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Removing the Taiwan Stone from Asia’s Great “Go” Game: Thoughts on Taiwan’s Geographic and Demographic Role in Asia-Pacific Security

In: National Identity and Economic Interest

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  • John J. Tkacik

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Seen from high altitudes, Pratas Reef is an almost perfectly circular and strikingly large landmark some 15 miles across. Known as “Dongsha” or “East Sand”) in Chinese, the reef is a glass-green roundel in a vast sapphire sea, suggestive of a clamshell “stone” in some cosmic version of “Go,” the ancient Japanese game of strategy. It is so large that it takes 90 seconds for a jetliner to pass over at 550 miles per hour, it is prominent in the northern expanses of the South China Sea where it straddles shipping lanes north-south through the Taiwan Strait and eastward from Hong Kong out to the Western Pacific. Hugging the reef’s rim is Pratas island, a pretty place, a 1.7 mile-long emerald sliver fringed with snow white beaches, scattered coconut palms, and turquoise lagoons that, in another universe, could be an exotic vacation getaway.

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  • John J. Tkacik, 2012. "Removing the Taiwan Stone from Asia’s Great “Go” Game: Thoughts on Taiwan’s Geographic and Demographic Role in Asia-Pacific Security," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Peter C. Y. Chow (ed.), National Identity and Economic Interest, chapter 0, pages 247-281, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-01105-3_11
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137011053_11
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