台海兩岸關係發展之軌跡

The Locus of Relations across the Taiwan Straits

With the advent of the post-Cold War era, chancesfor war have been greatly diminished in most regions inthe world. Nevertheless, Northeast Asia has not been ableto free from military confrontation shaped in the Cold Warand crisis continues unabated. If we compare inter-Koreanrelations with cross-Straits relations in the post-Cold Warperiod, interesting pendulum phenomena can be found inthe two sets of dyadic relations. While inter-Korea relationswere tense due to the first North Korean nuclear crisis inthe early 1990s, Taiwan and China were engaged