China Taiwan policy

The second piece of a two-part analysis focusing on semiconductors and cross-strait geopolitics.

Instead, China’s military bravado represents the end state of a failed strategy.

Taiwan issued warnings and condemned the flights as it conducted its own military drills.

Today's Chinese nationalism is built on CCP loyalty and Han culture and identity – and thus leaves out a large number of China’s people.

For China, the pandemic was more burden than opportunity. 

Even more than Tsai’s landslide re-election, the outbreak spells major trouble for the CCP’s unification agenda.

The Chinese government threatened Czech companies over a planned Taiwan visit by a top Czech official. It’s part of a global strategy to pressure entities that engage with Taiwan.

The framework for governing Hong Kong and Macau – and, Beijing hopes, one day Taiwan – is battered but unbroken.

Taipei and Beijing could both extend olive branches in the name of a public health emergency that would otherwise be politically infeasible.

The 1992 Consensus is being challenged by each of the three major forces shaping cross-strait relations: the DPP, the KMT, and Beijing.

Taiwan's presidential election was heavily influenced by cross-strait relations. What comes next?

Why does so much of China's approach to Taiwan under the DPP seem self-defeating? Because Beijing believes it has no other choice.