Pax Mercatoria in the Taiwan Strait? FeaturingDr. Ho Szu-yinProfessor, Tamkang University Friday, January 18, 2013 10:30 AM -12:00 PM1111 19th Street NW, 12th Floor Since Taiwan and the PRC embarked upon their current path of rapprochement in 20 …
Since Taiwan joined the World Trade Organization in 2002, it has signed only one trade pact with a major trading partner — the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement with China. At the same time as Taiwan’s neighboring countries are gearing up to si …
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Substantial progress has taken place in cross-Strait economic relations and in reducing military tensions since Ma Ying-jeou took office in Taipei last May. While adhering to their respective positions on sovereignty, Ma and PRC leader Hu Jintao have b …
Former American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) managing director Barbara Schrage’s recent remarks expressing doubt that Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson and prospective presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) is capable of handling cross-str …
By Yeh-chung Lu, Associate Professor, Department of Diplomacy, National Chengchi University – East Asia Program Visiting Fellow Maritime security has become a salient issue since 2010, as disputed sovereignty and resource claims in the Asia Pacific reg …
Hong Kong’s demonstrations for fully-fledged democracy have had little effect on the people of Taiwan, including in the local elections last month that saw a sea change in Taiwan’s political make-up, American scholars agreed at a forum on Tuesday. Alan …
Taiwan’s ruling Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) suffered a major defeat in this year’s local elections, in what was widely viewed as a referendum on KMT governance under President Ma Ying-jeou. Alan Romberg, distinguished fellow and directo …
The government of President Xi Jinping is conducting “one of the harshest” Chinese campaigns against civil society and peaceful dissent in the past decade, according to a prominent human rights activist. The campaign has come amid the pro-d …
The secretary-general of Taiwan’s main opposition Democratic Progressive Party, Joseph Wu, recently said in Washington that the Nov. 29 local elections in Taiwan were not a referendum on the Ma Ying-jeou administration’s policies related to China. Howe …
Washington, Dec. 3 (CNA) China is likely to take a stronger position on Taiwan following the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party’s victory in the Nov. 29 local government elections, U.S. experts said Wednesday. -snip- Alan Romberg, director o …
US experts have begun considering possible developments in the future of cross-strait relations… that’s in light of the ruling Kuomintang’s (KMT) massive defeat in Taiwan’s recent municipal elections. Some commentators say the …
Ma Ying-jeou is having a bad week. Taiwan’s President went into this weekend’s local elections battered, his approval ratings low. Then on Saturday his party, the ruling Kuomintang (KMT), got thoroughly trounced, losing ground across the is …
WASHINGTON–The United States will continue to improve its relations with Taiwan after Taiwan’s local elections concluded Saturday, according to a scholar at the Washington -based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Bonnie Glaser, a …
China could just take Taiwan by force with its 2.29 million troops and 2,800 aircraft, ending debate about whether the democratic, self-ruled island is part of Chinese territory. But that move would park an enraged, rebellious population just offshore …
Alan Romberg’s latest China Leadership Monitor article, “Cross-Strait Relations: Portrayals of Consistency. Calm on the Surface, Paddling Like Hell Underneath” While in reality adjusting to an evolving situation both on Taiwan and in cross-St …
By Emily Szu-hua Chen: When Chinese President Xi Jinping returned from his visit to South Korea in early July — with an agreement from South Korea to sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) by the end of 2014 — some in Taiwan raised the alarm about Tai …
The timing was ominously weird. A day before tens of thousands took to the streets in Hong Kong to press for universal suffrage, an affront to Beijing’s more authoritarian rule, Chinese President Xi Jinpingsuggested that staunchly self-ruled …
There may be a new round of US arms sales to Taiwan next year, it was predicted on Friday at a Washington conference on cross-strait relations. Experts refused to speculate on just what might be sold, but sources outside the conference said it was unli …
Rather than airing internal differences over a proposed freeze of the DPP charter’s independence clause at the July 20th DPP National Party Congress, Tsai Ing-wen sent the freeze proposal to the party’s Central Executive Committee for consideration. Ta …
But the lack of big protests doesn’t mean that more Taiwanese want closer ties with China, analysts say. “The best one could say is that a muting of protests would reflect a maturing of attitudes in Taiwan, and a greater willingness to listen and to ex …
The director of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, Zhang Zhijun, will visit Taiwan this week. He is the most senior People’s Republic of China (PRC) official to visit the island since Chiang Kai-shek fled there in 1949, and he comes to reciprocate a visit …
The president of Sao Tome and Principe, a small nation off the coast of Africa, is presumed to be traveling in China this month. As ordinary as that sounds, the visit by the leader of a diplomatic ally of Taiwan has set off sirens in Taipei’s foreign m …
Alan D. Romberg’s latest essay, “Sunshine Heats Up Taiwan Politics, Affects PRC Tactics,” will appear in the forthcoming issue of China Leadership Monitor. In Taiwan this spring, domestic political developments attracted more attention than those …
Taiwan’s discontent runs deeper than cross-strait trade pact This semester, Reggie Wang, a senior at Soochow University in Taipei, has been studying Taiwan’s fast-thawing relations with the island’s old foe, the mainland. Outside of class, the 23-year- …
DPP denies report of pressure from US AIPEI, Taiwan — The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday refuted hints from local media that United States officials have been exerting pressure on the party regarding its role in the ongoing student prote …
Taiwanese students protest trade pact with mainland China TAIPEI, Taiwan — As students occupied Taiwan’s legislative chamber Sunday for a sixth day to protest a free-trade agreement with China, President Ma Ying-jeou denounced the takeover as a threat …
Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) and other Chinese Communist Party leaders are concerned about what might happen if the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) wins Taiwan’s 2016 presidential election, a leading US analyst said. In a paper that might help …
Alan D. Romberg’s latest essay, “From Generation to Generation: Advancing Cross-Strait Relations,” appears in the latest issue of China Leadership Monitor. When PRC leader Xi Jinping met with the Taiwan’s former vice president, Vincent Siew, …
China, Taiwan Progress Will Take Time WASHINGTON – China and Taiwan, at odds for more than six decades, have taken a symbolic step forward with the highest level talks since the end of China’s civil war in 1949. But significant reconciliation between t …