Difficult Choices - Taiwan's Quest for Security and the Good Life

How Taiwan can overcome internal stresses and the threat from China
The book explores the broad range of issues and policy choices Taiwan confronts and offers suggestions both for what Taiwan can do to help itself and what the United States should do to improve Taiwan's chances of success.

List of contents

Contents:
Acknowledgments
Notes on Terminology
1. Introduction
2. Popular Attitudes in Taiwan: A Preliminary Baseline
3. Taiwan's Government Budget
4. Taiwan's Economy
5. Taiwan's Energy Policy
6. The Politics of Taiwan's Past
7. Beijing's Taiwan Ambition
8. Taiwan's Search for Security
9. Taiwan's Military Defense
10. Taiwan's Political Defense: National Identity
11. Taiwan's Political Defense: The State
12. The PRC's Asymmetric Offense
13. Taiwan's Democratic System
14. United States Policy
15. What to Do?
Notes
Index

About the author

Richard C. Bush is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Chen-fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies. He is a leading specialist on issues concerning Taiwan and its relations with China.

Product details

• Authors: Richard C. Bush, Bush Richard C.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.04.2021
• EAN: 9780815738336
• ISBN: 978-0-8157-3833-6
• No. of pages: 429
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), Taiwan, Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, International Relations, Politics & government, Warfare & defence, Political structures: democracy, Social services and welfare, criminology, Political ideologies and movements