The Case for Maintaining Strategic Ambiguity in the Taiwan Strait

2021/04/03 by Nien-chung Chang-Liao, Nien‐chung Chang‐Liao, Chi Fang
Social Sciences · #International Relations and Foreign Policy #Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies

paper · doi:10.1080/0163660x.2021.1932088

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Abstract

For decades, one key dimension of US policy toward Taiwan has been “strategic ambiguity.”1 With its equivocal reassurance in defending Taiwan, while recognizing there is “one China,” Washington has...

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