansha (南沙群岛) over the past year along with the Philippines’ case filed with the Permanent Court of Arbitration. In this paper, I will be discussing the historical context and situation, examining the academic and legal responses to the issue, and analyzing the conflict within the international law framework. Because this is a relatively recent development with little to no legal scholarship surrounding the event, my analysis will be limited to news articles and journal articles regarding previous Sino-Philippine maritime conflict.