| | National Committee on American Foreign Policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Meanwhile, as China increases the number of its missiles stationed opposite Taiwan and continues to modernize its air and naval forces and Taiwan continues to obtain advanced weapons from the United States and France and talks about increasing its military budget, an arms race is developing. |
 | | After the Chinese Communists militarily defeated the KMT and established their new regime on the mainland in 1949, one of the highest priorities that they set was the recovery of Taiwan where Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the KMT, his army, and many of his supporters had established their headquarters. |
 | | Concerning the mainland's fear that Taiwan under President Chen Shui-bian is moving toward separatism and two states, the participant said that it was constitutionally impossible for any leader in Taiwan to do this because the ROC constitution is a "one-China constitution." Even today the ROC constitution covers the mainland. |
| www.ncafp.org /record/2000/USchina.htm (9329 words) |