Toward Decline
How Would China Actually Govern Taiwan?
Why it matters
China's scholarly consensus on Taiwan governance—explicit PLA stationing, armed-forces disbandment, and three-to-five-year quasi-military rule post-unification—reveals a maturing coercive-reunification strategy that could lower kinetic escalation risk but increase pressure on Taiwan via institutional/political means. This directly affects Australia's alliance calculus with the US and Taiwan, the regional security architecture, and the probability of a Taiwan crisis requiring AUKUS response.
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