Geopoliticus January 18, 2018 Déjà Vu All Over Again: China Re-Opens Flight Route M503 On January 4, the People’s Republic of China announced the opening of four new flight routes over the Taiwan... Read more »
Geopoliticus November 28, 2017 Spared a War: Abe’s Victory and Japan’s Rearmament I made my genuine Thanksgiving on October 27. The occasion was Mr. Abe’s crushing victory in the Japanese election;... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 13, 2017 Taiwan Loses Another Ally In another blow to Taiwan’s ever-shrinking list of diplomatic allies comes the news that Panama has severed ties with... Read more »
Geopoliticus March 20, 2017 Taiwan’s Ex-Presidents: A Carousel of Legal Problems On March 14, the former president of Taiwan, Ma Ying-jeou, was charged with leaking classified information related to a... Read more »
Geopoliticus March 9, 2017 Trump, Tsai, and the Three Communiques: Prospects for Stability in US-China-Taiwan Relations The Shanghai Communique of 1972 and the U.S.-China Joint Communiques of 1979 and 1982 have been essential foundations of... Read more »
Geopoliticus January 4, 2017 Stopover Hysteria: Understanding Tsai’s Stopover in the United States Photo credit: The Office of U.S. Senator Marco Rubio On January 7, President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan will embark... Read more »
Geopoliticus November 14, 2016 Desperate for Attention: Hung-Xi Meeting Lacks Meaning On November 1, 2016, Hung Hsiu-chu, chairwoman of the Kuomintang (KMT), met with Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the... Read more »
Geopoliticus October 31, 2016 [Taiwan] Is Not Made In China Recent incidents continue to demonstrate how the People’s Republic of China is attempting to isolate Taiwan from the international... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 22, 2016 Taiwan’s Summer of Dire Straits The summer of 2016 has proven to be a brutal one for the people, president, and pocketbooks of Taiwan.... Read more »
Geopoliticus May 17, 2016 Influencing China Since President Nixon’s historic meeting with Chairman Mao Zedong in 1972, the U.S. – China relationship has developed into... Read more »