What You See Is (Not) What You Get? The Taiwan Question, Geo-economic Realities, and the "China Threat" Imaginary

Antipode

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1348-1373

  Lim, Kean Fan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capitalist realism; China threat; Geo economic; Geopolitics; Taiwan Relations Act; United States

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; GEOPOLITICS; NATION STATE; TERRITORIALITY;

CHINA; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864941406     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00943.x     Document Type: Article

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