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Ensuring Interests: Dynamics of China-Taiwan Relations and Southeast Asia.

Publication: Contemporary Southeast Asia
Publication Date: 01-APR-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Ensuring Interests: Dynamics of China-Taiwan Relations and Southeast Asia.(Book review)

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Ensuring Interests: Dynamics of China-Taiwan Relations and Southeast Asia. Edited by Ho Khai Leong and Hou Kok Chung. Kuala Lumpur: Institute of China Studies, University of Malaya, 2006. Softcover: 305pp.

The Taiwan Strait confrontation and the nuclear-weapon programme of North Korea have been the two most significant potential crises in the Asia-Pacific region. Besides the major powers, Southeast Asian states have important interests at stake in developments in the Taiwan Strait. While they all recognize the "one China" principle, they are very concerned about the potential impact of conflicts in the Taiwan Strait on the political and economic development in the region. They certainly want to avoid having to make a strategic choice should military conflicts occur in the Taiwan Strait. Meanwhile, they maintain substantial informal relations with Taiwan, and try to persuade the United States to continue to engage in the Asia-Pacific region.

A critical analysis of the changing interests and dynamics of the triangular relations among China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia from the latter's perspective is an important contribution regarding a neglected topic. The...

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