UNITED STATES -TAIWAN SECURITY COOPERATION
ANALYSING ITS SECURITY IMPLICATIONS FOR CHINA
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.47781/asiapacific.vol42.Iss42.7372Keywords:
Taiwan, China, Containment Strategy, One China Policy, Security cooperationAbstract
The Taiwan question is one of the flashpoints in the relations between the US and China. The visit of US officials to Taiwan makes China furious and this can even lead to military confrontation in the Asia-Pacific. Many experts believe that if a war were to break out between these two great powers, the US and China, it would be catastrophic to peace and order in the world today especially with what is going on in Ukraine. On record, Taiwan is said to belong to China; The United States does not recognise the claim. Nevertheless, the US’s assistance to Taiwan in all possible ways incites China’s anger because they regard such actions as American interference. Following the conclusion of the Cold War, the US comes up with a strategy that was somewhat ambiguous towards Taiwan as a strategy of containing China’s expansion. What they do is that they offer to defend Taiwan which in turn causes panic in China. The present study tries to maintain that the increased strains in relations between the two countries have a high likelihood that they will result in a military conflict.
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