Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/255950 
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Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
SWP Comments No. 17/2005
Publisher: 
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
Abstract: 
By passing an 'Anti-Secession Law' in March 2005, China's National People's Congress could have contributed to a further polarization of Taiwan's political landscape. In late March, the island's main opposition party made an attempt to wrench back the initiative on mainland policy by negotiating a broadening of economic and other relations in Peking. In Taipei, the administration of Taiwan's president, Chen Shuibian, castigated the initiative as a sellout of national interests and launched a review of the entire economic relationship with the People's Republic of China (PRC). Both the government and the opposition are running considerable risks with a Taiwanese population that is at the same time opposed to the 'Anti-Secession Law' and supportive of a decrease in tensions across the Taiwan Strait. (SWP Comments / SWP)
Document Type: 
Research Report

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