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Asian Sub Spending Spree Raises Risks Of Mistakes, Escalation
For more than a decade, Asian countries have been on a submarine spending spree. Some countries are updating obsolete vessels while others are purchasing submarines for the first time. This trend has...
View ArticleChina ‘Won’t Bow To US Pressure And Is Ready To Fight To The End’ If A Trade...
China has insisted that it will not succumb to US pressure to change its industrial policy nor offer major concessions on the bilateral trade deficit. A Chinese government official close to the...
View ArticleDecades Of Being Wrong About China Should Teach Us Something
Today, as policy makers and commentators confidently assert that trade wars are easy to win or that hot wars with China are either impossible or inevitable, the experience of being proved wrong again...
View ArticleChina At 70 Faces Three Challenges: Taiwan, The US And Hong Kong. Can Xi...
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Beijing is busy preparing for this momentous occasion, carefully planning which weapons to display in the annual...
View ArticleXi Singles Out Hong Kong, Macau And Taiwan As Major Risks For Chinese...
Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan have been singled out by Chinese President Xi Jinping as major risks and challenges that Communist Party members must “struggle against”. In a speech to officials on...
View ArticleWhen It Comes To China, Local And National Priorities Don’t Always Align
The security, economic and social rationale of both central and municipal governments are understandable. However, this difference of interests on China between a capital and local governments is a not...
View ArticleTsai Ing-Wen Re-Elected As Taiwan President As Rival Concedes Defeat
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen won a second term on Saturday with a victory over Han Kuo-yu, in an election that had been cast as a referendum on the island’s approach to Beijing. Tsai, from the...
View ArticleHong Kong Ensnared In U.S.-China Showdown
The Trump administration’s declaration that the United States no longer considers Hong Kong autonomous from China, given Beijing’s increasingly aggressive policies there, could pave the way for...
View ArticleThe Shape Of Asia’s New Cold War
China’s decision to demolish the “one country, two systems” arrangement in Hong Kong appears to be a fait accompli, and in fact seems to have been preordained. Viewed in a broader context, the move...
View ArticleChina’s Tightening Grasp In The South China Sea: A First-Hand Look
China has taken advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has been dominating headlines around the world, to reinforce its grasp on the South China Sea. While Western media is now preoccupied by the...
View ArticleIs Taiwan The Next Hong Kong?
A tepid U.S. reaction could leave Beijing with the impression that it can proceed with relative impunity on other contentious issues in Asia. The shadow of Taiwan looms large in this context.Unless the...
View ArticleTaiwan Shows How To Carefully Snip Chinese Economic Ties
After keeping its society and economy running throughout the coronavirus pandemic, squashing the outbreak, and donating millions of face masks to many countries, Taiwan has earned a lot of positive...
View ArticleUS-China Tech War: Battle Over Semiconductors, Taiwan Stokes Trade Feud
A spiralling tech war between the United States and China has reinvigorated Beijing’s ambitions for semiconductor independence in recent months and turbocharged efforts in Washington to thwart its...
View Article“Preparing for War”: What Is China’s Xi Jinping Trying To Tell Us?
The U.S. military is already strapped for resources trying to police the Indo-Pacific, and this is peacetime. If the United States lost a sizable fraction of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and affiliated...
View ArticleTaiwan’s Tsai Must Pursue India Cautiously
It appears to be the perfect time for Tsai to press Modi on closer ties, but she must be cautious, for however much New Delhi might be watching Beijing’s actions with concern, India still stands to...
View ArticleTrump’s Foreign Policy Legacy Is His Ability To Balance Chaos In Asia
Trump’s facilitating an alliance with India and arming Taiwan as a frontier state against a rising China will be his defining legacy, a strategy that will likely continue even if Joe Biden wins the...
View ArticleUS Admiral’s Undercover Visit To Taiwan Certain To Annoy China
The US has sent an Indo-Pacific Command intelligence officer to Taiwan on an unannounced visit that is certain to irk Beijing. Analysts said the visit of Rear Admiral Michael Studeman, director of...
View ArticleLeave Donald Trump’s Triumphant Taiwan Policy Alone
Joe Biden should follow the course set by Donald Trump; there should be no U-turn based on naive hopes that goodwill can temper President Xi Jinping’s growing and increasingly impatient desire to...
View ArticleTaiwan And The Ghosts of History
It may be that in today’s world, when a superpower conflict could destroy much of mankind, China and the US will avoid a war over Taiwan. But the two sides are engaged in a game of chicken, which can...
View ArticleChina Has No Intention Of Walking Away from Its Claims On Taiwan
China has no intention of walking away from its claims on Taiwan. The election of pro-independence Tsai Ing-wen as Taiwan’s president in 2016 and her re-election in 2020 has only added another element...
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