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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The Other China: Will the ECFA Be the End of Ma if Taiwanese Don't 'Choose Right…'
May 20, 2011 7 min. read

Firstly, an update to my previous post concerning Chinese Cyber-Espionage attacks on the U.S. and other developed nations.  AP national writer, Pauline Arrillaga, did a much broader write-up on the issue, here.  It is definitely worth a look-see. ———————————————————————————————————– On to the Other China, Taiwan – Current Taiwanese President, Ma Ying-Jeou (Mă Yīngjiŭ: 马英九) of […]

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News from the "Other China" – ECFA
March 3, 2011 7 min. read

Two years ago, I wrote a long post discussing the political and economic relationship between Mainland China (People’s Republic of China) and Taiwan (Republic of China) ahead of  the implementation of the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA).  The ECFA was signed on June 29, 2010, in Chongqing, PRC, and went into effect on September 12 […]

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Cross-strait Overtures
June 2, 2009 4 min. read

Cross-strait relations between the Chinese mainland and the Republic of Taiwan have made significant progress with an extension of goodwill to Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which strives for Taiwanese independence. Earlier this month, Kaohsiung municipality Mayor Chen Chu became the highest ranking DPP official to have set foot on the mainland. Not only is […]

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