Abstract
Xi Jinping’s People’s Republic of China is keen to express its grand strategic ambitions—the delivery of centennial goals by 2021 and 2049. This marks the end in which China seeks to keep a low profile. With notions like the ‘China Dream’, the Belt and Road Initiative, and a raft of other expressions and moves, Xi and his fellow leaders have shown that they want a more proactive foreign policy. In this ambitious, historically driven and more nationalistic strategic approach, the issue of Taiwan remains central. There has been more attempt to make some kind of framework for reunification on the part of Beijing accepted both internationally, and in Taipei. Taiwan’s space has been restricted, and a number of moves have placed pressure on the Tsai presidency, from trying to gain diplomatic allies currently linked to Taiwan, to refusing Taiwan space on the World Health Assembly and other bodies.
Highlights
Taiwan’s efforts to receive status and validation in the international community have focused in recent years at endeavouring to become members of bodies like the International Civil Aviation Authority and the World Health via free accessAssembly
What is clear is that this issue is symptomatic of the way that, under the leadership of Xi Jinping, the prc has become even more assertive and dogmatic in its stance on any form of recognition granted by third parties to Taiwan
As a press release in May 2018 from the official prc news agency, Xinhua, curtly put it, when discussion of Taiwan’s continuation of observer status was removed from the conference’s provisional agenda: The decision safeguarded the dignity of the relevant resolutions of the UN General Assembly and the wha, which fully proved that the oneChina principle is the consensus of the international community and corresponds with the trend of the times. . . . ‘I would like to reiterate again that the Chinese government will properly handle the issue of Taiwan’s participation in the activities of international organizations in accordance with the one-China principle,’ Lu Kang (PRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson) said. (Xiang Bo, 2018)
Summary
Taiwan’s efforts to receive status and validation in the international community have focused in recent years at endeavouring to become members of bodies like the International Civil Aviation Authority (icaa) and the World Health via free accessAssembly (wha). This is the result of over six decades of evolving discussion and debate within Beijing, and as often as not relates to domestic issues and the prc’s self-identity as it does to Taiwan or the international journal of taiwan studies 3 (2020D)ow2n8lo-a4d3ed from Brill.com11/02/2021 05:18:20PM
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