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BACKGROUNDER: Time for Washington to Take a Realistic Look at China Policy
China Pulls at Bush's Three Pillars
Originally appeared in the Asian Wall Street Journal on December 5, 2003
Taiwan Must Grasp on True Defense Needs
Published on December 3, 2003 in Defense News
John Tkacik
Needed: A Realistic Look at China Policy
Published on December 2, 2003
Taipei Personality - Staring Down the Dragon
Appeared in The New York Sun on October 31, 2003
by John Tkacik, Jr.
Technology Transfer from Taiwan to China: Is there a Risk?
Technology Transfer from Taiwan to China: Is there a Risk?
by John J. Tkacik, Jr.
For two decades, American foreign policy operated on the premise that trade with China would have an inevitable liberalizing effect. This persisted after the Tiananmen crisis, and even after the 1996 Taiwan Strait missile crisis when Beijing attempted to intimidate Taiwanese voters from casting ballots for President Lee Teng-hui. It was at the foundation of Clinton's China policy and apparently undergirds the Bush policy as well.
2002: Parsing the U.S.-Taiwan "Alliance"
The U.S.-Taiwan Alliance: Who’s in Charge?*
by John J. Tkacik
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Why the Department of Homeland Security Should Control Visas
There is universal agreement in the Administration that the U.S. consuls abroad who adjudicate visa applications for foreigners and hopeful immigrants are among those on the first line of defense against global terrorism.1 The visa system in place on September 11 failed in this responsibility, allowing many of the terrorists to enter the United States unnoticed and bearing genuine visas.2
Gathering Clouds: One Country, Two Systems Isn't Working
By John J. Tkacik
Hong Kong has now been part of China for five years and only a few of the dire predictions of economic malaise and political suffocation that were so widespread among international pundits before 1997 have come true so far. But there are worrying signs of trouble ahead.
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