The Trouble with Taiwan: History, the United States and a Rising China by Kerry Brown, Paul French, Kalley Wu Tzu Hui, Kerry Brown, Paul French, Kalley Wu Tzu Hui

The Trouble with Taiwan: History, the United States and a Rising China
Kerry Brown, Paul French, Kalley Wu Tzu Hui, Kerry Brown, Paul French, Kalley Wu Tzu Hui
Page: 272
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ISBN: 9781350363885
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Overview

Taiwan is one of the great paradoxes of the international order. A place with its own flag, currency, government and military, but which most of the world does not recognise as a sovereign country. An island that China regards as a 'rebellious province', but which has managed to survive defiantly for decades. Now with its neighbour China a major power on the world stage and ally United States looking increasingly inward, Taiwan's position has never been more precarious.

Kerry Brown and Kalley Wu Tzu-hui reveal how the island's shifting fortunes have been shaped by centuries of conquest and by a cast of dynamic characters, by Cold War intrigue and the rise of its neighbour as a global power, explaining how this tiny island, caught between the agendas of two superpowers, is attempting to find its place in a rapidly changing world order.

The Trouble with Taiwan relates the story of a fascinating nation and culture, and how its disputed status speaks to a wider, global story about Chinese control and waning US influence.

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