• WINSTON WONG & JIANG MINGHENG
• $1.6 BILLION IC PLANT
• $45 BILLION INVESTED
• $30 BILLION ANNUAL TRADE
• 300,000 MANAGERS TO CHINA

• THE BACKGROUND
• TRA "to determine . . . appropriate action by the United States" in the event of "any threat to the security or the social or economic system of the people on Taiwan."
• 1982 COMMUNIQUE "does not seek to carry out a long-term policy of arms sales to Taiwan, that its arms sales to Taiwan will not exceed, either in qualitative or quantitative terms the level of those supplied in recent years¼and that it intends to reduce gradually its sales of arms to Taiwan, leading over a period of time to a final resolution."
• "ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS"
• TAIWAN UNDER KMT
• RISE OF LEE TENG-HUI
• ELECTION
• GROWTH OF TAIWAN IDENTITY
• 1991
• STRAITS EXCHANGE FOUNDATION
• ARATS
• THREE LINKS
• 96 CRISIS
• 99 LEE’S "STATE TO STATE" APPROACH
• MARCH 2000 - CHEN ELECTION - "the leaders on both sides (of the Taiwan Strait) possess enough wisdom and creativity to jointly deal with the question of a future "one China" . . . as long as the CCP regime has no intention to use military force against Taiwan, I pledge that during my term in office, I will not declare independence, I will not change the national title, I will not push forth the inclusion of the so-called "state-to-state" description in the Constitution, and I will not promote a referendum to change the status quo in regard to the question of independence or unification.

• ISSUES
• "CHINA"/"1 COUNTRY....."
• SOVEREIGNTY
• FEDERATION
• NATURE OF CHINA’S THREAT
• MILITARY
• ECONOMIC
• TIME - ON WHOSE SIDE?
• US INTERESTS
• TAIWAN SECURITY
• RELATIONS WITH CHINA
• SECURITY PRESENCE IN REGION

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