Taiwan: Defending a Non-Vital US Interest

2025/01/02 by Michael D. Swaine
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Global trade and economics

paper · doi:10.1080/0163660x.2025.2478779

openalex publication_date 2025/01/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/03

Abstract

For both the United States and China, management of Taiwan—claimed by Beijing yet protected for nearly seventy-five years by Washington—has become a dangerous source of tension and a possible casus...

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