ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case study of China’s efforts to coerce Taiwan short of war, including during the 1995–1996 “Third Taiwan Strait Crisis,” the 1999 crisis, and China’s military activities targeting Taiwan and, to a lesser extent, the United States, during a period of acute tensions between 2020 and 2022. These three sequential case studies trace the process of political and military events leading to China’s use of military signaling in each instance to elucidate the goals and motivations behind China’s use of military exercises, patrols, and other demonstrations of force directed at Taiwan.
