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This article investigates the cumulative effect of ‘One China’ policies of foreign states on the international status of Taiwan. It argues that these policies have come to constitute a global diplomatic framework marginalizing Taiwan legally, institution- ally, and politically, turning it into a de facto state with only limited international rights. Still, adhering to the notion of ‘One China’ is Taiwan’s most viable option for maintaining its de facto independence. Any unilateral attempt to alter Taiwan’s interna- tional status can be expected to result in Taiwan facing main- land China alone. This is not simply because of the latter’s power and geopolitical weight: International society has been oppos- ing unilateral changes of statehood for more than 60 years. Since at the root of cross-strait antagonisms is the lack of an agreed-upon ‘One China’ framework, the most favorable path forward for Taiwan is a comprehensive long-term bargain with mainland China that would expressly define and stabilize it. The framework should be grounded in the shared feature of the constitutional status quo on both sides of the strait – that there is, legally, one Chinese state.
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194041
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Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognise that climate change and biodiversity loss are one indivisible crisis and must be tackled together to preserve health and avoid catastrophe. This overall environmental crisis is now so severe as to be a global health emergency.
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194042
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In the first decades of the twentieth century, a vast network of transnational organizations operated as spaces of collaboration and informal diplomacy that brought together private and public actors across the Canadian-American border in the common pursuit of the protection, propagation, and protection of fisheries in their contiguous waters. At their meetings, the members of this constellation of groups strategized, shared the latest scientific research, and passed resolutions promoting their preferred solutions to the problems plaguing the Canadian-American fisheries. While the process of environmental conservation was anything but expedient – legislation and treaties could be blocked by political and economic concerns, and the ambiguity of shared natural resources complicated the process from its inception – the cumulative efforts of these organizations at the local, state, and provincial level paid dividends at the international level. By the end of the 1920s, the United States and Canada had engaged in a number of bilateral treaties which relied heavily on prominent members of these organizations and the knowledge accumulated over decades of meetings and networking.
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