There is much talk from Beijing about how the island has been part of China since time immemorial. The reality is more complicated, says journalist Brian Hioe
By Chen Yu-fu and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerWith China recently conducting large-scale military exercises around Taiwan, public perception that Beijing is hostile to the government and people of Taiwan has soared to 20-year highs, the Mainland Affairs Council （MAC） said yesterday.
Taipei, Aug. 17 (CNA) Fifty-percent of people in Taiwan believed that the United States would "definitely" or "possibly" send troops in the event a cross-strait war, according to a survey released Tuesday conducted after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived Taiwan for a whirlwind visit earlier this month.
something that is inconceivable today. deng s basic strategy toward taiwan was that as long as china remained open, dynamic and accommodating, time was on its side. taiwan would come to realize that there were many benefits and few costs to being formally attached to the mainland. but over the past ten years, president xi s policies have been to make china more closed, less dynamic and significantly less accommodating. nowhere is the latter policy been more clear than in hong kong, where beijing has reneged on virtually every important guarantee it made regarding the city state s freedom and autonomy. the results are plain to see in taiwan, in the 1990s, few taiwanese advocated for independence, and many believed reunification with china was inevitable. today, according to national university election study center, support for independence