The "One China" Dilemma

Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Foreword......Page 12
Preface......Page 16
Part I: Introduction......Page 18
1 An Overview on the Dilemma of “One China”: Myth versus Reality......Page 20
Part II: Historical Legacies and Taiwan’s Statehood......Page 34
2 The Myth of “One China”......Page 36
3 Taiwan’s Colonial History and Postcolonial Nationalism......Page 54
4 On the Statehood of Taiwan: A Legal Reappraisal......Page 74
5 The Statehood of Taiwan: A Strange Case of Domestic Strength and International Challenge......Page 98
Part III: Taiwan Identity Amid the Rising China......Page 114
6 National Identity, International Image, and a Security Dilemma: The Case of Taiwan......Page 116
7 Ethnic and Civic Nationalisms: Two Roads to the Formation of a Taiwanese Nation......Page 134
Part IV: The Dilemma of “One China” Policy......Page 162
8 An End to Europe’s “One China” Policy?......Page 164
9 Nixon and Taiwan in 1972: The Week That Didn’t Change the World......Page 176
10 Triangular Diplomacy Amid Leadership Transition......Page 196
11 Strategic Dilemma of Beijing’s Taiwan Policy: Chinese Nationalism and the Making of the Anti-Secession Law......Page 216
Part V: National Security and Defense Strategy......Page 232
12 “One China” and the Military Balance on the Taiwan Strait......Page 234
13 A National Defense Strategy for Taiwan in the New Century......Page 274
14 A New Imbalance in the Equation of Military Balance across the Taiwan Strait......Page 292
15 Japan and the Security of the Taiwan Strait......Page 308
List of Contributors......Page 324
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I......Page 328
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Z......Page 335