1st Edition

Taiwan and Post-Communist Europe Shopping for Allies

By Czeslaw Tubilewicz Copyright 2007
256 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Taiwan and Post-Communist Europe examines Taiwan’s economic diplomacy towards post-communist states in Central and Eastern Europe. The media, and occasionally academia, have often suggested that Taipei resorts to costly aid, trade and investment diplomacy to facilitate its foreign relations, whilst China engages in equally costly counter-economic diplomacy to keep Taiwan isolated. Czeslaw... Read more

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Biography

Czeslaw Tubilewicz is the Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong, the former co-programme leader of China Studies at the Open University of Hong Kong, and editor of Critical Issues in Contemporary China (Routledge, 2006).

'...the books research is thorough and well documented, its analysis vigorous and its arguments basically sound. Its case studies contain interesting details which make good reading. This book is useful for understanding Taiwan's diplomatic predicament sine the early 1970s' - C.L.Chiou, The China Journal, January 2008