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Forging a New Identity Ma believes the time for change has come. Squished into his train seat, the Harvard-educated lawyer outlined to TIME a detailed program that he hopes will broaden Taiwan's relations with China and eventually lead to real peace. He talks of reaching a "comprehensive economic...
Such sentiments are the reason Taiwan's March 22 presidential election is potentially one of the most important East Asia has seen in recent memory. A Ma victory could usher in a sea change in the tense relationship between China and Taiwan. In 1949 Mao Zedong's communists chased Chiang...
Formally at least, Taiwan's independence has proven an impossible dream. Beijing, highly sensitive to any threat to its claims to the island, has successfully thwarted Taiwan's efforts to get international recognition. Taiwan isn't even a member of the U.N. Under Chen, issues of Taiwan sovereignty and identity...
The strategy, however, has backfired. Chen's actions irked Beijing, and relations between the two have been more or less frozen for eight years. In early March, Chinese President Hu Jintao called Taiwan's independence efforts "the biggest threat to peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait." Chen also annoyed...
Ma's solution is simple: Don't rock the boat. His policy is enshrined in what are called the "three nos": no unilateral moves toward formal independence, no talks with the mainland on unification and no use of military force. The idea is to ditch the ideological hang-ups of...