CIA National Intelligence Estimates on the Cross-Strait and Sino-Russian Relations

... interdependence between China and Taiwan will bring the two entities closer together .” Unlike other de facto states such as Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Europe, which live on economic and military aid from Moscow because Georgia and the West do not ... ... its relations with Taiwan in order to bind a prosperous territory when the time comes (like Hong-Kong and Macao) and to user Soft Power and economic ties instead of Hard Power. That is why Beijing wants to put more pressure on the United States to reduce ...