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China Security Winter 2008: Taiwan Redux

20 February 2008

Featuring scholars and experts from China, Taiwan and the United States, the Winter 2008 issue of China Security turns its undivided attention to Taiwan. The island has drawn much scrutiny recently due to a number of key events, and this issue seeks to explore both the domestic and international dynamics of the situation in the Straits.

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China Security

Vol 4 No 1 Winter 2008

Taiwan Redux

In this issue of China Security we turn our undivided attention to Taiwan. A number of key events, notably the Legislative Yuan election, UN referendum and the presidential election have drawn immediate scrutiny to the island. And rightly so. Taiwan's oftentimes stormy democratic process is an interesting study in itself and several authors examine its domestic political and social dimensions. However, the "Taiwan problem," as it is often pejoratively called, is about more than just Taiwan or this 2008 election cycle. Both China and the United States are deeply invested in the island and its 23 million inhabitants for strategic, ideological and economic reasons. All three are closely intertwined through historical accident and political necessity. Thus, Taiwan has been at the epicenter of a perennial debate about China's future as a rising power, U.S. credibility as custodian of Taiwan's fledgling democracy and of possible conflict involving all three in the Taiwan Strait. This issue of China Security features authors from Taiwan, China and the United States to explore this trilateral dynamic and the impact Taiwan's elections on all of it.

Space Wars

In a final article, Brian Weeden takes up the debate over U.S. space military strategy, the vulnerability of its space assets and the consequences of a space war with China. This piece is a counterpoint to Geoffrey Forden's earlier article on the same topic.

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China Security is a policy journal that brings diverse Chinese perspectives to Washington on vital traditional and nontraditional security issues that impact China's strategic development and its relations with the United States.

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More Carrot Than Stick: Beijing's Emerging Taiwain Policy, by Lin Chong-pin

Peace Agreement: The Long Road Ahead, by Huang Jiashu

Wild Card: A Democratic Taiwan, by Ted Galen Carpenter

Peace or War: Taiwan at a Critical Juncture, by Peng Guangqian

Ensnared by Beijing: Washington Succumbs to the PRC's Diplomacy of Panic, by Alan Wachman

Whither Taiwan-China Relations?, by Arthur S. Ding

Time for "New Thinking" on Taiwan, by Wang Jianwei

Change: Mainland's Taiwan Policy, by Chu Shulong & Guo Yuli

How China Wins a Space War, by Brian Weeden

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