Dangerous imbalance on Taiwan
The year is 2015. During a routine patrol over the Taiwan Strait, two Chinese Su-30MKK pilots, known for their ‘hot-dogging,’ cross the median line, which for years has served as the unofficial divider...
View ArticleWhy giving up Taiwan will not help us with China
Subscribe to the Asian Outlook series. Why Giving Up Taiwan Will Not Help Us with China Download PDF Maintaining constructive relationships with both Beijing and Taipei is a perpetual challenge for...
View ArticleTaiwan Inc.: A home for global business
Executive Summary Taiwan, Inc.: A home for global business Download PDF With the signing of its economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with China in the rearview mirror, Taiwan now has an...
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Taiwanese hard power: Between a ROC and a hard place
Download the PDFKey points in this Outlook:Over the past decade, the cross–Taiwan Strait military balance has shifted in favor of the Chinese military.Taiwan’s efforts to meet that challenge have been...
View ArticleTwo countries, two systems
For years, China’s friends in the U.S. have argued that it was only a matter of time before the inevitable happened: Taiwan would unify with China under the formula of “one country, two systems.”...
View ArticleUS Taiwan policy threatens a face-off with China
Taiwan celebrates its National Day on Friday commemorating the 103rd anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising, which eventually brought down the Qing Dynasty and led in 1912 to the creation of the Republic...
View ArticleChinese check: forging new identities in Hong Kong and Taiwan
At the time of Hong Kong’s election for its next chief executive in 2017, first-time voters, having been born two years after the 1997 handover, will have known nothing but Chinese rule. When Taiwan’s...
View ArticleFive lessons from Taiwan’s elections
The ruling Kuomintang party (KMT) suffered a “thumpin” in Taiwan’s recent regional and municipal elections. Early indications point to one of the more decisive victories by the Democratic Progressive...
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Mr. Ma meets Mr. Xi
Apparently, when President Ma of the Republic of China (aka Taiwan) meets President Xi of the People’s Republic of China (aka Communist China) in Singapore this coming Saturday, they will avoid the use...
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US can play a ‘Taiwan card’
Taiwan’s elections have returned the Democratic Progressive Party to power. Rolling over the incumbent Kuomintang (KMT) nationalists, the DPP won both the presidency and a legislative majority, giving...
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China-Taiwan tensions are rising. How Obama responds is critical
China and Taiwan are locked in a spiraling controversy over conflicting concepts of “citizenship,” with enormous implications both for them and the United States. The timing of the dispute is...
View ArticleTaiwan’s new leader must be ready to act
The inauguration of Tsai Ing-wen on Friday as Taiwan’s president represents both continued success for the island democracy and potential new dangers for its 23.5 million citizens. Domestic economic...
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Trump’s Taiwan call wasn’t a blunder. It was brilliant.
Relax. Breathe. Donald Trump’s phone call with the president of Taiwan wasn’t a blunder by an inexperienced president-elect unschooled in the niceties of cross-straits diplomacy. It was a deliberate...
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Trump and Taiwan: Let’s make a deal?
Editor’s note: The next president is in for a rough welcome to the Oval Office given the list of immediate crises and slow-burning policy challenges, both foreign and domestic. What should Washington...
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Trump’s new China policy: Deja vu on amphetamines - ChinaTaiwan relations - AEI
Editor’s note: The next president is in for a rough welcome to the Oval Office given the list of immediate crises and slow-burning policy challenges, both foreign and domestic. What should Washington...
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China just shoved Taiwan. Will America push back? - ChinaTaiwan relations - AEI
When push comes to shove, what kind of friend will Trump’s America be? This is the question that has been on the minds of US allies and partners (and adversaries) since November 8 of last year. There...
View ArticleGTI Annual Symposium 2017: Panel three - ChinaTaiwan relations - AEI
On Thursday, September 14th Global Taiwan Institute (GTI) held its inaugural annual symposium titled “Upgrading US-Taiwan Relations for the 21st Century.” The symposium, which was attended by over 150...
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Trump, Taiwan: calling China’s bluff - ChinaTaiwan relations - AEI
In the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), there are a number of notable measures regarding US defense cooperation with Taiwan. Two mandated ones are “normalization” of arms sales to the...
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The F-35: How Taiwan could really push back against China - ChinaTaiwan...
For the first time, an American National Security Strategy (NSS) explicitly mentions Taiwan. The NSS includes a commitment to “maintain our strong ties with Taiwan in accordance with our ‘One China’...
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Can China stop wars once they start? - ChinaTaiwan relations - AEI
You don’t have to look hard to see that tension between the United States and China is rising. The National Security Strategy calls China a revisionist power that is “contesting [U.S.] geopolitical...
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