Taiwan-China Cross-Strait Tensions

China Has No Right to Threaten to Take Taiwan by Force

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Now, Taiwan is under increasing threat of attack from its neighbor China. Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who assumed his precedent-breaking third term this year, has made it his mission to so-called unify with Taiwan. But what is the basis for China’s territorial claim over Taiwan? Julian Ku is an expert in constitutional and international law. He is Hofstra University Vice Dean and Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law at the university’s Maurice A. Dean School of Law. Ku tells TaiwanTalks host Yin Khvat that under international law, China has no right to say Taiwan is an “internal matter” and has no legal basis to threaten Taiwan with force. Ku is Hofstra University, Vice Dean, and the university's Maurice A. Dean School of Law and Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law.