Taiwan and Post-Communist Europe examines Taiwan's economic
diplomacy towards post-communist states in Central and Eastern
Europe. The media, and occasionally academia, have often suggested
that Taipei resorts to costly aid, trade and investment diplomacy
to facilitate its foreign relations, whilst China engages in
equally costly counter-economic diplomacy to keep Taiwan isolated.
Czeslaw Tubilewicz argues conversely that Beijing's diplomacy in
post-communist Europe has demonstrated China's reluctance to employ
economic instruments against states violating the 'one-China'
principle when cheaper (diplomatic) alternatives are available.
Taipei, for its part, has demonstrated that promises of economic
assistance are sufficient to induce target states' short term
compliance, whilst in the medium to long term Taiwanese economic
assistance, conditional upon meeting political criteria, has proved
inconsequential due to Taipei's refusal to follow up aid
commitments.
This book examines the efficacy and limitations of Taipei's
frugal economic diplomacy in furthering its broader diplomatic
objectives, looking at both Taipei's failure to establish a lasting
diplomatic presence in post-communist Europe, but also its success
in securing 'substantive' relations with a number of major
post-communist states, and thus opening transition economies for
its exports and investments. The first in-depth study into Taiwan's
economic diplomacy toward post-communist Europe, this book will
appeal to readers interested in Taiwan and China studies,
diplomacy, Asian studies and international relations.
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