As of September 2025, relations between China and Taiwan remain in a state of ‘managed tension’. China has reiterated the ‘One China’ principle, defining Taiwan as an ‘inseparable territory’, and has intensified military and diplomatic pressure on Taiwan independence forces. Since September, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has continuously violated Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), employing ‘gray zone’ tactics. The pace of air incursions, exceeding 300 per month as of August, has been sustained into September.
Ph.D. CHO HYEON GYU is a retired colonel and is currently a professor and Dean of international affairs of Shinhan University, the head of the China Center of the Korea Defense Diplomatic Association, and a policy advisor to the Ministry of National Defense. He is a recipient of the Order of Merit for National Security. He served as a visiting professor at Fu Dan University in China. He majored in Chinese at the Korea Military Academy and the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, holds a master's degree in international politics and complete a doctorate at Renmin University of China. He earned a doctorate in international politics from Dankook University(Dissertation topic : “A Study on the China's Military Reform in the Xi Jin Ping Era”).