1. Catherine Armitage, “China Warns ‘Malevolent’ Taiwan,” The Australian, March 28, 2005.
2. Harold C. Hinton, “China as an Asian Power,” in Chinese Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice, ed. Thomas W. Robinson and David Shambaugh (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), p. 349.
3. For views on the improvement of the relationship across the Taiwan strait prior to the 1995–1996 crisis, see, for example, Tse-kand Leng, The Taiwan-China Connection: Democracy and Development Across the Taiwan Strait (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996)
4. Ralph N. Clough, Reaching Across the Taiwan Strait: People-to-People Diplomacy (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993)
5. Jane Khanna, ed., Southern China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan: Evolution of a Sub-Regional Economy (Washington, DC: The Center for Strategic & International Studies, 1995)