Anti-secession bill reveals China's fears by Li YongYan

Asia Times Online - News from greater China; Hong Kong and Taiwan

The balance of power has shifted so much by now that the new leadership in Beijing is even indicating that under the one-China principle, everything is negotiable between the mainland and the island. But the fact remains that Taiwan talks and acts like a fully sovereign nation, whether the United Nations embraces it or not. Certainly it is self-governing.