On September 30, 2020, Global China Hub nonresident senior fellow John K. Culver published an article in Lowy Institute’s The Interpreter, “The Unfinished Chinese Civil War”.
“In many instances, the principal target of the CCP threats and military demonstrations during periods of tension (typically around a Taiwan election cycle) was to put pressure on the US to constrain Taiwan rather than act directly on Taiwan itself,” Culver writes.