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Taiwan

Explore Foreign Affairs’ coverage of political, economic, and security issues in Taiwan, past and present.

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What Is China Learning From Russia’s War in Ukraine?

America and Taiwan Need to Grasp—and Influence—Chinese Views of the Conflict

David Sacks

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Where Capitalism Is Working

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The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan

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Divided Isles: Solomon Islands and the China Switch

The Taiwan Fallacy

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The Looming Crisis in the Taiwan Strait

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How China Will Squeeze, Not Seize, Taiwan

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Defending Taiwan by Defending Ukraine

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East Asia’s Coming Population Collapse

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The Taiwan Catastrophe

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The Strategic Case for Democracy Promotion in Asia

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Can China Swing Taiwan’s Elections?

Taiwan’s Status Quo Election

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Taiwan and the True Sources of Deterrence

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The Right Way to Deter China From Attacking Taiwan

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Taiwan’s Path Between Extremes

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Don’t Panic About Taiwan

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Taiwan Is Already Independent

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Should the United States Pledge to Defend Taiwan?

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How to Avoid a War Over Taiwan

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Time Is Running Out to Defend Taiwan

Michèle A. Flournoy, Michael A. Brown

The Upside of Pelosi’s Unwise Taiwan Visit

America Must Prepare for a War Over Taiwan

How to Survive the Next Taiwan Strait Crisis

Beijing Is Still Playing the Long Game on Taiwan

Andrew J. Nathan

The Consequences of Conquest

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The Tiger Leading the Dragon: How Taiwan Propelled China’s Economic Rise

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Emerging Markets Are the Next Comeback Nations

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Oriana Skylar Mastro

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The Growing Danger of U.S. Ambiguity on Taiwan

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How to Prevent an Accidental War Over Taiwan

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Taiwan and the Fight for Democracy

Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies

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Strait of Emergency?

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The Taiwan Temptation

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Washington Is Avoiding the Tough Questions on Taiwan and China

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Two Books on Taiwan

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The Overreach of the China Hawks

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Dire Straits

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American Support for Taiwan Must Be Unambiguous

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China’s Troubling Vision for the Future of Public Health

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Is Taiwan the Next Hong Kong?

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How Civic Technology Can Help Stop a Pandemic

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China Steps Up Its Information War in Taiwan

China’s Neo-Maoist Moment

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Taiwan’s Defense Strategy Doesn’t Make Military Sense

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Taiwan’s Former Nuclear Weapons Program: Nuclear Weapons On-Demand

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Will China Seize Taiwan?

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Beijing’s Nuclear Option

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Is a Storm Brewing in the Taiwan Strait?

Making Money: How Taiwanese Industrialists Embraced the Global Economy

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Playing the Taiwan Card

Asia in the Trump Era

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How Beijing Could Squeeze Taiwan

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Taipei's Name Game

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One China, One Taiwan

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Crowding the Waters

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Taiwan's Treaty Trouble

Uncharted Strait: The Future of China-Taiwan Relations

Tough Taiwan

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Letter to the Editor

Island Grabbing in Asia

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Why Ma Won the Elections and What's Next for Taiwan and China

Disengaging from Taiwan

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Beijing’s Coastal Real Estate

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To the Finland Station

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What to Read on Taiwanese Politics

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Taiwan's Relations With Mainland China: A Tail Wagging Two Dogs

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Political Change in China: Comparisons With Taiwan

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Preventing a War Over Taiwan

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Trouble in Taiwan

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Taiwan: A Political History

Crisis in the Taiwan Strait?

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Facing Reality in China Policy

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Born a Foreigner: A Memoir of the American Presence in Asia

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Roiling Asia: U.S. Coziness with China Upsets the Neighbors

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Preventing War in the Taiwan Strait

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