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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Disputed Islands and Clashing Powers: Explaining Sino-Japanese Tensions
September 30, 2016 10 min. read

Ties between China and Japan remain tense after having deteriorated over a territorial dispute in the East China Sea, a result of Beijing’s assertiveness in the region.

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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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Kang Shen and the CCP from an IR Perspective
June 28, 2016 7 min. read

Kang Sheng was part of the first generation of international relations specialists in communist China and the designer of the “China–USSR Grand Debate”.

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Mao Revisited
January 17, 2014 7 min. read

Xi Jinping at the Steamed Bun Shop by Tutou Jueren (“Stubborn Baldy”) The Chinese Communist Party has a long tradition of using its state media as a tool to maintain its legitimacy and control its masses through party propaganda.  While ancient China also used propaganda, Chairman Mao Zedong was the first Chinese leader to successfully […]

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How China Should React to North Korea
April 19, 2013 6 min. read

Years of patient diplomatic efforts by China with its belligerent neighbor North Korea seemed to be coming to an end on Saturday, following Beijing’s public announcement of an agreement with the U.S. on ridding North Korea of nuclear weapons. The action comes after last Sunday’s early warning shot by China’s President and CCP Secretary General […]

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China’s Princelings and the CCP
December 10, 2011 3 min. read
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If you are one of the few to hold a high place in the Chinese Communist Party life has to be good. You are running one of the world’s greatest powers and you don’t have to worry about elections next Fall, or the next Fall, or the…However, there is one major hangup to being part […]

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And the Heir Apparent is…Xi Jinping?
October 29, 2010 5 min. read

It has been eight years since the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCPs) first peaceful transfer of power, an act which heralded Hu Jintao’s ascension to China’s highest positions of power. Xi Jinping Once again China embarks on a change of helmsmen.  On October 18th of this year, Mr. Xi  Jingping (习近平)was selected for the position of […]

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