Deconstructing the Taiwan questionBy Jerome KeatingThe People’s Republic of China (PRC) has no legitimate claim to Taiwan despite the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) constant harping on. The CCP used US of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan as a pretext to demonstrate that it could reach the nation with its missiles, as well as present its innocuous white paper on “the Taiwan question.”The Taiwan question has been around for a long time. The Taiwan question was on my mind when writing five books on Taiwan over the past two decades. What is important is that they know how to manipulate the “true believers” who are the proverbial frogs in a well. In any discussion on Taiwan with “true believers,” the Cairo and Potsdam declarations — 1943 and 1945 respectively — inevitably comes up.
