Masahiro Matsumura is professor of international politics and national security at the faculty of law of St. Andrew's University in Osaka and a Taiwan Fellow at the Taiwan Center for Security Studies in Taipei.
Island's identity politics holds back shift away from traditional posture

Taiwanese troops on a combat readiness drill at a base in Taitung in January:. The island on its own will never be able to survive a full-scale Chinese invasion. © Reuters
Masahiro Matsumura is professor of international politics and national security at the faculty of law of St. Andrew's University in Osaka and a Taiwan Fellow at the Taiwan Center for Security Studies in Taipei.