China Demolishes the Taiwan Consensus

March 11, 2015 Topic: Diplomacy

China Demolishes the Taiwan Consensus

Xi Jinping is trying to move the goalposts beyond the 1992 Consensus.

J. Michael Cole, a former analyst at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, is editor in chief of www.thinking-taiwan.com, a senior non-resident fellow at the China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham, and an Associate researcher at the French Center for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) in Taipei. He can be found on Twitter at @JMichaelCole1.

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