October 18, 2023 - 14:18
    Duplicity was President Richard Nixon’s preferred tactic in dealing with domestic opposition to his China Policy. On the one hand, as I wrote in these pages last March (“The Governor and the Generalissimo”), Nixon deputized California Governor Ronald Reagan to meet...
May 14, 2023 - 14:29
  Mon, Mar 20, 2023 page8    On Taiwan: The Governor and the Generalissimo I don’t want to suggest that there currently are any secret undertakings between the Biden Administration and Xi Jinping’s (習近平) regime. I would only caution that secret understandings and...
May 14, 2023 - 14:17
Qin Gang, Song Tao and ‘Special Agent Diplomacy’     by John J. Tkacik      Mon, Jan 16, 2023 page 8 In 1988, young Comrade Qin Gang (秦剛) did not graduate from the China Foreign Affairs University (外交學院), China’s training academy for diplomats. He...
January 14, 2023 - 17:07
Mon, Dec 05, 2022 page 8 Three Pillars of America’s Taiwan policy, or maybe four By John J. Tkacik  Jr.   As all are aware by now, United States policy toward Taiwan is guided by three canonical texts: the Taiwan Relations Act, the Three Joint Communiques, and the Six...
January 14, 2023 - 17:03
  Editorials Mon, Oct 17, 2022 page8 On Taiwan: “Walking-Back” President Biden’s Taiwan Policy? By John J. Tkacik, Jr. In the clandestine services they used to say, “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time, it is enemy action.”...
October 22, 2023 - 20:04
Did US fighter jets escort Speaker Pelosi to Taiwan?  Monday, August 22, 2022  page 8   By John J. Tkacik     Taipei Times readers may not have noticed, but for several days at the beginning of the month, there was a considerable amount of American jet fighter activity...
June 30, 2022 - 17:19
    Taipei Times    Editorials Monday, Jun 27, 2022 page 8 On Taiwan: American ‘policy’ versus Chinese ‘principle’   Ned Price, spokesperson of the United States Department of State, is a Twitter influencer at the exalted “celebrity/...
May 7, 2022 - 16:41
  https://taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2022/03/17/2003774918 Editorials Thu, Mar 17, 2022 page8   Commemorating Shanghai, Narnia By John J. Tkacik Jr. On Monday, February 28, 2022, the Department of State press spokesman addressed a question relating to “...
May 7, 2022 - 16:31
    https://taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2022/05/02/2003777547   Home   Editorials Mon, May 02, 2022 page8 On Taiwan: ‘John Foster Dulles and the Fate of Taiwan’   “John Foster Dulles and the Fate of Taiwan” by James C.H....
January 26, 2022 - 17:09
  The American Constitution and recognizing Taiwan Taipei Times Mon, Dec 20, 2021 page 8 Let me pose a question: What if President Biden were to exercise his exclusive constitutional authority and issue an explicit White House statement that “the United States does not now recognize,...

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