Taiwan-China: Are we digging for the hatchet?

Sometimes, I believe it to be an advantage for non-Chinese (whether they be from mainland China, Taiwan or an overseas Chinese community) or non-Taiwanese (whether they be from mainland China, Taiwan or an overseas Chinese community) when it comes to analyzing issues relating to China and Taiwan. Or in other words, if you have no blood ties to China or Taiwan, your unique perspective often transcends certain taboos, myths and commonly held beliefs. This is not to say that all ethnic Chinese have one belief system or that non-Chinese political analysts cannot understand the intricacies of the matter. Rather, it is my argument that a Chinese person who feels obligated once in a while to analyze the political situation between China and Taiwan find him or herself tied to a certain ethos, a combination of historic memories and accumulated life histories that have been transferred into a living consciousness of ultimately uncompromising polarity (UUP).

It is not my purpose to analyze the vagaries of Chinese nationalism (my manifesto on Chinese Nationalism will be posted at a future time) here, but instead, I want to offer a rubric or a set of general guiding principles for the amateur political analyst such as myself, to create a better understanding of why it seems like both sides always seem to be talking past each other.
Of course, these ideas are just some introductory thoughts, they will of course eventually need defining and empirical back up (this is what we call "theory", right?). But, I intend to throw these preliminary ideas (such as Chinese Territorial Reunification Discourse) in light of some recent issues that are likely to have an effect on cross-Strait politics.

These issues (in no particular order of importance):
-The recent pan-Blue "victory" in the legislative elections in Taiwan
-The debate over whether Taiwan should pass a US $18 billion dollar arms package
-China's desire to enact a "National Unification Law" that outlaws "secession" of parts of China from the motherland.

Tomorrow (or "next time"): The (re)unification naysayers...and the $18 billion dollar arms package.