Via the BBC:
This wasn't unexpected after Ma Ying-jeou won the last round of elections on Taiwan, but it made me sit back and think how much China has changed in its outlook to the world in the five years since I lived there. One of the things that I was most taken aback by was the fervour with which my students of international politics felt that China and Taiwan should be reunified. Even with my MA in International Relations, I wasn't prepared for the individual feeling, which seemed like far more than just the party line.
Now, I'm no East Asia area specialist, and this isn't an IR blog, so no ramification pontification here. Just, I think, a bit of a lightening in transfer loads at Narita and Chek Lap Kok.
