Taiwan The ‘United Front’ Unveiled: Through The Looking Glass on Cross-Strait Relations April 17, 2014 0 Written by Ben Goren. In a ground-breaking paper in the Journal Of Current Chinese Affairs entitled The KMT–CCP Forum: Securing Consent for Cross-Strait Rapprochement, André…
Politics In Defense of the Sunflower Movement April 9, 2014 7 Written by J. Michael Cole. Aside from shedding light on a poorly crafted and potentially harmful services trade pact with China, Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement has performed…
Politics Occupy the Legislature: Is it the only way? March 19, 2014 2 Written by Gary Rawnsley. You know something important is happening in Taiwan when the island is in the BBC news. Well ok, perhaps current events…
Elections Thailand’s intractable crisis of political community February 17, 2014 0 Written by Carlo Bonura. Reflecting on Thailand’s political crisis over the last two months, many foreign observers have questioned the democratic credentials of the protest…
Elections Boycotting Thailand’s Elections: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly February 10, 2014 0 Written by Thomas Pepinsky. Thailand’s political crisis shows no signs of abating in the wake of its recent elections. Careful analyses by longtime observers such…
Hong Kong The Fallacy of CCP-designed “universal suffrage” February 3, 2014 0 Written by Zaijun Yuan. Hong Kong people have been struggling for genuine universal suffrage for decades. As for selecting Chief Executive, Article 45 of The…
Hong Kong Integration and Adaptation: Contrasting Hong Kong with Macao January 29, 2014 0 Written by Shiu Hing LO. Since the return of Hong Kong’s sovereignty from Britain to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on July 1, 1997…
Hong Kong Hong Kong political discourse and its metaphors January 27, 2014 0 Written by Jennifer Eagleton. 2014 sees the 30th anniversary of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, the document that sealed the end of British rule in Hong…
Economy China Continues Its Grand Experiment November 15, 2013 2 Written by Zhengxu Wang. The Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee closed its Third Plenum on Tuesday, an event eagerly anticipated by the public and press.…
Economy Democracy, Property Rights and China June 2, 2013 0 Written by Niv Horesh. In the early 20th century, Max Weber's influential theories led Western scholars of both leftist and conservative leanings to argue that…
