• The best books on Taiwan and US-China relations - The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan by Matt Pottinger
  • The best books on Taiwan and US-China relations - The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and Xi Jinping’s China by Kevin Rudd
  • The best books on Taiwan and US-China relations - US-Taiwan Relations: Will China’s Challenge Lead to a Crisis? by Bonnie Glaser, Richard Bush & Ryan Hass
  • The best books on Taiwan and US-China relations - The Political Thought of Xi Jinping by Olivia Cheung & Steve Tsang
  • The best books on Taiwan and US-China relations - Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare by Edward Fishman

The best books on Taiwan and US-China relations, recommended by Eyck Freymann

Taiwan is a crucial lynchpin of the high-tech global economy, but its international political position is far from stable. China has explicit ambitions to incorporate it into the Chinese state and seems intent on building the military capacity to do this by force. The US is committed to preserving its de facto independence. For the moment, there is a stand-off, but a crisis over Taiwan would be a crisis for the world, politically and economically. Eyck Freymann, a fellow at the Hoover Institution, recommends five books to help understand the dynamics of the situation and the possible outcomes.