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October 8, 2021 - 16:01
https://taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2021/09/20/2003764650
Taipei Times
On Taiwan: ‘Taipei’ or ‘Taiwan’? TECRO’s rectification of names
Mon, Sep 20, 2021 page6
by John J. Tkacik, Jr.
WASHINGTON: It is...
August 31, 2021 - 18:18
Memorandum
February 3, 1961
To: L - Mr. Chayes
From: L/FE - John J. Czyzak
Subject: Legal Status of Formosa (Taiwan) and the Pescadores Islands (Penghu)
L/...
August 31, 2021 - 18:40
“War Means Taiwan Independence”?
By John J. Tkacik, jr.
I was a bit startled last week when Legislative Yuan Speaker You Si-kun (游錫堃) suggested that the United States could extend official recognition to an independent Taiwan if China were to launch an invasion....
August 31, 2021 - 18:46
The Offshore Islands and Taiwan’s Future
By John J. Tkacik, Jr.
Over the past year, scores of gargantuan Chinese sand dredgers have deployed themselves in territorial waters off the Taiwanese-administered Matsu Islands where their activities erode beaches and fishing shoals...
May 11, 2021 - 14:10
The last half century of Taiwan’s ‘unsettled’ status
By John J. Tkacik
Taipei Times
Monday April 26, 2021
Page 6
In the excitement over last week’s Biden-Suga Summit in Washington, it was easy to forget — if you ever knew — that April 28th is...
May 11, 2021 - 14:20
On Taiwan: The New Formosa Strait Crisis
I am just getting around to reading Dr. Chang Hsien-yi’s (張憲義) oral history published in 2016 entitled Nuclear Bomb! Spy? CIA (核彈! 間諜? CIA). Dr. Chang’s defection to the Central Intelligence Agency 33 years ago is one of...
March 3, 2021 - 17:08
On Taiwan: China’s 2021 demands
Taipei Times Mon, Jan 04, 2021 page 6
The Chinese always test incoming American presidents. George W. Bush had his “EP-3 Hainan Incident” (he announced an US$8 billion arms package for Taiwan); Obama had his “USNS...
March 3, 2021 - 17:21
Taipei Times
Mon, Nov 16, 2020 page 6
On Taiwan: Recognizing Taiwan: Is the United States looking at a ‘Somaliland Model’?
“Taiwan has not been a part of China, and that was recognized with the work that the Reagan administration did to lay out the...
September 29, 2020 - 16:09
https://taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2020/09/28/2003744198
Taipei Times
Editorials
Mon, Sep 28, 2020
page 6
Lunch in the afternoon: The US, Taiwan and ‘China’s aggressive behavior’
Midday in Manhattan on Wednesday, September 16, was sunny and mild. Even...
September 29, 2020 - 16:14
The last time I spoke with President Lee Teng-hui was thirteen years ago next week, on Friday morning, August 24, 2007. We conversed for nearly two hours one-on-one, not surprisingly, about Taiwan’s nationhood and its international legal status, subjects on which he undoubtedly...
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