ABSTRACT
It has taken many years for scholars to make an effort to apply game theory to the analyses of international relations. However, the application of the theory to the interaction between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) is still rare. The purpose of this paper is therefore to deal with the following issues: Has the pattern of interaction between Beijing and Taipei changed over the past forty years? What is the evolving process toward a complicated cooperation between the two sides? What are the contexts of hostility and cooperation under different patterns of interaction? Is the existing cooperation between Beijing and Taipei stable? If not, what is the security dilemma? How could the PRC and the ROC maintain a cooperative relationship under the existing framework of interaction in terms of a two-person conflict?
