That proposal, notes Huan, a Visiting Fellow from China at the US. Atlantic Council, would allow the KMT in Taipei to "maintain its social and economic system, its armed forces, and its unofficial ties with for- eign countries." In return, Taipei must surrender its claim to represent all of China and agree to become a "special administrative region." Since signing a similar agreement in 1984 with Britain on Hong Kong's future, Deng has been eager to try this arrangement with...