Gloria Jumamil-mercado

Philippine-taiwan Relations in a One China Policy: an Analysis of the Changing Relational Pattern Gloria Jumamil-mercado

This research assesses the changing relational pattern of the Philippine-Taiwan relations from 1947 to 2005 using the key theoretical factors of Realism, Neo-realism, Liberalism and Neo-liberalism to bring to the fore the strengths, opportunities, weaknesses, threats and triggers of the past relations within the two countries? domestic environment and the international system. It seeks to identify the implications of the ?One China Policy? to this changing relational pattern while keeping in perspective the ASEAN-centrist foreign policy framework of the Philippines and the country?s strong cognizance of the three dominant power players (United States, Japan and China) in global politics. Using the constructivism framework, the study then recommends a policy and program model that would reinvent the Philippine?Taiwan relations within the bounds of the One China Policy with the aim of promoting the national interests and security of both the Philippines and Taiwan.