Abstract
Territorial disputes are among the most important causes of war. Since ruling groups in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) claim a right to use force to annex the island country known as Taiwan, the mainstream wisdom long has been that, if China were to get into a war, its territorial claim to Taiwan would most likely be the cause. Yet, it was not concern about a PRC security threat to Taiwan that led President Obama to rebalance toward Asia. During the Obama administration, China-Taiwan relations were better than ever before. The PRC claim to Taiwan seemed almost irrelevant in 2010 to the reasons why the US government felt compelled to rebalance toward Asia. But that process had already begun in 1996, sparked by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policies that contextualized the third crisis in the Taiwan Strait.
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Friedman, E. (2014). America’s Pivots to Asia and the Taiwan Strait Crises. In: Chow, P.C.Y. (eds) The US Strategic Pivot to Asia and Cross-Strait Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137360779_4
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