http://chinaopinion.com All (Political) Opinions about China Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:11:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Why does the fire stay a simple diameter? http://chinaopinion.com/2009/12/why-does-the-fire-stay-a-simple-diameter/ Given the plural nature of Indian society, diverse images of China are present in the average Indian mind. These images tend to vary from one extreme to the other. For instance, there is a view that China, having made remarkable and unprecedented economic progress, will become more muscular and assertive in ... http://chinaopinion.com/2009/10/sino-indian-relations-in-the-new-millennium-challenges-and-prospects/ While conditions on Taiwan were deteriorating for the Nationalists, a dire situation was emerging on the mainland. There had been periodic skirmishes between the Nationalist government and the Chinese Communist Party for roughly twenty years, but the government was always in a position of strength. The CCP had been making ... http://chinaopinion.com/2009/08/the-ccp-takes-over-mainland-china/ As the tide was turning against the Axis powers in World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss the status of Japan’s colonies. The Cairo Declaration of December 1943 determined that all of the territories Japan had taken ... http://chinaopinion.com/2009/08/the-end-of-world-war-ii-and-the-return-of-taiwan-to-china/ After the staggering defeat suffered in the Sino-Japanese War, it became increasingly difficult to deny the need for modernization and political transformation in China. Between the end of the war and China’s retaking of Taiwan in 1945, there were three periods of fundamental reform in China. Although they were ideologically ... http://chinaopinion.com/2009/08/the-development-of-a-modern-state-in-china/ Although the Chinese government had had reluctantly agreed to transfer the island to Japan, people living on Taiwan had their own agenda. On May 23, Taiwan declared itself a republic and set up an independent government. With that government came an army and a mobilization to resist occupation by the ... http://chinaopinion.com/2009/08/japan%e2%80%99s-occupation-of-taiwan-1895-1945/ The early diplomatic efforts to end the war consisted of numerous unrealistic Chinese proposals and staunch Japanese refusals.14 During the negotiations the war ground on, and the Chinese were continuing to lose large numbers of forces (indeed, Weihaiwei was taken after the Chinese had started its attempts at diplomacy). Japanese ... http://chinaopinion.com/2009/08/the-end-of-the-war-and-the-treaty-of-shimonoseki/ During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Taiwan experienced both colonization by Western powers and occupation and governance by the Ming and Qing dynasties.1 The Penghu Islands, a small island group off the west coast of Taiwan now considered part of Taiwan, were considered part of China as far back as ... http://chinaopinion.com/2009/08/the-origins-of-the-taiwan-problem-1895-1979/ dThe war that erupted between the United States and China in 2013 was a classic case of miscalculation by both parties. Neither Beijing nor Washington thought that the other side would escalate the long-standing tensions over Taiwan to the point of armed conflict. Yet armed conflict was the result, and ... http://chinaopinion.com/2009/08/2013-how-the-war-began/ THE DANGER OF A COLLISION COURSE On the surface, America’s relations with China seem to be rather cordial. Tensions spiked in April 2001 over the incident in which a U.S. spy plane collided with a Chinese fighter plane, but that quarrel soon receded, and ever since the September 11 terrorist attacks ... http://chinaopinion.com/2009/08/americas-coming-war-with-china-a-collision-course-over-taiwan-introduction/