Asia The China Factor in Taiwan’s 2020 Election and Beyond January 9, 2020 0 Image credit: 104年11月7日 馬英九總統出席兩岸領導人會面 by 總統府/Flickr, license CC BY 2.0 Written by T.Y. Wang. Taiwan’s citizens will go to the polls on 11 January 2020 to elect their next…
China Declining Taiwanese identity? February 8, 2019 3 Written by T.Y. Wang. The results of Taiwan’s 2018 local elections shocked the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and came as a surprise to some.…
China The Cross-strait Relations 2019: Promoting vs. Rejecting Unification January 27, 2019 0 Written by Dongtao Qi The dynamics of the cross-strait relations in 2019 have been revealed by Taiwan and mainland China’s top leaders’ speeches in the…
China Taiwan, Prospects for 2019 January 26, 2019 1 By Gerrit van der Wees Taiwan got an auspicious start for the New Year 2019: on the first day of the year, President Tsai Ing-wen…
China China’s Greatness and Taiwan’s Vulnerability January 23, 2019 0 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…
China Motion Without Movement: The Latest (Non-) Developments in Cross-Strait Relations January 22, 2019 0 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…
China Xi Jinping’s Speech Fails to Deliver what the People of Taiwan Want January 21, 2019 0 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…
Taiwan Taiwan an opportunity for peace November 26, 2018 0 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…
Taiwan The significance of the Sino-Vatican agreement October 12, 2018 0 Written by Alexandre TM Chen. The reports on the progress of Sino-Vatican dialogue often fill up pages in press coverage since the last two years.…
Taiwan The U.S. reaction to El Salvador’s recognition of the PRC October 5, 2018 0 Written by Steven Goldstein. El Salvador became the latest country to sever relations with the Republic of China on Taiwan and recognize the People’s Republic…