An Excursion into the Relationships between Taiwan and China

Abstract

Keeping the Taiwan Strait in peace is the shared desire of the Taiwanese. However, the situation in the Taiwan Strait is a time bomb, to be detonated by the belligerent China, which plots to seize the island nation, Taiwan. Although most nations of the world do not recognize the PRC's territorial claim to Taiwan, many are not willing to challenge the claim. That Taiwan is not a part of the PRC is evidently true. Both of the San Francisco Peace Treaty and the Peace Treaty between the ROC and Japan only required Japan to surrender Taiwan without specifying to which country Taiwan's sovereignty was to be turned over. Unfortunately, people in Taiwan were forced to pay the price of the conflicts between KMT and the PRC. Under the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UN should not allow the PRC to impose its nationality on the 23 million Taiwanese through coercion. If the world is apathetic to peace in the Taiwan Strait, the PRC will have a free hand to wage war against Taiwan. The consolidating liberal democracy in Taiwan and supports from the U.S. and Japan should help China to think twice before deciding to overrun Taiwan.