Separatists were active in the 70s, but by the 1990s, the situation seemed to have calmed, until the government began to decisively crack down on acts of low-level resistance.
Historically, he said, stock valuations rose when the government resolved a problem decisively; they remained low during longer crises, like the Arab oil embargo of 1973-74.
If Beijing decided force was needed, the aim would be to use long-range weapons to shock Taiwan into submission and win decisively at a low cost.
That means Japan should decisively abandon ultra-low interest rates, albeit gradually so as to allow an orderly unwinding of speculative positions.
"Since 1990," he said, "America has pursued a strategy that would allow us to fight two wars simultaneously, and win both decisively, with the lowest possible risk to our troops.
A Guardian/ICM poll shows neither main party has broken through decisively, with Conservative support as low as at any point in the past two years.
There were more crescendos from Low, a decisively stylized band from Duluth, Minn.
He got one chance, when City's 23-year-old goalie Joe Hart failed to clear a low shot decisively.
With the Remain campaign regaining some ground ahead of this week's referendum on whether the UK stays in the European Union, leading shares and sterling have bounced decisively back from recent lows.
In the old days, when I was a kid, management moved swiftly and decisively to cut mostly low-level and support jobs in its periodic effort to cut costs.
