Protests, Pandemic, and Security Predicaments

Wei-chin Lee is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Wake Forest University, USA.

• 1 Introduction.- Part I: Hong Kong: Waves of Protests for Rights.- 2 Contesting Identities: Hong Kong Protest, Taiwan’s Concerns, and China’s Challenges.- 3 The New National Security Laws and Foreign Elements in Hong Kong.- Part II: Taiwan: Riding the Anti-China Tide.- 4 Threat Perception and Taiwan’s 2020 Presidential Election.- 5 Taiwan Can Help: Political Impacts and Lessons Learned from Taiwan’s Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic.- 6 Taiwan’s Public Opinion, Party Politics, and International Environment in the Making of Taiwan’s Mainland China Policy.- 7 Caught between the US and the PRC: Taiwan in an Asymmetrical Strategic Triangle.- Part III: China: Coping with the Turbulent Currents of Challenges.- 8 The Pandemic Further Sickens US-China Relations.- 9 China’s Policy toward Taiwan in the Xi Era.- 10 A Pyrrhic Victory? The Political Economy of US-China Competition.- 11 Xi Jinping’s Shift to Coercive Strategy for National Reunification.- Part IV: The US: Breaking the Grip of theRip for Hegemonic Status.- 12.  Competitions and Coalitions: An Emerging U.S. Domestic Consensus and the Taiwan Strait Tensions since 2019.- 13 America’s Hardening Strategy toward China: Domestic politics, US Resolve and Their Implications for China, Taiwan, and the Region.