What lessons can we learn from the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 65 years later? Photo: A defunct artillery base on the island of Kinmen, now open to tourists, photographed in July 2018.

A new report from the Swedish National China Centre finds that forecasts consistently rate the risk of armed conflict in the Taiwan strait as low. While parallels are often overdone, the infamous ...

The risk of a serious crisis between China and Taiwan is growing. Cross-strait relations have chilled in recent years as a result of the unwillingness of Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen to ...

The narrow strait that separates Taiwan from China is a frequent source of tension. Taiwan reports Chinese warplanes and warships operating there on a daily basis, as Beijing seeks to assert its ...

Is a crisis coming? Here's everything you need to know: China has always considered Taiwan its territory, and reunification is an almost sacred cause. Tensions across the Taiwan Strait have led to ...

However, there is an even larger supply chain crisis ... of the Strait of Taiwan by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy. The growing supply chain tensions began in October 2023, when ...

3. Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, “Strategic Ambiguity or Strategic Clarity?” in Dangerous Strait: The U.S.-Taiwan-China Crisis, ed. Tucker (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005). For a game theory ...

TOKYO/BEIJING--Japan's Self Defense Force sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday for the ... "We have a strong sense of crisis that airspace violations have occurred one after another ...

Comparing the current crisis to the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis from 1995-96, Japan’s attitude toward China, the U.S., and other like-minded countries has changed significantly.