Chinese Incursions | Taiwan Insider | Jan. 28, 2021 | RTI

[Preparing for war, or psychological warfare?]

China sent a record number of warplanes near Taiwan this week, testing nerves and prompting the air force to scramble its jets. War expert Kerry Gershaneck, author of Political Warfare: Strategies for Combating China’s Plan to “Win Without Fighting”, weighs in on China’s tactics, who they’re aimed at, and how Taiwan can protect itself from China.

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[matthewmann]

China seems to very much have a say in what Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, And Mongolia does

[franz.k]

The weblink to Mr. Gershaneck's book is incomplete. Could you please re-post?

[SighKronmiller]

From the CIA World Fact Book. First inhabited by Austronesian people, Taiwan became home to Han immigrants beginning in the late Ming Dynasty (17th century). In 1895, military defeat forced China's Qing Dynasty to cede Taiwan to Japan, which then governed Taiwan for 50 years. Taiwan came under Chinese Nationalist (Kuomintang, KMT) control after World War II. With the communist victory in the Chinese civil war in 1949, the Nationalist-controlled Republic of China government and 2 million Nationalists fled to Taiwan and continued to claim to be the legitimate government for mainland China and Taiwan based on a 1947 Constitution drawn up for all of China. Until 1987, however, the Nationalist government ruled Taiwan under a civil war martial law declaration dating to 1948. Beginning in the 1970s, Nationalist authorities gradually began to incorporate the native population into the governing structure beyond the local level. The democratization process expanded rapidly in the 1980s, leading to the then illegal founding of Taiwan’s first opposition party (the Democratic Progressive Party or DPP) in 1986 and the lifting of martial law the following year. Taiwan held legislative elections in 1992, the first in over forty years, and its first direct presidential election in 1996. In the 2000 presidential elections, Taiwan underwent its first peaceful transfer of power with the KMT loss to the DPP and afterwards experienced two additional democratic transfers of power in 2008 and 2016. Throughout this period, the island prospered, became one of East Asia's economic "Tigers, " and after 2000 became a major investor in mainland China as cross-Strait ties matured. The dominant political issues continue to be economic reform and growth as well as management of sensitive relations between Taiwan and China.

[hiroshinagoya]

The book weblink is banned or deleted 404 error.

[jagsingh]

Taiwan is a part of China because China has 2 parts due to civil war, Taiwan of China and mainland of China. Currently both 2 parts have their own administrations but UN and almost all countries admit mainland China as the country China. Sooner or later both parts will be united because separation caused by civil war should not last long. God bless their early unity.