POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Complex Interdependence, Power Transition Theory, Power Projection
Document Summary
The rise of great powers: international relations theory, uncertain realities and the rise of china: democracies don"t go to war with each other: De jure chinese province: the americans decided to be a little closers, we ll be friends with china this put taiwan in problem it was no longer a nation state, So now taiwan is a province of china. De facto independent state :in many ways it operates as a country but formally its not. 1996 missile crisis. send a few missiles on the footsteps of taiwan to show that they are watching. 2005 anti secession law: if any chinese them. province trys to declare independent the chinese government will launch an attack to prevent this from happening. arms and ammunitions. 2010 arms procurement bill : so taiwan decided to buy: china"s rise like germany"s rise will have an impact on the whole international system, china is now a economic power, what we now about china, hard power:
