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Building trust across the Taiwan strait: a strategy of reassurance / Liao, Nien-chung Chang

Liao, Nien-chung Chang	Journal Article
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2012.

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Rivalry ; Cross - Strait Relations ; Reassurance ; Costly Signaling ; Trust - Building

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Comparing inter-Korean and cross-Taiwan strait trust-building: the limits of reassurance / Liao, Nien-chung Chang

Liao, Nien-chung Chang	Article
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This study examines Kim Dae Jung’s 1998–2002 Sunshine Policy toward North Korea and the mutual reassurances between Taiwan and China from 2008 to 2013. Furthermore, it explores factors contributing to the failure of trust-building in the two cases, and the implications for reassurance theory as well as the prospects for inter-Korean and cross-Taiwan Strait relations.

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Rebalancing Taiwan–US relations / Liao, Nien-chung Chang; Lin, Dalton Kuen-da x

Liao, Nien-chung Chang	Journal Article
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The Taiwan–US relationship is a tacit alliance, one that has always been contentious. Although the US severed its diplomatic ties with the Republic of China when it recognised the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1979, the Taiwan Relations Act of the same year enshrined an unofficial relationship with Taipei that has remained close over the past four decades. Under the provisions of that act, the US continues to sell defensive weapons to Taiwan and insists that any resolution of the Taiwan issue must be peaceful. Washington’s commitment to Taiwan was evident when the United States sent two aircraft carriers to the Taiwan Strait during the 1995–96 missile crisis.

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Taiwan ; United States ; Chna

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Winds of change: assessing China’s assertive turn in foreign policy / Liao, Nien-chung Chang

Liao, Nien-chung Chang	Journal Article
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The current debate on the question of whether China has become more assertive involves two opposing opinions on Beijing’s foreign policy orientation. This article argues that the key question is whether China is about to change its approach to foreign policy, one which has enabled its “peaceful rise” in recent decades. It examines variations in Chinese foreign policy by developing a set of interrelated indicators of changes in a state’s external behavior. The results reveal a marked increase in China’s military spending and power projection capability, foreign aid, and diplomatic initiatives after the 2008 global financial crisis, as well as an expansion of Beijing’s alliance commitments through the establishment of partnership relationships around the world. These findings not only support the increased assertiveness argument but also indicate a larger transformation in Chinese foreign policy—China is becoming more active diplomatically as part of its quest for great power status.

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Foreign Aid ; Military Spending ; Strategic Partnership ; Assertiveness ; Chinese Foreign Policy

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