Ryan Hass is the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies at the Brookings Institution. Bonnie Glaser is Managing Director of the Indo-Pacific Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Richard Bush is author of seven books, including most recently, Difficult Choices: Taiwan’s Quest for Security and the Good Life (Brookings Press, 2021).

The special relationship between the US and Taiwan has been challenged as US-PRC tensions rise to new heights. This volume treats the background to the present conflict: US-Taiwan relations from 2016 to 2023, including the administration of Tsai Ing-wen in Taiwan and the presidencies of Trump and Biden in the US…The authors are experienced observers of the dynamic relationship and urge greater use of political, rather than military, means to resolve conflict. They are concerned that since the 1995–96 crisis in US-PRC relations, the Chinese military has grown stronger, and the gap between its capability and Taiwan's has enlarged. The authors term President Tsai a "reliable" partner who has been cautious about dealing with China's "coercion without violence." They advise American policy makers to "keep space open for Taipei and Beijing to find a peaceful solution to cross-Strait differences that is acceptable to Taiwan's people". Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals.

• IntroductionChapter 1: The historical background of the current conflictChapter 2: U.S.-Taiwan Relations from 2016 to presentChapter 3: Charting the future of U.S.-Taiwan relationsFurther ReadingAppendices

Ryan Hass is the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies at the Brookings Institution. Bonnie Glaser is Managing Director of the Indo-Pacific Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Richard Bush is author of seven books, including most recently, Difficult Choices: Taiwan’s Quest for Security and the Good Life (Brookings Press, 2021).

The special relationship between the US and Taiwan has been challenged as US-PRC tensions rise to new heights. This volume treats the background to the present conflict: US-Taiwan relations from 2016 to 2023, including the administration of Tsai Ing-wen in Taiwan and the presidencies of Trump and Biden in the US…The authors are experienced observers of the dynamic relationship and urge greater use of political, rather than military, means to resolve conflict. They are concerned that since the 1995–96 crisis in US-PRC relations, the Chinese military has grown stronger, and the gap between its capability and Taiwan's has enlarged. The authors term President Tsai a "reliable" partner who has been cautious about dealing with China's "coercion without violence." They advise American policy makers to "keep space open for Taipei and Beijing to find a peaceful solution to cross-Strait differences that is acceptable to Taiwan's people". Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals.

• IntroductionChapter 1: The historical background of the current conflictChapter 2: U.S.-Taiwan Relations from 2016 to presentChapter 3: Charting the future of U.S.-Taiwan relationsFurther ReadingAppendices

Ryan Hass is the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies at the Brookings Institution. Bonnie Glaser is Managing Director of the Indo-Pacific Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Richard Bush is author of seven books, including most recently, Difficult Choices: Taiwan’s Quest for Security and the Good Life (Brookings Press, 2021).

The special relationship between the US and Taiwan has been challenged as US-PRC tensions rise to new heights. This volume treats the background to the present conflict: US-Taiwan relations from 2016 to 2023, including the administration of Tsai Ing-wen in Taiwan and the presidencies of Trump and Biden in the US…The authors are experienced observers of the dynamic relationship and urge greater use of political, rather than military, means to resolve conflict. They are concerned that since the 1995–96 crisis in US-PRC relations, the Chinese military has grown stronger, and the gap between its capability and Taiwan's has enlarged. The authors term President Tsai a "reliable" partner who has been cautious about dealing with China's "coercion without violence." They advise American policy makers to "keep space open for Taipei and Beijing to find a peaceful solution to cross-Strait differences that is acceptable to Taiwan's people". Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals.

• IntroductionChapter 1: The historical background of the current conflictChapter 2: U.S.-Taiwan Relations from 2016 to presentChapter 3: Charting the future of U.S.-Taiwan relationsFurther ReadingAppendices