Taiwan became the primary stronghold of the Republic of China following the Communist party's rise in mainland China in 1949. RAND has analyzed shifts in U.S. diplomatic and military policy toward Taiwan and the People's Republic of China (PRC) over the decades and, in recent years, has examined Taiwan's rapid economic development, gradual political liberalization, and efforts to achieve independence from the PRC.
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Key economic and military trends in China, Taiwan, the United States, Japan, Korea, and India will likely indicate the future of Asia's security environment.
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Powerful domestic changes have driven Taiwanese leaders to walk a narrow and perilous path between confrontation and conciliation with China.
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Examines the development experiences of South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong to derive lessons that may aid in designing development strategies relevant to Hainan's policy decisions.
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This Note presents estimates of certain key economic and military trends for the period 1950-2010 for 15 countries (the United States, the Soviet Union, Japan, China, West Germany, the United Kingdom, France, India, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, Egypt...
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Adapted from contributions to the Britannica Book of the Year--1989, this essay presents overviews of the political, social, and economic climates in China and Taiwan in 1988. The reform programs of the Chinese leadership encountered major problems a...
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This paper is adapted from essays written for the Britannica Book of the Year-1988. In it, the author reviews key political, economic, and foreign policy developments in China and Taiwan during 1987.
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This paper is adapted from essays written for the Britannica Book of the Year--1987. In it, the author reviews key political, economic, and foreign policy developments in China and Taiwan during 1986. In the case of China, he notes that continuing de...
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This paper is adapted from essays written for the Britannica Book of the Year--1985. In it, the author reviews key political, economic, and foreign policy developments in China and Taiwan during 1984. In the case of China, he notes its effort to incr...
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This paper is adapted from essays written for the Britannica Book of the Year--1986. In it, the author reviews key political, economic, and foreign policy developments in China and Taiwan during 1985. In the case of China, he notes its continued purs...
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Assesses how people in Taiwan have reacted to their evolving circumstances in recent years - specifically, to derecognition by the United States and the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China ...
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This paper is adapted from essays that will appear in the Britannica Book of the Year--1984. It discusses domestic affairs, economic affairs, and foreign affairs in China during 1983 and political and economic affairs on the island of Taiwan during 1...
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The Reagan Administration on January 11, 1982, announced its decision to deny the Nationalist Government of China's request for aircraft superior to the F-5E Tiger. Instead, the United States granted permission to the Northrop Corporation to extend ...
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Addresses the issue of the remarkable record of a small number of less-developed countries (the so-called Newly Industrialized Countries--especially Korea, Brazil, Taiwan, and Singapore) in realizing sustained economic development in the past decade....
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Assesses the probabilities that Japan, Taiwan or South Korea might develop nuclear weapons, and what the consequences of proliferation might be for the People's Republic of China (PRC). The possibility that any of these states might embark on a nucle...
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As of 1978, leaders in Washington and Peking face the choice of either moving toward future cooperation and defusing the dispute over Taiwan by political means, or through inaction dissipating the policy of normalizing relations which was initiated i...
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A December 1973 Columbia University seminar paper, reissued without revision, describing the deliberately ambiguous de facto independence of Taiwan.
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An examination of the political framework within which foreign businessmen must operate on Taiwan. Divided into three parts, the paper discusses: (1) Relevant aspects of Chinese political heritage and its importance in understanding the role of gov...
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This paper reviews several methods of evaluating family planning programs and comments on the strengths and shortcomings of each. Evidence from Taiwan is summarized that indicates how different methods of evaluation can yield different implications ...
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An evaluation of methods used to infer how activities of a family-planning program influence birth rates. Using data from Taiwan, two models, a simultaneous-equations model and an age-aggregated linear-recursive model, are estimated by means of vari...
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Based on multiple regression models of reproductive behavior, direct assessment of the impact of the Taiwan family planning program on birth rates is shown to imply different conclusions for policy than those implied by earlier studies focusing on th...
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