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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Since May 2008, relations across the Taiwan Strait have experienced a Historical turning point. The two sides of the strait have tided over a "high-risk" period and embarked upon a path of peaceful development and benign interaction. When the Obama administration came to power in January 2009, the new situation in cross-straits relations had already taken hold. By then, the US. was busy coping with a series of challenges both at home and abroad, including tackling the ?nancial crisis and seeking to end the two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. So, it can be said that the Taiwan issue was neither a priority in Obama's foreign strategy, and that he did not expend as much energy on it as his predecessor.
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