TY  - BOOK
AU  - CHEN Ching-Chang
TI  - When is China's military modernization dangerous?: constructing the cross-strait offense-defense balance and U.S. arms sales to Taiwan 
PY  - 2009///
KW  - TAIWAN
KW  - FOREIGN RELATIONS
KW  - OFFENCE DEFENCE BALANCE
KW  - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY
KW  - THREAT PERCEPTIONS
KW  - UNITED STATES
KW  - FOREIGN POLICY
N2  - Uses offence-defence theory to analyse how China's military development is perceived in Taiwan and the USA and how this is then used to reinforce Taiwanese identity. In essence China's military development changes the balance of power, excessive power makes conflict more likely, and the weaker party should increase its defence capacity commensurately. The article suggests that there are ambiguities in these assumptions and it is these as much as the potential of specific American weapons systems that help maintain Taiwan's conceptual otherness
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