“In an interview last week, Ma [Ying-jeou] pledged that if he won the next presidential election, in 2008, as widely expected, he would shift Taiwan sharply away from the confrontational, pro-independence policies followed by President Chen Shui-bian. A Nationalist government under his leadership, he declared, would seek neither unification with nor independence from China, focusing instead on practical improvements in cross-strait relations while maintaining the status quo of Taiwanese self-rule.” (Washington Post, Sunday)
Let’s not forget Taiwan’s unlikely success story.
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“The Taiwan Model” by Hugh Macaulay