An Excursion into the Relationships between Taiwan and China

維持台海和平是大多數台灣人民的願望，然而能否和平卻取決於中國是否真正放棄以武力威脅或對抗台灣。大多數的國家因為中國在聯合國安全理事會的常任理事國地位，加上崛起的軍事武力，雖然不願承認中國對台灣主張的「一個中國政策」，但也不願提出挑戰。台灣不屬於中華人民共和國的領土是簡單清楚的事實，不管是『舊金山合約』或是日本與國民黨所簽訂的合約，都只聲明日本放棄對台灣的主權，但都未提及歸屬於何國。蔣介石政權佔領台灣，才讓台灣捲入國共的鬥爭中，也因為蔣介石堅持反攻大陸，才使得中國不斷以武力威嚇台灣。在聯合國的『人權宣言』保障下，台灣本應該有免於受到中國軍事攻擊或佔領的恐懼，然而國際法在大國的權力競逐下經常遭到漠視。如果國際上對於中國對台灣的威脅都視若無睹，中國必定肆無忌憚。反之如果國際社會加強關切，中國必定不敢輕舉妄動。加上台灣的民主改革得到主要國家如日本和美國的支持，都將迫使中國對台灣三思而後行。

關鍵字

一個中國政策；聯合國與台灣；中國對台威脅

並列摘要

Keeping the Taiwan Strait in peace is the shared desire of the Taiwanese. However, the situation in the Taiwan Strait is a time bomb, to be detonated by the belligerent China, which plots to seize the island nation, Taiwan. Although most nations of the world do not recognize the PRC's territorial claim to Taiwan, many are not willing to challenge the claim. That Taiwan is not a part of the PRC is evidently true. Both of the San Francisco Peace Treaty and the Peace Treaty between the ROC and Japan only required Japan to surrender Taiwan without specifying to which country Taiwan's sovereignty was to be turned over. Unfortunately, people in Taiwan were forced to pay the price of the conflicts between KMT and the PRC. Under the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UN should not allow the PRC to impose its nationality on the 23 million Taiwanese through coercion. If the world is apathetic to peace in the Taiwan Strait, the PRC will have a free hand to wage war against Taiwan. The consolidating liberal democracy in Taiwan and supports from the U.S. and Japan should help China to think twice before deciding to overrun Taiwan.

並列關鍵字

One China policy ； UN and Taiwan ； PRC's military aggressiveness

參考文獻

Ertai et.al compiled, under the order of the Emperor, Ta Ch'ing shih-chung Hien Hoang-ti Shih-lu (The Real Records of Emperor Shih-chung of the Great Ch'ing), Chang-chun: State Department of the Manchurian Empire, 1937, Vol. 10, p. 20.