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This 7-page paper discusses the current, and tense, relationships between the People's Republic of China, the U.S. and Taiwan. The paper also discusses how destabilized China would be if Taiwan were to declare independence. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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each other uneasily across the Straights of Taiwan, waiting for the other to blink. Though the PRC has been, more or less accepted in the world, and though the rule
of communism (not to mention the status of superpower) not quite so threatening as it once was, there are still those who believe that the greatest danger, in this day
and age, to world security is the possibility of a military confrontation between China and Taiwan (Liberthal, 2005). Such a confrontation would be catastrophic, as it would draw the U.S.
into a war against the PRC (Liberthal, 2005). Though neither side wants any of this to end up in war, experts such as Liberthal contend that "both sides have adopted
policies that run an unacceptably high risk of bloodshed over the next several years" (Liberthal, 2005, 53). But how would such an attack impact both countries? While it could be
assumed that the mighty PRC would run roughshod over the Taiwanese island nation, that might, in the long run, not necessarily be the case.
China, on the one hand, is building its regional military abilities only to deter Taiwanese independence -- but Liberthal points out that China hasnt exactly clarified what "declaring independence"
means. Taiwan, on the other hand, has a leadership that doesnt want a military confrontation, but continues to, as Liberthal terms it, "push the envelope just short of one" (Liberthal,
2005). One way in which the leadership does this is by declaring that Taiwan is an independent sovereign country (Liberthal, 2005). Furthermore, while Chinas military buildup is strong, Taiwans has
been declining, meaning that this country doesnt have enough defenses to stave off an attack from the mainland (Liberthal, 2005). The U.S. is
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