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Why Taiwan?
Geostrategic Rationales for China's Territorial Integrity
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Artikel-Nr:
9780804755542
Veröffentl:
2007
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.08.2007
Seiten:
272
Autor:
Alan M Wachman
Gewicht:
376 g
Format:
226x158x15 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Alan M. Wachman is Associate Professor of International Politics at Tufts University. He is the author of Taiwan: National Identity and Democratization (1994), as well as chapters in multiauthored texts and journal articles pertaining to Sino-U.S. Relations, Taiwan, and cross-Strait relations.
Why has the PRC been so determined that Taiwan be part of China? Why, since the 1990s, has Beijing been feverishly developing means to prevail in combat with the U.S. over Taiwan's status? Why is Taiwan worth fighting for? To answer, this book focuses on the territorial dimension of the Taiwan issue and highlights arguments made by PRC analysts about the geostrategic significance of Taiwan, rather than emphasizing the political dispute between Beijing and Taipei. It considers Beijing's quest for Taiwan since 1949 against the backdrop of recurring Chinese anxieties about the island's status since the seventeenth century>