The Chinese strategy towards Taiwan and its regional repercussions

Abstract

Taiwan is of great importance to China. The Constitution of the People's Republic of China indicates that Taiwan is "sacred land" for China. From Beijing's point of view, failure to reintegrate Taiwan into the motherland could affect the ability of the Chinese Communist Party to maintain legitimacy in China. With increasing nationalism, and the Chinese Communist Party’s view of its legitimacy based on promoting “a unified vision for China and the world: one China, one truth, one world, one dream,” the party cannot leave Taiwan with a future separate from it. Therefore, Taiwan is certainly a fundamental national interest of the People's Republic of China as long as the Chinese Communist Party monopolizes power.

Taiwan has occupied a lot of Chinese strategic thinking over the past decades, which has affected China in its foreign relations, especially regional ones. This effect has caused major problems for China at the level of its foreign policy, as it has become a place of competition.

Keywords: Chinese strategy, repercussions of the Taiwanese crisis, Taiwan, China.