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If China Attacks Taiwan Military Strategy, Politics and Economics

Edited By Steve Tsang Copyright 2006

234 Pages

by Routledge

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This is a new analysis of the key issues facing Chinese policy makers in their approach towards Taiwan. This is one of the most tense and potentially explosive relationships in world politics. This book explains succinctly the impetus, the methods and the consequences if China is to use force, a prospect that has become greater following the return of President Chen Shui-bian to power in... Read more

Table of Contents

Preface & Acknowledgements

Notes on the Contributors

1 Drivers behind the use of force, Steve Tsang

Part I: Policy Framework

2 Political and military factors determining China’s use of force, Maochun Yu

3 The US policy of dual deterrence, Richard Bush

Part II: China’s Capacity to Use Force

4 Short-range ballistic missile capabilities, Jonathan D. Pollack

5 Unconventional warfare options, Richard D. Fisher

6 Controlling the airspace over the Taiwan Strait, Kenneth Allen & Jeffrey Allen

7 Command of the sea, Bernard D. Cole

8 Amphibious capabilities, Bernard D. Cole & Valerie Niquet

9 Industrial, technological, economic and infrastructure capacity, Tai-ming Cheung

Part III: The Cost of a War to China

10 Diplomatic consequences, Yong Deng

11 Economic and political costs, Jing Huang

Editor(s)

Biography

Steve Tsang

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