ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to demonstrate that the factors collectively formed a process of interactive development that affected the lives of everyone within Greater China's overall context. In turn, the interaction among the national parties, the people, and cross-border relations also caused political changes which led to new types of potential political policies underlying the Chinese political economy. The chapter begins with the breaking up of the Wang-Koo Meeting in 1995 when the hope of reunification between China and Taiwan suddenly fell from its zenith, plummeting to rock bottom. It discusses the salient political changes under the previously elected President Lee Tung-hui and then the two-term second President Chen Shui-bian, and also focuses on the discourse concerning conflicts across the straits. The chapter finally concludes with some analysis of the dramatic political changes in early 2005.
