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 Xi and Taiwan’s Tsai – the Opening Salvoes in 2019 January 25, 2019 0 Written by Kerry Brown For a leader imputed with such huge powers by the rest of the world, we often lose sight of the fact…
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…
China Xi Jinping’s Message to Compatriots in Taiwan Signals Change in Taiwan Policy January 24, 2019 0 Written by Elizabeth Freund Larus. Xi Jinping’s January 2ndMessage to Compatriots in Taiwan, in which China’s leader called for unification under a “one country, two…
China The Cross-Strait #10YearChallenge January 23, 2019 0 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…
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…
Asian Century Chinese and American dreaming: The Road or The Wall? January 16, 2019 2 Written by Michael A. Peters. Richard Rorty, the American pragmatist, suggested that Walt Whitman and John Dewey provided a narrative re-crafting of the American Dream…
Belt and Road Initiative China and Japan – an unlikely climate partnership? December 13, 2018 0 By Chris G. Pope. On 7 October 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report which focused on the devastating impacts of a…
