The policy of promoting "cross-strait reconciliation" adopted by President Ma Ying-jeou and his rightist Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) administration has not led to any lessening of China's military threat to Taiwan.
In an annual report on "Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China" released Aug. 17, the U.S. Department of defense shattered the myth peddled by the Ma administration that its policies of appeasement will bring genuine peace and security in the Taiwan Strait.