By Thomas Jandl China’s peaceful rise is over. Beijing’s recent aggressive behavior in the oceans to its south and east give the lie to the previously cultivated narrative. China’s claims to vast stretches of open water are not grounded in…
The push by President Ma Ying-jeou’s government for Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan to ratify the Cross-Strait Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) has sparked increasing opposition in the form of what has been dubbed the Sunflower student movement. TISA serves as a…
By Bonnie Glaser & Jacqueline Vitello Discussions between Presidents Obama and Xi on the margins of the nuclear security summit in The Hague were dominated by pressing issues such as Russia’s annexation of Crimea, persistent use of cyber by the…
By Victor Cha Vladimir Putin is a threat to Asia. Let me explain why. His invasion of Georgia in 2008 and now Ukraine are blatant acts of aggression. Placing troops in Crimea is a violation of the sovereignty of another…
By Jacqueline Vitello As the United States attempts to persuade China to join the West in the fight for Ukraine’s future, China continues to do what China does best: hedge its bets. Beijing has made few significant statements on the…
By Nicole White Rapprochement between China and Taiwan has dominated cross-strait headlines in the last two months, and the topic looms large as a factor in upcoming party elections. Expectation of a three-way race between incumbent Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)…
The debate over Taiwan’s sovereignty and status as a nation-state or part of China is being rekindled with Taiwan’s recent loss of formal diplomatic ties with Gambia, one of the few countries that recognized Taiwan as an independent country. In…
By Sam Brothers & Joshua Archer In 2012, Asian states spent more on defense than European states for the first time in modern history, with both arms sales to Asia and Asian defense budgets rising substantially. What role do arms…
By Kaelyn Lowmaster On August 9, Mayor Chen Chu of Kaohsiung, Taiwan’s largest municipality, embarked on a six-day visit to four cities in mainland China. Mayor Chen is a leading member of Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the pro-independence opposition…
By Jieming Chu & Nicole White On June 21, mainland China and Taiwan signed a Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), promising to open up certain service sectors on either side of the Taiwan Strait to increase investment and trade. The…