Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 05/2009

Options for a Democratic Taiwan

Kerry Brown

March 2009

Chatham House

Abstract

Over the last two decades, as Mainland China has been developing and liberalizing its economy, Taiwan has been undergoing an equally remarkable but very different political transformation, from martial law in 1987 to its current status as one of the most vibrant, stable democracies in Asia.