This report examines Taiwan’s national security decisionmaking structure and process and the primary factors guiding its defense strategy, force structure, and military procurement decisions. It…
Country or Region: Taiwan
Summary Indigenous weakness and eroded U.S. support give Taiwan little choice other than continued accommodation of overwhelming and ever-increasing Chinese leverage. Cross-strait relations continue to…
Summary The role of Russia in cross-Taiwan Strait relations has been downplayed, if not ignored. This article attempts a systematic study by reviewing Russia’s Taiwan…
Despite the significance of the Taiwan issue to US-China relations as well as regional stability in the Asia-Pacific, one could hardly find a comprehensive and…
Summary Successful deterrence requires both threats and assurances about the conditionality of those threats. The real security dilemma is how to be tough enough without…
This is the first explanation and evaluation of Taiwan’s defence forces and infrastructure. It examines not only Taiwan’s armed forces, but also its Ministry of National…
Summary As Taiwan heads into dual national elections—a legislative election scheduled for January 12, 2008, and a presidential election scheduled for March 22, 2008—tensions across…
Summary This paper analyzes the development of Taiwan’s security policy by exploring the decision-making of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government under the leadership of…
Why did the Truman administration reject a pragmatic approach to the Taiwan Strait conflict recognizing Beijing and severing ties with Taipei and instead choose the…
The relationship between the United States and China is one of the most important issues in the twenty-first century, and is, ultimately, hostage to conditions…
Summary The majority of Taiwan residents now have Taiwan-centered national identities, viewing the island as separate and independent from the Chinese mainland. Thus, few people…
If Taiwan is not a sovereign state, what is it? On an island about the size of the state of West Virginia, Taiwan’s people have…
For China, Taiwan is next in line to be unified with the People’s Republic after Hong Kong in 1997. China’s claim on Taiwan is of…
The future of the Taiwan Strait is more wide open that at any other time in recent decades. Tensions between China and Taiwan have eased…
Summary Since at least the early 1950s, the entire Asia-Pacific region has struggled with the complicated and complex relationship between China and Taiwan–today the Taiwan…
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