How China Dictates the Rules of the Game
Recently, news coverage of Asia has focused on Donald Trump’s trade war against the People’s Republic of China (PRC)....
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
How China Dictates the Rules of the Game
A nation must think before it acts.
Taiwan
The Taiwan Travel Act: Only as Important as Trump Makes It
A seemingly innocuous bill—one that allows senior U.S. officials to travel to Taiwan and vice versa—was passed by unanimous...
A Weapon Without War: China’s United Front Strategy
Less headline-grabbing than China’s military advances and expanding economic reach is China’s united front activities, which have become an...
Parsing Xi Jinping’s Statements on Taiwan at the 19th Communist Party Congress
On Wednesday, October 18, President Xi Jinping of China opened the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 19th Party Congress with...
U.S.-China Relations: An Uncertain Balance
Professor deLisle began his presentation on what he referred to as one of the world’s most important bilateral relationships...
The First Hundred Days: Trump Meets Asia…and Reality
The first 100 days of a president’s term—the “honeymoon period,” during which his power and influence are believed to...
Mar-a-Lago: The Summit that Wasn’t
Palm Beach heaved a collective sigh of relief as Chinese President Xi Jinping’s plane lifted off from the county...
Donald Trump is No Friend of Taiwan
When President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan called then-President-elect Donald Trump, it should have been the beginning of a beautiful...
Taiwan’s White Terror: Remembering the 228 Incident
Though a vibrant and thriving democracy today, the Republic of China (Taiwan) was once a nation plagued with corruption,...
Trump’s Asia Policy Takes Shape
After challenging the “One China” policy—the bedrock of Sino-American relations—during his transition period, President Donald Trump accepted the long-standing...