The US Strategic Pivot to Asia and Cross-Strait Relations Economic and Security Dynamics

The rise of China as a powerhouse of the world economy not only caused many countries to deepen their economic integration with, but also face the challenge of, increasing assertiveness from China.While most Asian countries want good relations with both the U.S. and China, they need the U.S. to pledge security commitments to check China's hegemonic expansion. Under such circumstances, the American 'Pivot to Asia,' has become an important foreign policy measure to reassure its allies that it will strive to keep peace and stability in the region, crucial elements to economic dynamism.

Peter C. Y. Chow is Professor of economics at the City University of New York, USA. He was a contractual consultant for the World Bank and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His main interests are in trade and development in late industrialized countries with a focus in Asia and Pacific countries.

Foreword; Michael Yuhuda
PART I: THE ROLE OF TAIWAN STRAIT IN THE U.S. STRATEGIC PIVOT TO ASIA
1. Introduction; Peter C.Y. Chow
2. Taiwan's Narrowing Strait: A Triangular Analysis of the Taiwan's Security Since 2008; Lowell Dittmer

3. An Indispensable Pillar of Obama's 'Pivot' to Asia: Continuing Strategic Ambiguity across the Taiwan Strait; Dean Chen

4. America's Pivots to Asia and Taiwan Strait Crises; Edward Friedman
PART II: ECONOMIC-SECURITY NEXUS AND CHINA'S RESPONSES
5. The Unwelcome Return: China Reacts to the U.S. Strategic Pivot to Asia; Yong Deng

6. US Rebalancing: Implications for Taiwan's Security and Stability across the Taiwan Strait; Scott L. Kastner

7. The TPP and the Pivot: Economic and Security Nexus; Tun-Jen Cheng, Peter C.Y. Chow

8. The U.S.-China Economic Relations: Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership; Chien-Pin Li
PART III: RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT OF CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS AMID U.S. PIVOT TO ASIA
9. Why Taiwan? ROC Leaders Explain Taiwan's Strategic Value; Steven Phillips

10. Taiwan's Geo-Strategic Significances: From the Past to U.S. Contemporary Pivot Strategy; York Chen

11. Reflections on China's Military Trajectory and the U.S. Pivot; Richard D. Fisher, Jr.

12. Pacific Pivot, Taiwan Fulcrum : Maritime Taiwan and Power Transition in Asia; John J. Tkacik, Jr.