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China Taiwan policy
![Trouble on China’s Periphery: The Stability-Instability Paradox Trouble on China’s Periphery: The Stability-Instability Paradox](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat.com-3205366669_c1f1143907_b.jpg)
Trouble on China’s Periphery: The Stability-Instability Paradox
By David Skidmore
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.
![Did COVID-19 Really Give China a Strategic Advantage? Did COVID-19 Really Give China a Strategic Advantage?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-flag-540874_1280.jpg)
Did COVID-19 Really Give China a Strategic Advantage?
By Denny Roy
For China, the pandemic was more burden than opportunity.
![COVID-19 Brings Cross-Strait Relations to a Crossroads COVID-19 Brings Cross-Strait Relations to a Crossroads](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-04-30-8.jpg)
COVID-19 Brings Cross-Strait Relations to a Crossroads
By Chieh-chi Hsieh
Even more than Tsai’s landslide re-election, the outbreak spells major trouble for the CCP’s unification agenda.
![Czech Companies the Latest Target of Chinese Retaliation for Taiwan Ties Czech Companies the Latest Target of Chinese Retaliation for Taiwan Ties](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-02-21-5.jpg)
Czech Companies the Latest Target of Chinese Retaliation for Taiwan Ties
By Nick Aspinwall
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.
![Where Does China’s ‘One Country, Two Systems’ Stand in 2020? Where Does China’s ‘One Country, Two Systems’ Stand in 2020?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-800px-hong_kong_anti-extradition_bill_protest_48108527873.jpg)
Where Does China’s ‘One Country, Two Systems’ Stand in 2020?
By Derek Grossman
The framework for governing Hong Kong and Macau – and, Beijing hopes, one day Taiwan – is battered but unbroken.
![The Coronavirus Outbreak Presents an Opportunity for Cross-Strait Rapprochement The Coronavirus Outbreak Presents an Opportunity for Cross-Strait Rapprochement](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-02-07-3.jpg)
The Coronavirus Outbreak Presents an Opportunity for Cross-Strait Rapprochement
By Jo Kim
Taipei and Beijing could both extend olive branches in the name of a public health emergency that would otherwise be politically infeasible.
![Is This the End of the 1992 Consensus? Is This the End of the 1992 Consensus?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-48054869131_4097eb4c13_k.jpg)
Is This the End of the 1992 Consensus?
By Zihao Liu
The 1992 Consensus is being challenged by each of the three major forces shaping cross-strait relations: the DPP, the KMT, and Beijing.
![Treading Choppy Waters: Cross-Strait Relations in Taiwan’s 2020 Presidential Election Treading Choppy Waters: Cross-Strait Relations in Taiwan’s 2020 Presidential Election](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-01-14-7.jpg)
Treading Choppy Waters: Cross-Strait Relations in Taiwan’s 2020 Presidential Election
By Pam Kennedy
Taiwan's presidential election was heavily influenced by cross-strait relations. What comes next?
![Beijing’s Fear of Taiwan Independence Under Tsai Steers Taiwan Away From Unification – Again Beijing’s Fear of Taiwan Independence Under Tsai Steers Taiwan Away From Unification – Again](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-01-07-18.jpg)
Beijing’s Fear of Taiwan Independence Under Tsai Steers Taiwan Away From Unification – Again
By Jo Kim
Why does so much of China's approach to Taiwan under the DPP seem self-defeating? Because Beijing believes it has no other choice.
![Beijing’s Animosity Toward Taiwan’s DPP Is Bad for Everyone Beijing’s Animosity Toward Taiwan’s DPP Is Bad for Everyone](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2019-12-12-5.jpg)
Beijing’s Animosity Toward Taiwan’s DPP Is Bad for Everyone
By Jeremy Huai-Che Chiang
China's stubborn refusal to engage the Democratic Progressive Party is undermining its own stated goal of peaceful unification.
![Despite China’s Tough Talk, US Should Move Forward With Taiwan Despite China’s Tough Talk, US Should Move Forward With Taiwan](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-46562093635_6941ce6e3d_k.jpg)
Despite China’s Tough Talk, US Should Move Forward With Taiwan
By Alan Hao Yang and Jeremy Huai-Che Chiang
China's belligerent rhetoric toward Taiwan is all the more reason for Washington and Taipei to stick together.
![China’s Surreptitious Economic Influence on Taiwan’s Elections China’s Surreptitious Economic Influence on Taiwan’s Elections](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat.com-18618845979_6aac968c90_z.jpg)
China’s Surreptitious Economic Influence on Taiwan’s Elections
By Jason Li
Taiwan’s November elections weren’t directly about cross-strait relations, but that doesn’t mean China had no impact.