1. The New Relationship between the KMT of Taiwan and the CCP of China.
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Hsiao-Yun Yu
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TAIWANESE people , *PRESIDENTIAL elections - Abstract
In April 2005, the Kuomintang (KMT) leader, Mr. Lian Zhan, made his initial visit to the Mainland China and met with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Secretary General, Mr. Hu Jin-Tao, at the Cross-Strait Party Summit, which had been the first historical meeting between KMT and CCP leaders after 60 years since 1945. In 2006, the KMT and CCP jointly held âThe Cross-Strait Economic Forum,â âThe Cross-Strait Agriculture Forum, and âThe Cross-Strait Youth Forum,â during which extensive cross-strait measures beneficial to Taiwanâs agriculture, fishery, medicine, education, and culture were reached to draw Taiwanese peopleâs feelings. This paper examines and analyzes the dynamic interactions between the KMT and the CCP since KMTâs ice-breaking visit to Beijing in 2005. It concludes that, with the formally established contact and exchange between the two parties, the KMTâs push for the KMT-CCP forums was aimed to show that the party was more capable and competent than the incumbent Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in dealing with cross-strait relations, while the CCP intended to deter the Taiwan-independence forces through the KMT-CCP cooperation. Unfortunately, such exchange mechanism has been unable to affect the incumbent DPP power structure, thus making it difficult to receive DPP governmentâs support for achieving any concrete implementation outcomes. On the other hand, once CCPâs âplaying softer-and-softerâ beneficial strategy fails to draw Taiwanese peopleâs feelings or to facilitate the Pan-blueâs victory in the 2008 presidential election in Taiwan, the cross-strait relations would very possibly evolve into a more insecure and dangerous situation. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008