Cross-Strait Relations Since 2016: The End of the Illusion

ISBN-13: 9780367428495 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 202 str.

J. Michael Cole

Opis

This book examines the situation in the Taiwan Strait since the election of Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party in the January 2016 general elections. Tracking the pragmatic approach taken by the Tsai administration, it positions the recent developments within a changing geopolitical context.

Spis treści

Part 1: The illusion is broken  1. The road to the "deep freeze"  2. The gloves come off: China’s punitive strategy  3. Trouble in the green camp  Part 2: The regional and global context  4. Taiwan and China’s greater ambitions: geopolitics and ideology  5. U.S.-Taiwan rapprochement  6. The future of the Japan-Taiwan partnership  7. Taiwan and the world: isolation vs. creative engagement  Part 3: The road ahead  8. Democracy under the DPP: a scorecard  9. Reinventing Taiwan for the 21st century  10. What’s next? 2019 and beyond

O autorze

J. Michael Cole is a Taipei-based senior non-resident fellow with the Global Taiwan Institute in Washington, D.C., the Macdonald-Laurier Institute in Ottawa, Canada, and the Taiwan Studies Programme at the University of Nottingham, UK.