Editing Chinese unification (section)

==== Rise of the Democratic Progressive Party ====
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After the [[2000 Taiwanese presidential election]], which brought the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party's candidate President [[Chen Shui-bian]] to power, the Kuomintang, faced with defections to the People First Party, expelled Lee Teng-hui and his supporters and reoriented the party towards unification. At the same time, the People's Republic of China shifted its efforts at unification away from military threats (which it de-emphasized but did not renounce) towards economic incentives designed to encourage Taiwanese businesses to invest in mainland China and aiming to create a pro-Beijing bloc within the Taiwanese electorate.

Within Taiwan, unification supporters tend to see "China" as a larger cultural entity divided by the Chinese Civil War into separate states or governments within the country. In addition, supporters see Taiwanese identity as one piece of a broader Chinese identity rather than as a separate cultural identity. However, supporters do oppose [[desinicization]] inherent in Communist ideology such as that seen during the [[Cultural Revolution]], along with the effort to emphasize a Taiwanese identity as separate from a Chinese one. As of the 2008 election of President [[Ma Ying-jeou]], the KMT agreed to the One China principle, but defined it as led by the Republic of China rather than the People's Republic of China.