Economic integration, democratization and national security in East Asia : shifting paradigms in US, China and Taiwan relations / edited by Peter C.Y. Chow.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Introduction -- The shifting paradigm in US, China and Taiwan relations : causes and implications for US economic, security and strategic interests / Peter C.Y Chow -- Part II. Democratization in Taiwan and its Impacts on the Triangular Relations -- China's incorporation of Taiwan : the manipulation of community tensions / Edward Friedman -- Taiwan's party system, coalition politics and cross-Strait relations / Tun-Jen Cheng and Yung-Ming Hsu -- US response to rising Taiwanese identity and China's emerging power / June Teufel Dreyer -- Legislating the cross-Strait status quo? : China's Anti-Secession Law, Taiwan's constitutional reform and referenda, and the United States' Taiwan Relations Act / Jacques deLisle -- Taiwan's choices / Nat Bellocchi -- Part III. Economic Integration and Security of the Global Supply Chains -- Growing East Asian trade and economic integration : implications for economic relations across the Taiwan Strait / Dan Ciuriak -- Taiwan and East Asian integration / Tain-Jy Chen and Ying-Hua Ku -- Prospects of a US-Taiwan free trade agreement : the China factor and critical assessments / Frank S.T Hsiao and Mei-Chu W Hsiao -- Taiwan's FTA bid : process and prospects from the global IT supply chain perspective / Merritt T. Cooke -- Part IV. US Strategic and Security Interests in Asia -- US leadership in Asia in the second term of the Bush administration and the challenge of China's rise / Robert Sutter -- North Korea's nuclear threat and its impact on Taiwan's security / Richard D. Fisher -- Has there been a shift in Japanese policy toward China? / Alexander K. Young -- The lifting of the EU arms embargo on China : an American perspective / Peter Brookes -- Part V. Postscript -- China's strategy : 'Licking the US without firing a shot' / Alexander K. Young.

The US policy of simultaneously supporting a democratic Taiwan while engaging a rising China under authoritarianism is a delicate and complex balance, with outcomes critical to economic, security and strategic interests in Asia. This volume examines the political and economic dimensions of this complex and pressing issue.