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	Taiwan (Republic of China)
		Chen had disregarded the role constraints, and pushed Taiwan into war with China by demanding independence, it definitely would have divided the people and he would consequently have lost their confidence in his power.
		In analyzing and comparing Taiwan’s foreign and domestic politics, it can be seen how much of a role the five domestic variables play in the structure of their foreign policies.
		Taiwan has gained international sympathy and support for its efforts to participate in international organizations, but they have yet to see results of their efforts in more important bodies.
	www.u.arizona.edu /~volgy/taiwanfp.html (6224 words)

	Taiwan History
		Today's Taiwan's aboriginal peoples are classified as belonging to the Austronesian ethno-linguistic group of people, a linguistic group that stretches as far west as Madagascar, to Easter Island in the east and to New Zealand in the south with Taiwan as the northern most point.
		Taiwan's elite hoped that by declaring themselves a republic the world would not stand by and allow a sovereign state to be invaded by the Japanese, thereby allying with the Qing.
		A number of advocates of Taiwan independence argue that the Instrument of Surrender of Japan was merely an armistice, a modus vivendi in nature, which served as a temporary or provisional agreement and always would be replaced with a peace treaty afterwards.
	www.traveltaiwanplus.com /history.html (2567 words)

	Legal status of Taiwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Taiwan and associated lands, also called "Formosa and the Pescadores", was permanently ceded by the Qing Dynasty to Japan via Articles 2b and 2c of the Treaty of Shimonoseki in May 8, 1895 in one of what the Chinese term as an unequal treaty.
		At the Cairo Conference, the U.S., United Kingdom, and the ROC agreed that Taiwan was to be returned to the ROC after the war, and the Potsdam Declaration outlined the terms of surrender.
		Cession of Taiwan without a recipient was neither unusual nor unique, since Cuba, as a precedent, was ceded by Spain without recipient in Treaty of Paris of 1898 as the result of Spanish-American War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Legal_status_of_Taiwan (2754 words)

	Three Insular Cases and the Taiwan Status(3)
		The WTO status of the Taiwan cession as a separate customs territory held under dominion by the United States Military Government can be directly derived from the judicial precedent in Downes v.
		The current political status of the Taiwan cession is not an internal affair of China, it is an insular affair of the TRA and SFPT.
		Thus the appointment of a High Commissioner of the Taiwan cession is an important line of defense for a constitutional right of TRA enhancement for unincorporated territory.
	www.taiwanadvice.com /delimavb2a3_3.htm (2374 words)

	Related Topics: Sovereignty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		And finally, the principle of accretion under international law recognises changes in sovereignty due to changes in natural geographic frontiers, and not the reverse; that is, the principle does not operate to alter established sovereignty by restoring territory to an adjacent state based on former natural geographic frontiers.
		Despite the use by the Republic of China of the term "retrocession" to describe her possession of Taiwan from 1945, the principle of cession is not relevant to the current dispute over Taiwan because no formal transfer of territory ever occurred.
		After 1952, there was no legal owner of Taiwan, unless the six and a half years that transpired between 1945 and 1952 can be presumed to have been a sufficient passage of time, and presuming acquiescence was present, to grant the Republic of China sovereignty by prescription.
	www.taiwandocuments.org /sovereignty.htm (1758 words)

	Dr. Ching-chih Chen
		Taiwan has developed separately from China for more than a century, to the extent that today Taiwan's people enjoy higher living standards and far more freedom and human rights than their counterparts in China.
		Taiwan is a democracy, and unification with China could never become a reality without the endorsement of the people through a referendum.
		Taiwan was a Japanese colony from 1895, when China ceded the island to Japan, to 1945, when the defeated Japan surrendered to the Allies.
	zen.sandiego.edu:8080 /CCC (6719 words)

	Taiwan Status (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Taiwan Question is undetermined at this time, and it is the goal of the civil affairs aspects of the One China policy to facilitate a peaceful and final political status.
		This was a USMG practice of civil affairs operations with French nationals residing in the UK whom served with British in WWII being subject to a bilateral agreement with the Free French and not the Vichy French in effective control of southern France.
		It was the civil administration of the separate customs territories by USMG and after the Spanish cession in the 1898 Treaty of Paris; the Congress gained their plenary powers to determine the political status of these separate customs territories.
	www.geocities.com /taiwanstatus/taiwanstatus (6602 words)

	3q2u - Richard W. Hartzell
		Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian and his advisors today interpret this clause to mean that the sovereignty of Taiwan has been returned to the Taiwanese people, however, under the law of war such an analysis is incorrect.
		The ROC on Taiwan currently has (a) permanent population, (b) defined territory, (c) government, and (d) the capacity to enter into relations with other states [international legal standards by which nationhood is adjudged], yet it is not considered a "sovereign nation" by the United Nations.
		Taiwan is now in interim status under the law of occupation as unincorporated territory under USMG, and during this period of interim status the Taiwanese are entitled to the US Constitution¡¦s fundamental rights, which apply in all insular areas.
	www.3q2u.com /archives/2004/02/19/000343.php (8067 words)

	Taiwan
		Taiwan envoy Douglas Paal, the U.S. government representative to Taiwan, is under fire from the State Department for misrepresenting Taiwan's policies to his bosses.
		Taiwan has been endeavoring to lift the stature of its 23 million people in the eyes of the international community as a foil to China's plans for unification.
		Taiwan's Vice President Annette Lu, who has taken the initiative in organizing this club for years, was elected the first DPU president at the inaugural meeting in Taipei in mid-August.
	www.arnie.net /taiwan.htm (6934 words)

	Asia Times Online - News from greater China; Hong Kong and Taiwan
		To be valid under international law, "cession by conquest" had to be confirmed by "cession by treaty".
		The Taiwan Relations Act of 1979 is a domestic law of the United States because Taiwan is still under US administrative authority.
		For Taiwan to solve many of the problems with which it is faced, the Taiwan governing authorities could offer more meaningful wording for a referendum as follows: "According to the San Francisco Peace Treaty, it can be maintained that United States administrative authority over Taiwan is still active up to the present day.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China/FB27Ad01.html (1253 words)

	Asian Regional Reviews
		As the "undetermined" cession of Formosa and the immediately adjacent Pescadores Islands came under Article 2 cession of the Japanese dependencies, the joint occupational authority of these island areas did not cease.
		This limbo status of Taiwan territory under the SFPT was the most enduring legal treaty status of the George Kerr's "joint occupation" of 1945.
		It is also the constitutional legacy of the SFPT cession by which he most lawfully left the people of Taiwan in "limbo" and such is still the bane of the China policy for today's American policy makers as the "strategic ambiguity" of Taiwan status.
	www.faoa.org /journal/asia1201.html (1988 words)

	FPRI-The-Taiwan-Relations-Act
		Indeed, Taiwan's view, in light of the China policy crafted during the Nixon/Kissinger years and the Carter administration's recognition decision, was that US backing increasingly depended on the island's friends on Capitol Hill rather than in the White House.
		Now that Taiwan has become democratic, any agreement must be politically sustainable among a constituency without recent ties to the mainland and that expects its preference for continued autonomy to be respected.
		Though the political dynamic in the authoritarian PRC obviously differs from that on democratic Taiwan, participants also emphasized the way the changing political character of the regime on the mainland is complicating cross-strait relations.
	taiwansecurity.org /IS/FPRI-The-Taiwan-Relations-Act.htm (1568 words)

	Alishan
		Alishan is known throughout Taiwan for its beautiful morning views of jagged peaks jutting out of a sea of fluffy clouds.
		Following the cession of Taiwan to Japan at the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese expeditions to the area found large quantities of cypress (or hinoki in Japanese).
		To combat the problems associated with the growing crowds of tourists, expanding tea and wasabi plantations the area was declared a national scenic area in 2001.
	www.traveltaiwanplus.com /Alishan.html (457 words)

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		They have contended that Taiwan (Formosa) is part of mainland China, whereas Taiwan and the U.S. have been stating that Taiwan is 'independent' and not apart of mainland China.
		Taiwan is foreign territory under the dominion of the US, or more technically a "quasi-trusteeship of insular status under the US military government." The passport issued to Taiwanese citizens would be similar to a "trusteeship" one, and would fall under the category of "US national, non-citizen."
		Taiwan is of major interest to the U.S., as it is to China.
	www.atsnn.com /story/105972.html (1766 words)

	Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States
		First is that Taiwan's separation is a bitter symbolic reminder of Japan's military successes at China's expense in the modern period.
		To the extent strict adherence to Chinese communist party Taiwan policy is an inviolable touchstone of systemic political loyalty, it may be more difficult to change, even if and as cross-strait circumstances change.
		The second organic connection between Japan, Korea, and Taiwan is that it was the outbreak of war on the Korean peninsula in June 1950 which likely prevented Mao Zedong from ordering the military campaign aimed at finally defeating a faltering Chiang Kai-shek.
	www.fas.org /irp/threat/missile/rumsfeld/pt2_gong.htm (2129 words)

	Taiwan
		Cloaked in the mantle of strategic ambiguity, the cession of Taiwan by peace treaty has been silently retained in a limbo status.
		As the final political status of the Taiwan territory is between the ROC and PRC, the retention of Taiwan under treaty status during ongoing interim of these negotiations is legally as the "secret colony" of the Pentagon under TRA.
		There are civil rights of Taiwan status under the TRA because of the customary laws of war.
	www.geocities.com /octa_org/article/Jeff/pentagon.htm (1198 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Step 2: When the government of the ROC fled to Taiwan in late 1949, it became a "government-in-exile." The ROC continued to exercise "effective territorial control" over this area which it was holding under military occupation.
		Step 3: In the post-war peace treaties, the sovereignty of Taiwan was not awarded to the ROC, hence Taiwan remains under the administrative authority of the US military government, and this is an interim status condition.
		However, at the present time, Taiwan is still under US administrative authority, and should be enjoying "fundamental rights" under the US Constitution, as in all other US overseas territories.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/edit/archives/2004/11/13/2003210901 (909 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Taiwan's secret: Island is territory of U.S.!
		In the mid to late 1800s all civilized nations came to recognize that territory seized or conquered in the course of war was not considered "annexed" but only "occupied." To finalize a formal territorial cession, there needed to be a formal peace treaty.
		In fact, this recognition of the law of war was already part of the "law of nations" before being formally codified in the Hague Conventions of 1907.
		This means that when Japan renounced the territorial sovereignty of Taiwan in the post-war peace treaty without naming a receiving country, in fact Taiwan was being relinquished to USMG as an interim status condition.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49379 (1004 words)

	Taiwan yan jiu (Taiwan Studies) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		HEADING-Engl: Special contributions in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Shimonoseki [Maguan] Treaty and the 50th anniversary of the recovery of Taiwan to China.
		ENGLISH: A brief history of the annexation of Taiwan by Japan: from the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 to "the Treaty of Shimonoseki".
		ENGLISH: An analysis of the words and deeds of Taiwan independence supporters on the anniversary of the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" with an assessment of their impact upon Taiwan's national self-identification.
	www.anu.edu.au /Asia/Chin/txt/TWYJ/1995/TWYJ-03-95.htm (957 words)

	E-Notes: The Taiwan Relations Act: Durable Agreement or Fraying Framework? - FPRI
		E-Notes: The Taiwan Relations Act: Durable Agreement or Fraying Framework?
		The PRC, International Law, and the Taiwan Question, Jacques deLisle,
		The Taiwan Question, Jacques deLisle, FPRI E-Notes, 7/99 Is China Unstable?, Minxin Pei, FPRI Wire, 7/99
	www.fpri.org /enotes/asia.19990908.goldstein.taiwanrelationsact.html (1825 words)

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