China's Political Reform as the Key to US-China Relations
Many people believe that economic development will naturally lead to democratization in Otina. History, however, shows otherwise. Rising economic powers of Japan and Germany in the 1930s led them to fascism and war. The current U.S.-Otina-Taiwan relations resemble the U.S.-Japan-Otina relations before World War II in the sense that the rurrent Otinese regime eagerly wants be a full-fledged member of the international community and to build a closer relationship with the U.S. while threatening to overtake Taiwan by force. The U.S. should uphold its nonnegotiable principles and make it clear to the Otinese leaders that without initiating democratization, any cordial relationship is impossible. The real progress in Otina is not the change ofleaderships in the communist party; it is the much-needed constitutional reform.