The expert assessed the likelihood of a military solution to the Taiwan issue by the PRC
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The Chinese authorities do not plan to solve the Taiwan problem militarily and get involved in a conflict with the United States, giving priority to peaceful mechanisms, says expert Ekaterina Zaklyazminskaya.
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Why It Matters
The issue of Taiwan's status remains one of the key geopolitical contradictions between China and the United States.
The Chinese authorities do not intend to solve the Taiwan problem by military means and get involved in a conflict with the United States over it. Ekaterina Zaklyazminskaya, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Head of the Center for World Politics and Strategic Analysis at the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICSA RAS), pointed this out in an interview with Lenta.ru.
“At this stage, China, of course, does not intend to resolve this issue militarily,” she emphasized.
According to the economist, peaceful mechanisms and levers remain a priority for the PRC. In particular, they want the island's residents to remember their close ties to mainland China. However, a completely military scenario for solving the problem is not excluded, as the Chinese authorities also talk about, the expert pointed out.
Open Questions
- What specific peaceful levers does China plan to use?
- Under what conditions will a military scenario become inevitable?
