The U.S.-Taiwan Security Relationship in a Time of Transition

New challenges, opportunities and uncertainty in an extremely complex environment 

The 2016 elections of Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in Taiwan, and of Donald J. Trump in the United States have injected new uncertainty in the security environment across the Taiwan Strait. Meanwhile, an increasingly self-assured Beijing, aided by political developments in China encouraging assertiveness, is creating new tensions in the region, which will create new challenges for Washington and Taipei. 

My analysis, published today on the Brookings Institution's Taiwan-U.S. Quarterly Analysis, continues here.