Opinion
Letzte Aktualisierung: August 22, 2022
Taiwan and the challenges of peaceful change

By Nadine Godehardt and Gudrun Wacker, SWP
Recent developments in the Taiwan Strait have once again demonstrated that the world no longer functions the same way it did before the Covid pandemic, before Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine, or before this Taiwan crisis. The People's Republic of China has responded to the visit of US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the trip of another US congressional delegation, and the announcement of the opening of formal negotiations on a US-Taiwan trade and investment agreement not only with sharp verbal criticism, but also with massive military drills and the publication of a white paper on Taiwan.
