China and Taiwan : cross-strait relations under Chen Shui-bian

Product Description

In Taiwan's 2000 presidential election, the Kuomintang (KMT) government was defeated, for the first time after fifty-five years in power, by the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Chen Shui-bian's election victory has significantly changed and further complicated the political and strategic scenarios across the Taiwan Strait.

This book is the first major study to investigate how this event developed, how it has affected cross-strait relations and how China will handle the new government in Taiwan.

The book provides a detailed reading of US military, economic and political involvement in the region and its strategy for Asia and China. It examines indications of strategic change under the Bush Administration and the possible impact of 11 September on US-China relations.

Review

“A convincing, detailed account of international power politics around a dispute that could be one of the least unlikely triggers of a global nuclear holocaust.” ―Journal of Peace Research

“This book is an important reference to the main moves in the international dispute on Taiwan.” ―Timo Kivimaki, Journal of Peace Research

About the Author

Sheng Lijun is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asia Studies, Singapore. He received his Master's degree from Australian National University (ANU) and his Ph.D. from the University of Queensland, Australia. His research focus has been on China's foreign relations, both when he was at the ANU, and the Australian Defence Force Academy, and since he joined ISEAS in 1995. He has written extensively on this subject, with articles published in the Washington Quarterly, the Journal of Strategic Studies, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Security Dialogue, Asian Perspective, the Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, Far Eastern Economic Review (The 5th Column), Contemporary Southeast Asia, Issues and Studies, Pacific Focus, and others. He is also the author of China's Dilemma: The Taiwan Issue (Singapore: ISEAS/London & New York: I.B. Tauris Academic Studies, 2001).