Signals, Threats, and Deterrence: Alive and Well in the Taiwan Strait

Authors

Glenn R. Butterton, University of Miami School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1997

Abstract

Taiwan held its first democratic presidential elections in March 1996, which motivated mainland China to stage large scale contemporaneous war games in the Taiwan Strait and aim unusually belligerent rhetoric at Taipei. The United States responded by deploying substantial naval forces in the area. After examining this confrontation between China, Taiwan, and the United States in terms of the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, international law, and non-nuclear deterrence theory, the author presents a novel analysis of indirect deterrence communication between the United States and China

Recommended Citation

Glenn R. Butterton, Signals, Threats, and Deterrence: Alive and Well in the Taiwan Strait, 47 CATH. U. L. REV. 51 (1997).