BEIJING, CHINA - DECEMBER 29: Chinese man joins a Chinese national map and a world map (L) together on December 29, 2004 in Beijing, China. China's military will crush any major moves toward independence by Taiwan, a Beijing government policy paper said prompting the self-governing island to accuse Beijing of escalating tensions. Taiwan split from the mainland at the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949, but Beijing still sees the democratic island of 23 million as a part of Chinese territory and has pledged to bring it back into the fold, by force if necessa. (Photo by Guang Niu/Getty Images)