Panel: Beijing Keeps Increasing Pressure on Taiwan to Join Mainland

A previous version of this post was published with the incorrect author credit. Beijing has ramped up diplomatic, economic and military pressure on Taipei to accept its “One China” point of view and it is driving the United States to better define what that means in Washington, experts on cross-straits relations said Thursday. Speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, D.C., think tank, Zhao Suisheng, a professor at the University of Denver, said in answer to a question that while peaceful unification still is official policy and mainstream thinking among the Chinese leadership and public, President … Continue reading Panel: Beijing Keeps Increasing Pressure on Taiwan to Join Mainland