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The Taiwan Question in Xi Jinping’s Era: Beijing’s Evolving Taiwan Policy and Taiwan’s Internal and External Dynamics book cover

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The Taiwan Question in Xi Jinping’s Era Beijing’s Evolving Taiwan Policy and Taiwan’s Internal and External Dynamics

Edited By Suisheng Zhao Copyright 2025
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction: China’s Taiwan Policy Adjustments and the Driving Forces

Suisheng Zhao

Part I: Overview

1. Is Beijing’s Long Game on Taiwan About to End? Peaceful Unification, Brinkmanship, and Military Takeover

Suisheng Zhao

Part II: Chinese Support for Armed Unification in Xi Jinping’s New Era

2. Assessing Public Support for (Non-)Peaceful Unification with Taiwan: Evidence from a Nationwide Survey in China

Adam Y. Liu, Xiaojun Li 

3. Urban Chinese Support for Armed Unification with Taiwan: Social Status, National Pride and Understanding of Taiwan

Dongtao Qi, Suixin Zhang, Shengqiao Lin 

4. Selective Engagement: Mainland China’s Dual-Track Taiwan Policy

Xin Qiang

Part III: Taiwan’s Internal Dynamics and the Relations across the Strait

5. When Independence Meets Reality: Symbolic and Pragmatic Politics in Taiwan

Tse-min Lin, Chun-Ying Wu, Theodore Charm 

6. Butter or Guns: Taiwan’s Economic Policy Toward China

John Fuh-sheng Hsieh, Yi-Tzu Lin

7. Changing Attitudes toward China in Taiwan and Hong Kong in the Xi Jinping Era

Chih-Jou Jay Chen, Victor Zheng

Part IV: Taiwan’s Evolving External Relations

8. What Shapes Taiwan-related Legislation in U.S. Congress?

Gang Lin, Wenxing Zhou, Weixu Wu 

9. Korea-Taiwan “Unofficial” Relations after 30 Years (1992-2022): Reassessing Seoul’s “One China” Policy 

Adam P. Liff and Chaewon Lee

10. The Vatican and Taiwan: An Anomalous Diplomatic Relationship

Peter Moody

Biography

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.

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