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• Liu Chuo-shui, "Prizes and Pitfalls Litter the Road Ahead for President Chen," Taipei Times, 27 March 2000. Lin Chuo-chui is a DPP member of the ROC Legislature Yuan (national legislature) in Taiwan.
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• See Maria Hsia Chang, "Political Succession in the Republic of China on Taiwan," Asian Survey, Vol. 24, No. 4, April 1984, p. 434. For more information on Chiang Ching-Kuo see The Generalissimo's Son: Chiang Ching-Kuo and the Revolutions in China and Taiwan by Jay Taylor (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000).
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• For an overview of cross-straits relations in the 1990s, see Robert D'A. Henderson, Continuing Tensions in the Taiwan Straits (Toronto: Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, Strategic Datalink series no. 85, January 2000).
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• For example, a major ROC spy ring was exposed in Beijing in September 1999; see John Pomfret, "Taiwanese Mistake Led to Three Spies' Execution," The Washington Post, 20 February 2000.
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• See C. Lester Walker, "China's Master Spy [Tai Li]," Harper's Magazine, Vol. 193, No. 1154, August 1946, pp. 162-169. Tai Li died in a mysterious airplane crash in May 1946.
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• For an assessment of the early KMT SIGINT and cryptography under General Chiang Kai-shek, see Maochun Yu, "Chinese Codebreakers, 1927-1945," Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring 1999, pp. 201-213.
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• Rigger has been a consultant on Asian affairs to the CIA, according to the Washington Times, 18 May 2001.
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• For an overview of China's continuing national security threat to Taiwan, see Robert D'A. Henderson, Will China use force against Taiwan? (Toronto: Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, Strategic Datalink series #86, February 2000), and Richard L. Russell, "What if ... China attacks Taiwan?" Parameters (Carlisle, PA, U.S. Army War College), Vol. 31, No. 3, Autumn 2001, pp. 76-91.
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• David L. Robbins, The End of War (New York: Bantam Books, 2000), pp. 35-37.
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• See also Loch K. Johnson, "The DCI vs. The Eight-Hundred-Pound Gorilla," International Journal of Intelligence and Counter lntelligence, Vol. 13, No. 1., Spring 2000, pp. 35-48.
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• Jonathan Shay, Achilles in Vietnam (New York: Atheneum, 1994). This study helps to explain what former POWs have suffered over the years after their release from captivity as they remember the horrible tortures suffered during their long and terrible confinements in Asian prison camps.
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• These examples support the thesis of Stephane Courtois, a careful French scholar, in his introductory essay "The Crimes of Communism," in Stephane Courtois, et al., The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), pp. 1-31. The volume emphasizes the criminal nature, despite their pious pronouncements, of Communist regimes worldwide, and the violations of human rights by those who control those systems, now as then.
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