1st Edition

Dangerous Decade Taiwan’s Security and Crisis Management

By Brendan Taylor Copyright 2020
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

Taiwan’s position looks increasingly precarious, and tensions threaten to grow into a major strategic crisis. Chinese President Xi Jinping has made reunification with Taiwan a central pillar of his vision for China, and has ramped up diplomatic and economic pressure on Taiwan. Its inhabitants are increasingly estranged from the mainland, and Tsai Ing-wen’s administration refuses to conduct... Read more

Introduction

1. A Shifting Status Quo

2. A Complex Balance of Power

3. Tipping Points

4. Policy Options

Biography

Brendan Taylor is Professor of Strategic Studies at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University. He has published widely on security architecture in the Asia-Pacific, and is the author of The Four Flashpoints: How Asia Goes to War (La Trobe University Press).