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Although recent developments across the Taiwan Strait are merely a continuation of the strained relationship between the communist People's Republic and the Republic of China on Taiwan, they have alarmed the international community. Mainland communist leaders have employed intimidation tactics in a desperate and failed attempt to influence the presidential election on the democratic island...
...cause of the heightened risk of conflict was a hotly contested election in which the party of the winning candidate supports official separation of Taiwan from mainland China. The weeks prior to the election were marred by a string of thinly veiled warnings by the mainland regime to dissuade voters in Taiwan from considering this candidate. In light of the results of the polls, however, it would appear that these efforts were ineffectual at best and dangerously provocative at worst...
Though immediate action towards Taiwanese independence seems unlikely, the mere prospect of such an occurrence is anathema for the mainland government. Ostensibly, Chinese communists appeal to a sense of nationalism as justification for these threats, which are becoming more or less a challenge to their brethren on Taiwan to surrender or be destroyed. Among the warnings was a statement of conditions for which Taiwan can expect retaliation amounting to annihilation. This list includes proclamation of independence, foreign intervention and, more ominously, protracted delays in progress toward reunification with the mainland...
...integrity of Chinese soil seems to have overtaken the importance of the inhabitants of this patch of earth. If the communists proceed along a course perilously close to war, they might find themselves occupying wasteland, if circumstances compel them to make good their threats. Oddly enough, the mainland regime seems to believe that death threats would induce their compatriots to eagerly embrace the mainland and consider communist proposals for reunification...
...fratricide and destruction, the ultimate means of attaining national unity is one that may chafe communist authorities even more than Taiwanese independence. If they truly wish to promote cultural integrity and welfare for their denizens (presumably including the residents of Taiwan), they ought to realize that reunification with the mainland would not likely even be considered by Taiwanese until the communist government makes definite progress towards democratization...