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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s recent trip to Asia offers some insights into how the Trump administration might deal with China.
The frenzied response to this year’s most examined courtesy call played right into Beijing’s hands.
‘Little trick’ or ‘petty action’? The difference matters when translating what China really said about Trump’s call with Tsai Ing-wen.
Some will be hoping that Trump’s phone call with Taiwan’s leader was a wrong number.
If the 2016 presidential candidates are anything to go by, Taiwan’s relationship with Beijing could be in for a major defrost.
This is the final contribution to a five-part series of field notes covering the background dynamics and global significance of last Saturday’s fiercely fought ‘nine-in-one’ elections in Taiwan. The great…
Taiwan’s opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has won an unprecedented landslide victory in the country’s local elections. The ruling Kuomintang (KMT) won only one of Taiwan’s six largest “special…
Are political developments in Hong Kong heading for a second Tiananmen massacre? A fortnight ago, partly to provoke discussion, partly to sound an alarm, I suggested in a radio interview that unless the…
How do we move beyond being a cultural tourist to having some deeper level of understanding of what local festivals mean to the people involved? That question has been on my mind of late. Just before midnight…
Typhoon Soulik struck Taiwan at the beginning of the weekend, killing two people before moving on into Guangdong in southern China, where 300,000 people have already been evacuated. Classed as a category…
As noted by the Prime Minister’s White Paper on Australia in the Asian Century, managing the opportunities presented by the profound changes underway in the Asia‑Pacific is a major challenge for all regional…
It is clear that Taiwan shares much in common with Australia. It is an island in the Pacific with a population of 23 million people, a population of indigenous people with a long history, and is a country…
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