dc.contributor.author | DUCHÂTEL, Mathieu | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-29T14:00:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-06-29T14:00:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-92-9084-993-3 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2467-4540 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/71781 | |
dc.description.abstract | Since Taiwan’s re-election of President Tsai Ing-wen with a legis-lative majority, China has been slowly increasing military pressure against the Republic of China (ROC). The People’s Liberation Army is being modernised to win a Taiwan war. The coercive use of military power signals China’s resolve to thwart Taiwan’s formal independence and to undermine the determination of the Taiwan-ese government, military leadership and general population to re-sist to China’s unification project. In addition to military signalling - the policy toolbox of Beijing includes the economic coercion card of a full-scale military confrontation in the Taiwan Strait - China is considering ‘cognitive operations’ that either impose costs and/or suggest that an increase of costs is an option on the table. At the minimum, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) aims to create perceptions and to affect a cost-benefits calculus regarding future options and choices. At the maximum, such as the seizure of one of Taiwan’s outlying islands, | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | European University Institute | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Policy Briefs | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 2021/27 | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Global Governance Programme | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | EU-Asia Project | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | [Europe in the World] | en |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | Europe in the World | en |
dc.title | Scenarios of crisis in the Taiwan strait | en |
dc.type | Other | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.2870/733819 | |
dc.rights.license | Attribution 4.0 International | * |