Taiwan's Future

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John Huang (Secondary School)

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Professor David A. Rezvani

28 July 2014

Taiwan's Future: Unifying or Not

After World War II, Taiwan was returned to China from Japan according to Japanese Instrument of Surrender. China, then, appointed the chief executive for Taiwan, and ruled it until 1949 when the Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) in China lost the civil war with the Communist Party of China (CPC). KMT's officials and army flee to Taiwan, and establish Republic of China (ROC) with a new capital city, Taipei. Meanwhile, CPC claimed China, or People's Republic of China (PRC), as its territory, and started its communist practices, such as the Five Year Plans, that combined Leninist ideas and the CPC chairman, Mao Zedong's, policies.

The following paper is going to argue that China will unify Taiwan in the future. The paper will present the idea that even if Taiwan refuse to unify with China, China will still enforce the unification to happen either in one step, or in "a thousand cut" like Hong Kong (Rezvani 2013).

President Ma favors China, and consistently talks with China for political issues. This brings Taiwan closer to China politically. Furthermore, there are signed economic agreements and potential economic contracts between China and Taiwan, which, again, brings Taiwan and China closer together since the economic pacts might let Taiwan relies on China more. Lastly, the paper will draw the attention to the counterargument: Some scholars and Taiwanese citizens might declare that Taiwan will forever be a democratic country with its own sovereignty based on the recent protests, and the Taiwan Relation Act between Taiwan and USA will protect Taiwan from China's dominance. On the other hand, there are evidences that show neither the protests nor the Act can stop China's movements to dominate...