From Economist.com:
Taiwan may rejoin China peacefully within 20 years
To the untutored ear, the verbal salvoes lobbed across the Taiwan Strait since the weekend might appear to carry with them an alarming rise in tensions over nearly the last bit of unfinished history left over from the cold war: Taiwan’s long separation from mainland China.
They began over dinner on Sunday night, when Taiwan’s president, Chen Shui-bian, declared before a gathering of independence-minded Taiwanese that Taiwan was a country whose sovereignty was none of China’s business. Taiwan, in short, “should be independent.” [Full Text]
