The Motivation of Diplomatic Switch of Selected States Newly Recognizing China Within the China-Taiwan Rivalry

The Motivation of Diplomatic Switch of Selected States Newly Recognizing China Within the China-Taiwan Rivalry

People's Republic of China

Taiwan

the China-Taiwan relationship

the China-Taiwan rivalry

motivation of states

recognition of states

non-economic motivation

The recent considerable loss of many of Taiwan’s diplomatic allies remainsunchanged. The authors of the article focus on the period between 2016and 2018, when the People’s Republic of China (PRC) established itsdiplomatic ties with Taiwan’s former allies such as Gambia, Burkina Faso,the Dominican Republic, Panama, São Tomé and Príncipe and El Salvador.The aim is to explore whether the diplomatic transition was the outcome ofdollar diplomacy alone, or if there were further motivations influencing therecognition process. The diplomatic overturn was analysed within six casestudies with a specific focus on the non-economic motivations. Inconclusion, the authors found out that the examined cases are di!erentfrom each other – in terms of not only the motivations themselves but alsothe ‘levels’ of these motivations. In most of the cases, it was possible todetect at least one significant non-economic motivation for the diplomaticswitch.

Rod, Zdeněk

Himmer, Michal

Czech Journal of International Relations; Vol. 55 No. 3 (2020); 50-68

2788-2993

2788-2985

10.32422/mv.55.3

Institute of International Relations Prague

2020-09-01

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0

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