“Taiwan: All Politics, All the Time” by Alan D. Romberg is in the China Leadership Monitor, No. 19, Fall 2006. The China Leadership Monitor is sponsored by the Hoover Institution on War, Revolusion, and Peace at Stanford University. Recent developments …
“The Taiwan Tangle” by Alan D. Romberg is in the China Leadership Monitor, No. 18, Spring 2006. The China Leadership Monitor is sponsored by the Hoover Institution on War, Revolusion, and Peace at Stanford University. On 27 February 2006, Taiwan’s pres …
Recent Developments in Taiwan: Politics in Command–But at What Cost? Alan D. Romberg This article originally appeared on PacNet Newsletter published by Pacific Forum/CSIS on February 14, 2006. Recent statements by Taiwan President Chen Sh …
The East Asia-China program has published a three-volume set of Director and Senior Associate Alan Romberg’s writings on cross-Strait relations over the past six years. Originally published online by the Hoover Institution, these volumes provide a thor …
In this occasional paper for the Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies in Taipei, Alan D. Romberg discuss the developments in the cross-Strait relations in the aftermath of March 2004 presidential election in Taiwan. 2004 Election of Ta …
This is an address given by Alan D. Romberg at the SAIS China Forum on March 10, 2004. The coming election in Taiwan could constitute an important turning point for the future cross-Strait relations and US policy. The issue lies in the tension between …
In this opinion piece that originally appeared CSIS PacNet Newsletter and then was reprinted in The Asia Times, Alan D. Romberg discusses recent developments in Taiwan and US policy toward Taiwan. A brief synposis appears below. …
No: Bush rightly rebuked Taiwan for recklessly tilting toward independence In this excerpt taken from the January 19, 2004 edition of Insight on the News, Alan Romberg discusses President Bush’s recent stance toward Taiwan President C …
We are asked to address the key political and diplomatic factors in political and security relations among the U.S., Taiwan and the PRC and why those factors are important; what diplomatic trends and developments will influence those relations, …
With regards to U.S. policy towards the Taiwan Strait, Alan Romberg argues that the important point is to determine U.S. interests and to be consistent. That consistency may not always be comfortable for Americans in political or other terms. …
In this analysis on relations between the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan, Alan Romberg argues that both sides of the Strait are focusing on creating stronger economic relations. Nonetheless, the ways in which both sides address economi …
The American entanglement with Taiwan is rooted in events going back over fifty years. In this paper, Alan Romberg reviews some of those events, beginning with President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s insistence at Cairo in November 1943—reaffirmed at Potsdam …
Presented to the Stimson Center/CNA NMD-China Project on January 17, 2002 Mulvenon asserts that the China-Taiwan-U.S. triangle of asymmetric capabilities, dominance and fervor, fosters a dangerously unstable environment in the Taiwan Strait, making esc …
As George W. Bush campaigned for the presidency during the year 2000, and as he settled into office in the first months of 2001, he and his team sought to distinguish themselves from Clinton Administration policies in a variety of areas. N …
While America and China were drawn together thirty-five years ago by shared strategic imperatives, the Taiwan issue still stood as the paramount obstacle to full diplomatic -normalized- relations. Because of its domestic and international complexity fo …
There is a well-known history of enmity and even war between the United States and China in the decades immediately following the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. Still, by the early 1970s American China specialists and some other …
Ranjeet K. Singh, ed. May 1999. This report explores how China and Japan might better employ confidence-building measures (CBMs) as part of their security policies, and suggests ways that CBMs can be used to help resolve disputes in the South China Sea …