Although the essence of China's Taiwan policy has not changed from the era of Jiang Zemin to the present, the era of Hu Jintao, Jiang's and Hu's attitudes are different. Jiang was impatient with the delay in the unification of China and Taiwan, talking about timetables for unification; however, Hu has so far been patient, saying that he is not afraid of delaying unification. The purpose of this paper is to explain why their attitudes are different. I argue that two factors combine to result in Jiang's impatience and Hu's patience: conflicting ‘perceptions of Taiwan's domestic politics and Taiwan's China policy’ and differing ‘perceptions of the US behavior and attitude regarding Taiwan’. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
The article presents a speech by Chinese politician Jiang Zemin at the Taiwan work meeting of the Central Committee of China. He mentions the maintenance of close contacts of the Xinjiang region to the Central Plains of China, and highlights the historical and current situation regarding the issue of East Turkistan and the ethnic separatist forces of Xinjiang Xian.