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- Title
POLITICAL LIBERALIZATION IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: ITS LINKAGE TO THE MAINLAND-TAIWAN REUNIFICATION.
- Authors
Wing-Hung Lo, Carlos
- Abstract
This article examines the impact of China's liberal political reforms on its reunification with Taiwan from the perspective of linkage theory. Through the liberalization of domestic politics, the post-Mao leadership has effected a fundamental change of regime type, transforming the Maoist totalitarian state to an established single-party regime. Because of this change, the Chinese Communists have increasingly considered China more as a developing country than a Marxist regime that needs a favorable regional and international environment for implementing its modernization programs. This has led to the emergence of a secular and stable China. The liberal tendencies in internal politics have produced four domestic-international linkages favoring China in the settlement of the Taiwan issues. Despite the presence of some negative linkages against China, it seems that the post-Deng leadership can take charge of the reunification issues as long as they can continue to make progress in institutionalizing its political system and in liberalizing its monolithic institutions.
- Subjects
CHINESE politics &; government, 1949-; CHINESE reunification question, 1949-; TAIWANESE politics &; government, 1945-
- Publication
East Asia: An International Quarterly, 1999, Vol 17, Issue 4, p78
- ISSN
1096-6838
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12140-999-0018-8