Qi provides a comprehensive exploration of the complex and evolving dynamics in and between Taiwan, China, and the United States from 2016 to 2024.
Through three unique analytical perspectives, these chapters delve into 23 significant political, economic, and social developments that have shaped the Taiwan issue.
Qi provides a comprehensive exploration of the complex and evolving dynamics in and between Taiwan, China, and the United States from 2016 to 2024.
Through three unique analytical perspectives—Movement Government and Movement Society, Cross-Strait Relations Trio, and Strategic Ambiguity—these chapters delve into 23 significant political, economic, and social developments that have shaped the Taiwan issue. It provides a broad spectrum of political, economic, and social developments, extending beyond the first term of Tsai Ing-wen's administration and provides valuable frameworks that extend beyond the Taiwan context, applicable to state-society relations in other countries and other geopolitical conflicts.
An essential resource for scholars, students, and policymakers in comparative politics, international relations, and political sociology, as well as anyone seeking to understand East Asian geopolitics and the evolving Taiwan-China-U.S. relationship.
Introduction: Three Perspectives on Taiwans Politics, Chinas Taiwan
Policy, and USChinaTaiwan Relations PART I TAIWANS MOVEMENT GOVERNMENT AND
MOVEMENT SOCIETY SINCE 2016 CHAPTER 1 The 2016 Electoral Earthquake: Economic
Discontent, Youth Resistance, and Taiwans Political Realignment CHAPTER 2
Between Domestic Support and Beijings Suspicion: Tsais Opening Signals in
Cross-Strait Relations CHAPTER 3 Navigating the Middle Line: The Tsai
Administrations Early China Policy under Movement Government Constraints
CHAPTER 4 Movement Government and Movement Society: The Tsai Administrations
Tumultuous First Year CHAPTER 5 Declining Nationalism and Rising
Independents: Shifting Public Opinion during 20162018 CHAPTER 6 The 2018
Local Elections: The Movement Governments Failed Midterm in a Divided
Movement Society CHAPTER 7 The 2020 Re-Election: Adaptability, Security
Politics, and the DPPs Resurgence CHAPTER 8 Taiwans Cabinet Instability
under Semi-Presidentialism: Patterns, Causes, and Political Consequences
CHAPTER 9 From COVID-19 to Political Consolidation of the DPP: Taiwans
Domestic Politics in 2021 CHAPTER 10 Rising Tensions, Expanding Partnerships:
Taiwans External Relations in 2021 CHAPTER 11 Geopolitical Spillovers:
China, Taiwan, and the United States after the Ukraine Crisis CHAPTER 12 From
Pro-Independence Stalwart to Pragmatic Successor: William Lai Ching-tes
Presidential Candidacy CHAPTER 13 The 2024 Presidential Election: Taiwans
Shifting Political Landscape amid Great Power Rivalry CHAPTER 14 Ko Wen-je
and the TPP: Social Base of Third-Force Politics CHAPTER 15 The Lai
Administrations Early Governance under Pressure: Domestic Gains and
Cross-Strait Caution CHAPTER 16 Navigating Minority Governance: Lai
Ching-tes First Year Challenges and Achievements PART II CHINAS TAIWAN
POLICY AND THE USCHINATAIWAN TRIANGULAR RELATIONS SINCE 2016 CHAPTER 17
From Netizen Militancy to Policy Pragmatism: Chinas Mixed Signals Towards
the Tsai Administration CHAPTER 18 Reactive and Proactive Dimensions of
Chinas Taiwan Policy: Achievements and Constraints CHAPTER 19 Wooing the
Taiwanese Public: Beijings Unilateral Initiatives and Taipeis
Countermeasures CHAPTER 20 Political Confrontation and Social-Economic
Integration: Cross-Strait Relations in 2017 CHAPTER 21 Who Supports Armed
Unification with Taiwan? Evidence from Urban China CHAPTER 22 The 2022 White
Paper on the Taiwan Question: Rhetoric, Policy Adjustments, and Strategic
Signaling under Xi Jinping CHAPTER 23 Clearer Goals, Evolving Bottom Lines:
Strategic Ambiguity in ChinaUS Competition over Taiwan and the South China
Sea Appendices
Dongtao Qi is Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. He received his PhD in Sociology from Stanford University and conducts research in political sociology, especially on state-society relations and nationalism in Taiwan and mainland China.
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