ABSTRACT
The fight between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) over international space is a remnant of the Cold War. The ferocity is unabated even though the economic relations between these two former arch rivals and the overall environment in East Asia have been dramatically reshaped since the 1990s, as discussed in chapter 2. Huge transactions of commercial goods and capital have made the Strait of Taiwan one of the busiest waterways in the world. Despite economic interdependence, the two are still locked in deadly diplomatic wrangling.
