Sustaining the triangular balance
Subtitle: the Taiwan Strait policy of Barack Obama, Xi Jinping, and Ma Ying-Jeou
By: Dean P. Chen
Contributors: University of Maryland at Baltimore. School of Law
Series: Maryland series in contemporary Asian studies -- Number 1 - 2013 (212); Maryland series in contemporary Asian studies -- 2013, no. 1.
Publisher: University of Maryland, Carey School of Law
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Baltimore, Maryland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
ISBN-13: 9781932330427
Subjects: Strategic aspects; Foreign relations; International relations; Strategic aspects of individual places
Other titles: Taiwan Strait policy of Barack Obama, Xi Jinping, and Ma Ying-Jeou
Description: As Washington, Taipei, and Beijing commence their new administrations, this monograph sets out to examine their current and former respective Taiwan Strait policies and the strategic implications for cross-strait relations. Notwithstanding their domestic political pressures at home and different normative and strategic orientations and objectives, all three actors share the common national security interest in continuing and deepening the current peaceful China-Taiwan trajectory that has existed since May 2008.
Notes: Cover title.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and main argument; title: U.S. strategic ambiguity policy in the Taiwan Strait : a longstanding commitment. America's national interests in a liberal and open China; title: The logic of the U.S. strategic ambiguity policy; title: Domestic politics and the making of China policy; title: Conclusion : should the United States abandon strategic ambiguity? The "1992 consensus" and cross-strait peaceful development, examining the policies of Ma Ying-Jeou and Xi Jinping; title: Conclusion : the future of U.S. China-Taiwan relations.