The narrowing of international space in turn sparked the rise of "nativist ideology" in Taiwan--nascent Taiwanese nationalism. Now that Taiwan is free, democratic, and prosperous, the old policy of refusing to coexist in the international community with mainland China has been abandoned, and the government hopes to create a "win-win" situation. But mainland China still has the mindset from the civil war half a century ago.
國際地位的矮化，激起本土意識的凝聚；而當自由、民主、富裕的台灣早已從「漢賊不兩立」的內戰桎梏中掙脫，希望創造「雙贏」時，中共卻還固守著五十年前的內戰心態，執意將台灣當做「叛離的一省」，緊咬著台灣不放。