Written by Margaret Lewis. What a difference a decade makes. Pandas are not the focus of the #10YearChallenge, in part perhaps because a 5-year-old panda
Category: International relations
China’s Greatness and Taiwan’s Vulnerability
Written by Edward Friedman. Recent threats by the CCP Supreme Leader Xi Jinping to use force in order to annex Taiwan have focused attention on
Motion Without Movement: The Latest (Non-) Developments in Cross-Strait Relations
Written by June Teufel Dreyer. No Taiwan president has an easy job balancing pressure from China on unification with domestic pressures from those who advocate
Xi Jinping’s Speech Fails to Deliver what the People of Taiwan Want
Written by Bonnie S. Glaser. On January 2, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered his first speech focused exclusively on policy toward Taiwan. The occasion for
Contrasting the ‘Ethnic’ with the ‘Indigenous’: exploring different depictions of the ‘other’ in Taiwan.
Written by David O’Brien Recently I had the pleasure of a few days in the beautiful, chilled-out Taitung, Taiwan’s self-described “most indigenous city”. Taitung County
China’s Meddling in the 2018 Taiwan Local Election
Written by Yu-Hua Chen. Taiwan completed its nine-in-one local election on 24 November 2018, which ended up with a historical defeat of the ruling Democratic
The Results of US Midterm Elections and Its Implications for Taiwan and Cross-Strait Issues
Written by Elizabeth Freund Larus With the hotly contested over, all eyes are on the incoming 116th Congress. What do the US midterm election results imply
Taiwan an opportunity for peace
Written by Gerrit van der Wees. Professor Graham Allison of Harvard University got it wrong, again! In a November 9th article in the WorldPost, a partnership
Midterm elections in the US and Taiwan
Written by Gerrit van der Wees. As the results of the US mid-term elections are just being analyzed, Taiwan is preparing for its own mid-term
Can technological innovation development in China out win Taiwan?
Written by Chun-Yi Lee. In the early 1990s, Taiwanese electronic factories in China acted as a ‘teacher’ for most of the domestic Chinese manufacturers. This
Heading South: Co-sharing as Taiwan’s niche strategy
Written by Mei-Chih Hu and Hsien-Chen Lo. In 2016, Taiwan’s government launched the New Southbound Policy aimed to establish long-term economic ties between Taiwan and
The Need to Speak Out: Taiwan’s Contribution in International Forums
Written Alan H. Yang, Jeremy Chiang & Sherry Liu Taiwan’s forum diplomacy has kicked into high gear in recent years, with non-governmental sectors playing an increasingly important
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