Original Source: Asia-Pacific Security and Maritime Affairs
An academic journal edited and published by the Collaborative Innovation Center of South China Sea Studies at Nanjing University, which is sponsored by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance. The journal publishes articles on regional maritime security issues.
Wang Shushen, an expert in U.S.-Taiwan relations at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, argues that shifts in the level and nature of U.S. arms sales to Taiwan that began under the Trump administration are forcing Beijing to deploy its own set of deterrence measures. These dynamics, Wang argues, will make it difficult to prevent and control a crisis in and around the Taiwan Strait in the future.
Published in the months leading up to Speaker Pelosi’s August trip to Taiwan, a scholar at a foreign ministry-backed think tank argues that “the Taiwan issue is the most important and sensitive core issue between the US and China,” and that in order to contain any “spillover” to the broader relationship, the two sides should focus on “confidence-building measures and crisis management cooperation.”
Executive director of the Institute of International Studies of Nanjing University, Zhu Feng, and research assistant Ni Guihua, react to the Biden administration’s Indo-Pacific strategy. Zhu and Feng view the policy as a partially aimed at constraining China’s development.