International Relations What Brings the US and Taiwan Close Together? August 21, 2019 0 Written by Yu-Hua Chen. Image credit: President Tsai arrives in the United States by the Office of the President, Republic of China/Flickr, license CC BY…
China Threats and Opportunities for Taiwan in the Trump and Xi Era August 19, 2019 0 Written by Joel Atkinson. Image credit: Donald Trump by Gage Skidmore/Flickr, license: CC BY-SA 2.0 With so much going on, it is a daunting task…
Asia A delicate balancing act in South Asia July 22, 2019 0 Written by Muhammad Nawaz Khan. Image Credit: Global Panorama/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Relations between Pakistan and Russia have a troubled history of divergence that intensified during the…
China From alliance to trade war: The role of China’s ‘American Hands’ in the formation of Sino-US relations July 1, 2019 0 Written by Hao Chen. Image Credit: Members of the Fourth Marine Regiment Drum and Trumpet Corps in China, circa 1930 by USMC Archives/Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. On 13…
China Is China’s cyber-espionage a military game-changer? May 7, 2019 0 Written by Andrea Gilli and Mauro Gilli. According to an internal Navy review, China has the U.S. Navy “under cyber siege,” and Navy suppliers and contractors struggle to…
North Korea The Hanoi Summit: Ruined by over-ambitious hard bargaining? March 21, 2019 0 Written by Liang Tuang Nah. From 27–28 February 2019, US President Donald Trump met with North Korean leader Chairman Kim Jong-un in Vietnam's capital Hanoi…
Asia-Pacific The illusion of personal diplomacy: Can Trump outsmart Kim in Hanoi after disappointment in Singapore? February 27, 2019 0 Written by Peter J. Li. The U.S.-North Korea (officially the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, DPRK) relations are arguably the most intractable of America’s foreign…
Africa China in Africa and the American response February 5, 2019 0 Written by Tom Harper. China’s engagement with Africa appears to be causing headaches in Washington. After two decades of neglect, American interest in the African…
Asia-Pacific Antipathy in Sino-American relations: Will it disappear after Trump’s trade war? January 17, 2019 0 Written by Anthony H.F. Li. Since Donald Trump’s election as President of the United States in 2017, Sino-American relations seem to have reached their nadir.…
China The new triangular relationship between the US, China and Latin America January 15, 2019 0 Written by Enrique Dussel Peters. 2018 will probably be remembered as the beginning of the ‘trade war’ between the Trump Administration and China involving steel,…
