Seoul Reports Beijing’s Mandarin Imperiousness to WTO
April 1, 2017 6 min. read

In response to Beijing’s recent economic retaliations over the deployment of THAAD, Seoul raised the issue of trade agreements violations at a WTO meeting.

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South Korea’s Strategic Importance Forgotten Amidst the Trump-Abe Honeymoon
March 5, 2017 6 min. read

While the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye paralyzed South Korea’s diplomatic service, Japan has worked to strengthen Trump’s commitment to its defense.

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Taiwan’s President and Pro-China Opposition Leader both Plan U.S. Visits
January 6, 2017 5 min. read

Tensions between Taiwan and mainland China will come to the U.S. this month, just in time for Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States.

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Japan’s Defense Minister Visits ‘War Crimes Shrine’ Following Pearl Harbor Trip
December 30, 2016 4 min. read

The visit sparked anger among the country’s neighbors—particularly China and South Korea—that suffered under Japanese occupation during World War II.

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Seoul’s Aggressive Plan to Combat Illegal Fishing
November 8, 2016 3 min. read

Waters are heating up again in Asia, as Chinese fisherman came under fire last Tuesday some 92 kilometers southwest of South Korea’s Socheong Island.

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Rodrigo Duterte’s Pivot to China
November 7, 2016 8 min. read

For Duterte, it is better to solve an Asian geopolitical problem with “no foreign forces”, limiting talks from one “Asian neighbor to another”.

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Tsai Ing-wen and the Need to Balance Cross-Strait Relations
October 11, 2016 5 min. read

President Tsai needs more creative ways to maneuver between Taiwan’s domestic calls for independence and Beijing’s pressures to endorse the 1992 Consensus.

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Shanghai Communist Party Boss Met with Protest in Taipei
August 30, 2016 4 min. read

Faced with the seemingly impossible task of “winning hearts and minds” in Taiwan, mainland leaders continue to live in a world of make-believe.

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Legacies of General MacArthur’s ‘Peace Constitution’ still Matter in East Asia
August 20, 2016 9 min. read

Post-war Japan’s constitution was an avant-garde collage of high-edge liberal democratic universal norms that revolutionized an outmoded governance system.

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China Tragically Out of Touch with Taiwan and Hong Kong
July 15, 2016 6 min. read

China’s relations with Taiwan and Hong Kong seem to grow worse by the day, and for this it is hard to blame anyone but mainland China.

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Tsai Administration Faces New Tensions With Beijing
July 14, 2016 8 min. read

Tensions between Taipei and Beijing have risen again: China announced the decision to suspend official communications in response to Taiwan’s decision not to embrace the “One-China policy.”

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