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100	1		_aCHAEWON Lee
700			_aLIFF Adam P.
245			_aReassessing Seoul's "one China" policy: _bSouth Korea-Taiwan "unofficial" relations after 30 years (1992-2022)/ _cChaewon Lee and Adam P. Liff
260			_c2023
520			_aAmid U.S.-led efforts to "internationalize and multilateralize" support for Taiwan in response to mounting pressure from China, the 2021 U.S.-South Korea presidential statement's unprecedented reference to "peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait" made global headlines. This study analyzes contemporary Korea-Taiwan relations in historic and comparative perspective, focusing especially on Seoul's official 1992 position on "One China" and its implications for Korea's Taiwan policy. It demonstrates that Seoul has never recognized Beijing's self-defined "One China principle" concerning its essential claim of PRC sovereignty over Taiwan. Comparative analysis of Korea's position and subsequent policies with the U.S.', Japan's, and others' further reveals significant (potential) flexibility in Korea's approach to Taiwan. The relatively distant state of Korea-Taiwan relations today is the collective political choice of Korea's democratically-elected leaders-not the legacy of some (non-existent) putative commitment made to Beijing 30 years ago.
650			_aSEOUL
650			_aTAIWAN
773			_aJournal of Contemporary China: _gVol 32 No 143, September 2023, pp745-764
598			_aKOREA,TAIWAN
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10670564.2022.2113959 _zClick here for full text
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