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November 12, 2019 - 15:26
(CHAPTER FOR DANA DILLON BOOK – AMERICA’S CHALLENGE IN ASIA]
One China, One Taiwan?
Is there only one China? Are there two? Is the government of one China seated in Beijing and the other in Taipei? Or perhaps Taiwan is wholly independent...
November 12, 2019 - 15:48
On Taiwan:
A New "Trump Doctrine on China and Taiwan?
Mon, Nov 11, 2019 - Page 6
Whew! Last month, the Chinese foreign ministry whacked both Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the most solemn terms! The Vice President, it seems, “intentionally...
October 31, 2019 - 15:32
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Hegemony, Alliances and Power Transition in Asia: China’s rise, America’s “Pivot” and Taiwan’s Choice
by John J. Tkacik
East Asia and the Western Pacific are now in a geopolitical “power transition” with the United States as...
October 21, 2019 - 16:56
The Unhappy Isles of Oceania
Mon, Sep 30, 2019 - Page 6
Although the international news media seem to think otherwise, it would be a mistake to see Taiwan’s loss this month of two Pacific Island diplomatic partners, the Solomon Islands and Kiribati, as driven by Beijing’s...
September 10, 2019 - 15:36
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 - 14:38
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 - 13:35
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 - 13:52
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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 - 14:52
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 - 14:07
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...
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