Just a Phone Call: Shaking up US-China Relations
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Taiwan and the One China Policy
Taiwan is the most sensitive issue in US-China relations. Beijing sees this island of 23 million people as its province unfairly snatched from it by a bullying Japan in 1895 and then separated at the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949. As part of efforts to establish formal diplomatic ties with Beijing in 1979, Washington agreed to abide by the so-called One China policy. Taiwan today becomes the first Chinese society ever to select a president by direct election. It is this vote that has prompted China to conduct intimidating war games nearby and led the United States to send the seventh fleet into the area.
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