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2014 Md. Ser. Contemp. Asian Stud. 1 (2014)

handle is hein.intyb/marscas2014 and id is 1 raw text is: THE MUTUAL NON-DENIAL PRINCIPLE, CHINA'S
INTERESTS, AND TAIWAN'S EXPANSION OF
INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION
Wei-chin LEE*
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION          ...................................     2
II. THE FEELING IS MUTUAL: INTERNATIONAL
INSTITUTIONS AND ASPIRING              ..................     4
III. THE FUNCTIONALITY OF THE MUTUAL NON-
DENIAL PRINCIPLE IN CROSS-STRAIT
RELA   TIONS   .........................................    11
IV. TRUCE ON THE FRONT OF DIPLOMATIC
RECOGNITION         .....................................   19
V. STATUS OF TAIWAN'S PARTICIPATION IN
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ................                 22
A. IGOs for Taiwan's International Functionality
and  Sustainability  .................................  29
B. Get in First and See What to Do Next:
Pragmatism in Membership Application ..........         31
C. What's in a Name? The Sematic Game of
Taiwan's Nomenclatures ..........................       32
D. Softening the Narrative Appeal ...................       33
VI. WHY IS IT IN CHINA'S INTEREST TO
PROMOTE TAIWAN'S INTERNATIONAL
PARTICIPATION? ...................................          36
A. China's Sovereignty Assertion and Taiwan's
Identity  Shift ......................................  37
B. Identity as a Salient Issue in Taiwan's Domestic
Politics and Foreign Policy ........................    40
C. The Utility of Naming for Social Reconstruction .        43
* Wei-chin Lee, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Box 7568, Wake
Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA. E-mail: <leewei@wfu.eN>. An
earlier version of this study was presented at the Twentieth Annual Taiwan Studies
Conference, Taiwan: National and Regional Security, Center for Asian Studies, Uni-
versity of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, September 7-9, 2012. The author would like
to thank Dr. Robert Henry Cox, Dr. W. Dean Kinzley, Dr. Thomas Bellows, anony-
mous reviewers, and Ms. Chih-Yu T. Wu, Executive Editor of MSCAS, for their assis-
tance, comments, and suggestions throughout the process. The research of this study
has been partially funded by the Archie Grant, Wake Forest University 2013.

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