POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Democratic Peace Theory, De Jure, George Soros
18 Nov 2013
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Lecture 8 the rise of great powers november 18, 2013. The rise of great powers: international relations theory, Democracies don"t fight one another: democracies are allies, democracies share ideologies (politics, economics) Everything is uncertain, we still attempt to predict. During cold war, china, as a communist country, was not recognized. Normalization of relations recognized china, demoted taiwan. Taiwan is a de jure chinese province, de jure it is an independent state in reality. 1996: missile crisis chinese launched missiles to scare taiwan. 2005: anti-secession law should taiwan declare independence, china will use military force. 2010: arms procurement bill weapons brought from the us by the chinese. The us will defend taiwan if attacked. Taiwan is not afraid because they are at a strategic position for the us and expect defense from the us due to moral standing. There are a lot of uncertainties we don"t know how china, (i) china"s economic rise: modernization of agriculture, defense, science & technology.
