China Exploring the complex China-Taiwan relationship January 25, 2019 0 Written by Daouda Cissé. In November 2015, the meeting between Ma Ying-Jeou - then president of Taiwan and leader of the Kuomintang (KMT) - and…
International Relations The New Southbound Policy: Tsai’s Soft Power Alternative November 13, 2017 0 Written by Mariah Thornton. During the presidential debate of 2016, then Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Tsai Ing-wen boldly posited: ‘When the maintenance of our diplomatic…
Taiwan The politics of Chinese spouses in Taiwan December 24, 2015 0 Written by Lara Momesso. While most of the discussion on Taiwan's presidential and parliamentary elections has focused on the two main parties, the KMT and the…
Taiwan Why the KMT is going to lose December 23, 2015 0 Written by Jonathan Sullivan. It is not news that DPP presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen is heading for victory on January 16. She has enjoyed a…
Taiwan Seven Predictions for Tsai Ing-wen’s first term December 22, 2015 1 Written by Michael Turton and C. Donovan Smith. 1. Ma’s China Economic Policies will continue The Ma Administration has pursued policies of economic engagement with…
Taiwan The Wang Controversy is a Symptom of KMT Sclerosis December 9, 2015 0 Written by J. Michael Cole. After the disaster that was Hung Hsiu-chu, the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) initial pick for presidential candidate, it was expected…
Taiwan Taiwan 2016 December 7, 2015 0 Written by Jonathan Sullivan. For a race where one candidate, the DPP’s Tsai Ing-wen, has enjoyed a seemingly unassailable 20 point lead over her rivals…
Taiwan What’s at stake in the Xi-Ma meeting? November 4, 2015 0 Written by Michael Reilly. Not surprisingly, the general international reaction to the announcement that Xi Jinping and Ma Ying-jeou will meet in Singapore this weekend…
Taiwan Does Beijing Believe Its Own Official Line On Taiwan? October 16, 2015 1 Written by J. Michael Cole. Hardly a meeting between officials from the two sides of the Taiwan Strait goes by without the Chinese side waxing…
Taiwan Taiwan’s Pan-Blue Camp is at War with Itself October 7, 2015 0 Written by J. Michael Cole. Something rather extraordinary occurred outside the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) headquarters in Taipei on 7 October as hundreds of angry…
