Taiwan Question in Xi Jinping’s Era

Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. He is the Founder and Editor of the Journal of Contemporary China and the author and editor of more than two dozen books and hundreds of academic articles.

• Introduction: China’s Taiwan Policy Adjustments and the Driving Forces 1. Is Beijing’s Long Game on Taiwan About to End? Peaceful Unification, Brinkmanship, and Military Takeover 2. Assessing Public Support for (Non-)Peaceful Unification with Taiwan: Evidence from a Nationwide Survey in China 3. Urban Chinese Support for Armed Unification with Taiwan: Social Status, National Pride and Understanding of Taiwan 4. Selective Engagement: Mainland China’s Dual-Track Taiwan Policy 5. When Independence Meets Reality: Symbolic and Pragmatic Politics in Taiwan 6. Butter or Guns: Taiwan’s Economic Policy Toward China 7. Changing Attitudes toward China in Taiwan and Hong Kong in the Xi Jinping Era 8. What Shapes Taiwan-related Legislation in U.S. Congress? 9. Korea-Taiwan “Unofficial” Relations after 30 Years (1992-2022): Reassessing Seoul’s “One China” Policy 10. The Vatican and Taiwan: An Anomalous Diplomatic Relationship