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September 10, 2019 - 16:36
The Anti-TRA: China's Anti-secession Law and the impact on U.S. Relations with Taiwan.
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Taiwan Relations Act Entering Its 30th Anniversary:
Continuities, Changes, and Challenges
March 14, 2009
Institute of European and...
September 10, 2019 - 15:38
Hong Kong’s ‘Bauhinia Revolution’
Mon, Aug 19, 2019 - Page 6
My good friend Professor June Dreyer at the University of Miami calls it Hong Kong’s “Bauhinia Revolution,” a cognate of Taiwan’s “Sunflower Revolution” of 2014. I agree...
July 15, 2019 - 14:35
The "strong" Jiang-Putin stance on North Korea is an illusion
by John Tkacik
When it comes to judging Russia's and China's value as strategic players in international affairs, the world media -- and even professional diplomats in the Administration -- see what they want to...
July 15, 2019 - 14:52
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http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2019/07/15/2003718678
On Taiwan: The US places Taiwan among Indo-Pacific democracies
Mon, Jul 15, 2019 - Page 6
History is in the making. East Asia is on the cusp of a great-power transition. Like Japan of the 1920s, China...
June 17, 2019 - 15:52
The New Southbound Policy and China’s ‘united front’
Mon, Jun 03, 2019 - Page 6
On Friday last week (May 24), I was pleasantly surprised when the State Department’s senior diplomat for East Asia and the Pacific, acting Assistant Secretary W. Patrick Murphy,...
May 23, 2019 - 15:07
President Tsai and Taiwan’s sovereignty
Mon, Apr 29, 2019 - Page 6
Here in Washington, D.C., the Taiwanese-American community is heavily sympathetic to the Democratic Progressive Party. The rivalry for the DPP upcoming presidential nomination has evenly divided them, with many dissatisfied...
April 25, 2019 - 11:43
I don’t know if anyone, inside or outside Taiwan, wants another paean to the US’ Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) on its 40th birthday on April 10. However, it pains me, as a young US foreign service officer assigned to human rights duties on the Taiwan desk at the US Department of...
April 16, 2019 - 13:51
Mao Zedong’s ‘warlord’ jokes
Mon, Mar 25, 2019 - Page 6
Four decades ago, in September 1979, when I entered duty on the State Department’s “Taiwan Coordination Staff,” my departing predecessor pointed me to a stack of black loose-leaf binders in the...
March 6, 2019 - 16:30
After 40 years, AIT officers should be Senate-confirmed
Mon, Feb 11, 2019 - Page 6
In my never-ending research into the history of America’s relationship with Taiwan, my thoughts drift back 40 years to February 1979, a cold and snowy month which threatened to cool the Congress...
December 25, 2018 - 19:04
It is a delightful paradox when you think about it now: before 1979, Taiwan had a permanent population, secure borders, effective government and sovereign foreign relations, the four attributes of a “state as a person in international law.” But, alas, the United States did not recognize...
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