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Evaluates the various factors that influence the relationship between mainland China and Taiwan. Details on international factors; Factors originating in mainland China; Factors arising from developments within Taiwan.

Examines issues surrounding the national unity and territorial integrity of Taiwan. Significance of national reunification of China and Taiwan; Discussion on the civil war started by the Kuomintang; Position of the Chinese government regarding the settlement of the Taiwan question.

The Hu Jintao regime is likely to remain in power until the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in late 2012. It must, however, pick or groom a suitable elite and leaders to succeed Hu. The successors need to learn to navigate within the safe zones of a series of dialectical models to maintain the mainstream market-economy line of the CPC leadership within the context of Chinese Communism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Analyzes the political and economic condition of China after the death of Deng Xiaoping. Jiang Zemin as Deng's personal choice; Lawmaking in China; Political tensions happening in China; Brief information on how Taiwan became a part of China; Taiwan and the international community.