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One Taiwan: Taiwan’s 2020 Elections Explained
In an unambiguous rebuke against Beijing’s sacred “One China” principle, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen won a…
The Solomon Islands, Taiwan, and the Politics of…
As more and more American politicians begin to hit the road in preparation for the 2020 presidential elections, one…
The Slow Death of China’s Dialects
While older generations continue to use dialects in their everyday life, many young people have never received any…
What China Fears Most: An Island On Their Coast
The democratic composition of Taiwan is a cause of alarm for the CPC since the CPC seeks to repel any democratic…
Engaging Taipei: The Taiwan Travel Act
On March 16, 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump signed the Taiwan Travel Act. The bill supports high-level visits…
Sharp Edges of a Broken Glass Ceiling: Women in…
Both cultural barriers and structural gender discriminative policies are interwoven in a way that systemically…
The Renegade General
General Tso’s chicken is a popular Chinese dish found throughout North America, however, the dish just like its…
Yin and Yang: China’s Rise and the Future of the…
Rise of China:
China is a rising revisionist power, seeking to realign the status quo in the Pacific…
Commitment Issues: Trump’s New Asian Foreign Policy
Then president-elect Donald Trump’s personal phone call with Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-Wen was one of the…
The Phone Call that Shook the Sino-American Status Quo
On December 2, 2016, one of the largest breaks from conventional U.S. foreign policy shook the world in the form of…
South China Sea: The Stand-Off Explained
Rodrigo Duterte, the current President of the Philippines, recently stated the country will no longer challenge…
One Way Ticket to Beijing: Taiwan in a Globalized-China…
A China Southern plane touched down at the airport in Nanjing, China on Tuesday, September 20; on board were 63…