Taiwan's China Dilemma: Contested Identities and Multiple Interests in Taiwan's Cross-Strait Economic Policy

China and Taiwan share one of the world's most complex international relationships. Although similar cultures and economic interests promoted an explosion of economic ties between them since the late 1980s, these ties have not led to an improved political relationship, let alone progress toward the unification that both governments once claimed to seek. In addition, Taiwan's recent Sunflower Movement succeeded in obstructing deeper economic ties with China. Why has Taiwan's policy toward China been so inconsistent? Taiwan's China Dilemma explains the divergence between the development of economic and political relations across the Taiwan Strait through the interplay of national identity and economic interests. Using primary sources, opinion surveys, and interviews with Taiwanese opinion leaders, Syaru Shirley Lin paints a vivid picture of one of the most unsettled and dangerous relationships in the contemporary world, and illustrates the growing backlash against economic liberalization and regional economic integration around the world.

Taiwan’s China Dilemma: Contested Identities and Multiple Interests in Taiwan’s Cross-Strait Economic Policy

Business & Money

Syaru Shirley Lin

Economics

Stanford University Press

Strategic Asia 2020: U.S.-China Competition for Global Influence offers a forward-looking assessment of how the rivalry between China and the United States is playing out around the globe. Each chapter examines how a country or region is coping with the consequences of Sino-U.S. competition and draws implications for U.S. policymakers.

Strategic Asia 2020: U.S.-China Competition for Global Influence

Ashley J. Tellis

Sheila A. Smith

Ji-Young Lee

Frédéric Grare

Chris Miller

Michael Wesley

Joseph Chinyong Liow

Carol Wise

Liselotte Odgaard

The National Bureau of Asian Research

Strategic Asia: Reshaping Economic Interdependence in the Indo-Pacific

William J. Norris

Kristin Vekasi

Yul Sohn

Hyo-young Lee

Gulshan Sachdeva

Vikram Nehru

Darren J. Lim

Benjamin Herscovitch

Victor A. Ferguson

National Bureau of Asian Research

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