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View Resource A Tale of Two Chinas

On Monday, Taiwan's Defense Minister Tang Fei announced Taiwanese plans to build a Missile Shield to combat any missile attack initiated by the People's Republic of China (PRC). This is the latest in a series of statements and events that show the relationship between Taiwan and mainland China rapidly deteriorating in the last two months; the state of hostility is equivalent to that of March 1996...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/ss/1999/0824
View Resource Chinese Government Bans Falun Gong

In the toughest domestic security measure since 1989, the Chinese Government officially banned the quasi-religious Falun Gong sect yesterday. The announcement was accompanied by a wave of arrests and a massive propaganda offensive against the sect's charismatic founder, Li Hongzhi, who was accused of sinister and disruptive motives. The centerpiece of the case against Li Hongzhi came in a special...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/1999/0723
View Resource Taiwan Takes Another Step Towards Independence?

On Saturday, the Republic of China elected Chen Shui-bian (pronounced chen shway-bien) as president. The leader of the opposition's Democratic Progressive Party, Chen had called for Taiwan's independence from China, which had responded to such rhetoric with threats of invasion were Chen to be elected. Thus far, no invasion is imminent, but an olive branch from Chen in the form of a request for...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/ss/2000/0321