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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.