Forceful Taiwan Reunification: China’s Targeted Military And Civilian-Military Measures – Analysis

By Suyash Desai

(FPRI) -- For nearly a century, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan have largely avoided direct military confrontations across the Taiwan Strait. However, there have been four notable exceptions: the Taiwan Strait crises of 1954–55, 1958, 1995–96, and most recently, 2022–23. In the first...