The Taiwan Question in XI Jinping's Era

Beijing's Evolving Taiwan Policy and Taiwan's Internal and External Dynamics
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-86166-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

Taiwan is one of the flashpoints with the potential to spark a war in East Asia. With the rhetoric of striving for peaceful unification, Xi Jinping has made clear that the Taiwan question is China’s core national interest, making it essentially non-negotiable and important enough to go to war.

How has Beijing’s Taiwan policy evolved? What is the support for armed reunification among the Chinese people? And how have Taiwan's internal dynamics and external relations changed in response to Beijing’s evolving policy toward Taiwan? These are crucially important questions that this edited volume delves into and hopes to answer.

This book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese foreign policy, Taiwan studies and cross-Strait relations, Political Science, International Relations as well as Asian politics more generally. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Contemporary China and are accompanied by a new Introduction.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhao, Suisheng

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: China’s Taiwan Policy Adjustments and the Driving Forces  1. Is Beijing’s Long Game on Taiwan About to End? Peaceful Unification, Brinkmanship, and Military Takeover  2. Assessing Public Support for (Non-)Peaceful Unification with Taiwan: Evidence from a Nationwide Survey in China  3. Urban Chinese Support for Armed Unification with Taiwan: Social Status, National Pride and Understanding of Taiwan  4. Selective Engagement: Mainland China’s Dual-Track Taiwan Policy  5. When Independence Meets Reality: Symbolic and Pragmatic Politics in Taiwan  6. Butter or Guns: Taiwan’s Economic Policy Toward China  7. Changing Attitudes toward China in Taiwan and Hong Kong in the Xi Jinping Era  8. What Shapes Taiwan-related Legislation in U.S. Congress?  9. Korea-Taiwan “Unofficial” Relations after 30 Years (1992-2022): Reassessing Seoul’s “One China” Policy  10. The Vatican and Taiwan: An Anomalous Diplomatic Relationship

Über Autor(innen)

Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. He is the Founder and Editor of the Journal of Contemporary China and the author and editor of more than two dozen books and hundreds of academic articles.