J Michael Cole: The Taiwan Tinderbox | Buch

Cover: 9781509568055 | The Taiwan Tinderbox | J Michael Cole | Buch | Englisch | 2025

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Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world and overturned assumptions that large-scale conventional war was inconceivable in the twenty-first century. On the other side of the planet, democratic Taiwan faces the rising threat of a military takeover by China a conflict whose impact on the international community would be catastrophic.

Renowned Taiwan expert and former intelligence officer J. Michael Cole explains how this Pacific nation has become a tinderbox that could ignite a full-scale global conflict. Drawing on unparalleled access to Taiwanese government sources and two decades of on-the-ground observation, he explores the root causes of the conflict between Taiwan and China - from the identity politics that make "peaceful unification" inconceivable, to the rise of Xi Jinping, the most powerful and authoritarian Chinese leader since Mao Zedong. With in-depth analysis of how the war in Europe is influencing preparations by Beijing, Taipei, and Washington for a potential cross-Strait confrontation, The Taiwan Tinderbox is an impassioned plea for the defense of Taiwan as a priority for the international community and the future of democracy.

Über den Autor

J. Michael Cole is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow with the Global Taiwan Institute in Washington, D.C., the Macdonald-Laurier Institute in Ottawa, Canada, and the Taiwan Hub at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is also a Research Fellow and Executive Editor with the Prospect Foundation in Taiwan, and a strategic consultant for various governments and the private sector. Until May 2024, he was the Senior Advisor on Countering Foreign Authoritarian Influence (CFAI) with the International Republican Institute (IRI). He is a former analyst with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) in Ottawa.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Preface

Introduction
1. The Unbridgeable Divide
2. Xi's Unbridled Ambitions
3. Attacking Taiwan's Democracy
4. The Impact of Ukraine
5. The Catastrophe: War in the Taiwan Strait
6. Avoiding the Nightmare
7. Taiwan and the Battle for Democracy's Future

Notes
Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13:	9781509568055
ISBN-10:	1509568050
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Cole, J Michael
Hersteller:	Polity Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	221 x 148 x 29 mm
Von/Mit:	J Michael Cole
Erscheinungsdatum:	18.11.2025
Gewicht:	0,462 kg