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Taiwans
Expanding Role
in the
International
Arena

An International Conference Volume Sponsored by
Department of Foreign Affairs
Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan

TAIWAN IN THE MODERN WORLD

Taiwans
Expanding Role
in the
International
Arena

Parris H. Chang	Lim Lo-tsui
Lung-chu Chen	Bih-Jaw Lin
Peter P. Chen	William OChee
Frank Ching	Wolfgang Sachsenrder
C.L. Chiou	Sonn Se-Il
Ralph Clough	Su Chi
M.D. Fletcher	Tien Hung-Mao
Hung Lien-te	Bertrand Tsai
Hidenori Ijiri	Peter Vale
Cornelius Jaenen	Byron S. Weng
Barbara Krug	Alfred D. Wilhelm Jr.
Li Lu	Michael Yahuda
James Lilley	Maysing H. Yang

Maysing H. Yang, Editor

Foreword by Michael Y. M. Kau

First published 1997 by M.E. Sharpe

Published 2015 by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Taiwans expanding role in the international arena / Maysing H. Yang, editor.
p. cm.
Papers presented at Taiwans Expanding Role in the International Arena, held at Taipei International Center, August 2021, 1993.
An East gate book.
Includes index.
ISBN 1-56324-968-5 (alk. paper).
ISBN 1-56324-992-8 (pbk: alk. paper)

1. TaiwanForeign relations1945 2. TaiwanInternational status. 3. TaiwanPolitics and government1988
I. Yang, Maysing H.

DS799.818.T37 1997
327.51249dc21 96-40275
CIP

ISBN 13: 9781563249921 (pbk)
ISBN 13: 9781563249686 (hbk)

Contents

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Michael Ying-Mao Kau

Maysing H. Yang, Director, Democratic Progressive Party

Lung-chu chen, Professor, New York Law School, United States

Lim Lo-tsui, Member of the Legislative Yuan, Taiwan

Hidenori Ijiri, Professor, University of Tsukuba, Japan

M.D. Fletcher, Professor, University of Queensland, Australia

Comments by Peter P. Chen
Professor, Wayne State University, United States

Barbara Krug, Professor, University of Saarland, Germany

Sonn Se-Il, Member of the National Assembly, Democratic Party, Republic of Korea

Comments by Wolf gang Sachsenrder
Director, East and Southeast Asia Department, Friedrich Naumann Institute, Germany

Cornelius Jaenen, Professor, University of Ottawa, Canada

Comments by Hung Lien-te
Visiting Professor, National Taiwan University

Peter Vale, Professor, University of Western Cape, South Africa

Comments by Parris H. Chang
Member of the Legislative Yuan, Taiwan

Ralph Clough, Professor, Johns Hopkins University, United States

Comments by Su Chi
Deputy Director, Institute of International Relations, Taipei

Alfred D. Wilhelm Jr., Vice President, Atlantic Council, United States

Comments by Tien Hung-Mao
Director, Institute for National Policy Research, Taiwan

Michael Yahuda, Reader, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

Comments by Byron S. Weng
Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Li Lu, J.D. Candidate, Columbia University School of Law, United States

Comments by Bih-Jaw Lin
Director, Institute for International Relations, Taiwan

Chaired by Maysing H. Yang, Director, Department of Foreign Affairs, Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan

Comments by:

Chaired by James Lilley, Former U.S. Ambassador to China

Comments by:

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A serious discrepancy has developed in recent decades between Taiwans economic and political developments, on the one hand, and its international status and participation, on the other. Economically, Taiwan has achieved the respected status of Newly Industrializing Country (NIC). As an economic powerhouse, the island now ranks no. 13 in world trade and no. 20 in GNP. It has accumulated close to U.S.$100 billion in foreign currency reserves, second only to Japan, and is rated as the seventh largest outbound investment country in the world.

Politically, Taiwan has achieved a dramatic transformation, moving from a quasi-Leninist authoritarian system to a full-fledged competitive democracy. The harsh political repression and rigid power monopoly of the old Kuomintang (KMT) elite has been replaced by dynamic electoral politics and rigorous party competition. The old power holders, transplanted to Taiwan by Chiang Kai-shek from mainland China in the late 1940s, have now yielded their political power to the younger generation of indigenous leaders from Taiwan. With the lifting of the so-called three controls (control of martial law, the ban on forming new political parties, and the restriction on the freedom of the press) in the late 1980s, and the overhauling of parliamentary representation and the direct popular election of the president in the 1990s, Taiwan has now emerged with pride and rigor as a full-fledged democracy.

Yet, since 1971, following its expulsion from the United Nations, Taiwans international status and diplomatic recognition have declined dramatically. In the 1970s, under pressure from the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), Taiwan was forced out of twenty-nine major intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), and fifty-one countries dropped their diplomatic recognition of the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan. By 1979, Taiwan was able to keep formal membership in only 10 IGOs and maintain formal diplomatic ties with only twenty-one countries. Taiwan had practically become a pariah state in the world arena.

Traditionally, under the authoritarian regime of Chiang Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo, Taiwans foreign policy and external relations were treated as an exclusive domain of the ruling elite and were kept out of the reach of political debate and popular scrutiny. The process of rapid economic development and political democratization since the mid-1980s, however, has ushered in a new era of close attention to and heated controversy over the issue of foreign policy.

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