Evolving Relations across the Taiwan Strait

Abstract

For the last few months, the relations across the Taiwan Strait seem to most of the countries in this region that the détente of the relation is just at the corner. According to the “1992 Consensus,” the principle on “finding commonalities despite differences” has been taken by political leaders on either side of the Taiwan Strait to create a win-win resolution. If the cross-strait relations gradually and smoothly progress, it is helpful to stabilize the regional stability and to promote the prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region. But, it is highly based on hypothesis to resolve the Taiwan Strait issues peacefully in a short time of period. To precisely read the cross-strait relations, the current development in the last few months is not good enough to interpret its implications. Then, the fundamental characteristics of the relation across the Taiwan Strait are needed to be profoundly studied in different perspectives based on different issues such as sovereignty, political systems, military and comprehensive security, economics, cultures, societies, and...etc. According to the principles of “finding commonalities despite differences,” the economic cooperation seems to be continued. The other key disputes across the Strait may cause interactive effects among themselves. If any incident caused by either internal or external factors happened across the Strait may trigger misunderstanding or miscalculation, the cross-strait relations are highly possible to be damaged. Therefore, it could be concluded that the currently comprehensively developing relation across the Taiwan Strait is fragile.