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Showing posts with label US foreign policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US foreign policy. Show all posts
Saturday, January 14, 2017

What will Trump do? + Links

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A small shrine tucked away in a field NYTimes reports that  Taiwan moves to shore up its central american friends , but the really omino...
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Saturday, December 19, 2015

Rupert Hammond Chambers excellently responds to criticisms of the Taiwan Arms Deal

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Interior of a Buddhist temple near my house. This is from The Nelson Report of 12/18. Note the last paragraph, which makes the same argu...
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Monday, July 27, 2015

Hegemonic Warfare Watch: The Case of Charles Glaser Worried

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Planting rice north of Taichung. I say to you againe, doe not call up Any that you can not put downe; by the Which I meane, Any that can...
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Saturday, June 06, 2015

Tsai Ing-wen Rocks DC

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Gravel operations on the Lili River. DPP Presidential candidate and Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen's visit to the US went very well. Enjoy ...
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Friday, May 22, 2015

Remarks from State: Taiwan: A Vital Partner in Asia

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Lunch at a Thai restaurant on the road. Taiwan: A Vital Partner in East Asia Remarks Susan Thornton Deputy Assistant Secretary, Burea...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2015

Nelson Report: Taiwan Bid to join AIIB = TPP leverage?

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An abandoned strongpoint keeps watch over the coast. Two interesting items here. First, the Nelson Report, the Washington Insider report...
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Friday, April 17, 2015

Hugh White in Straits Times issues primer on how not to write about the Taiwan Issue

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Indonesian maids with their charges I'm off biking for a few days this weekend. So expect light blogging.... Hugh White in the Str...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Robert Sutter Rocks on China

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Danger lurks behind every leaf. Robert Sutter, the longtime US government Taiwan specialist, nails it in a brilliant piece saying, essen...
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Sunday, June 22, 2014

US Experts Throw Beijing a Helping Hand

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Camouflage expert. In the Washington-Tokyo-Taipei-Beijing quadrangle, one of Beijing's most important strategic goals is to transfer...
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Tuesday, June 03, 2014

Just a note on the Senkakus/Diaoyutai mess

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Oops. Jon Sullivan over at the U of Nottingham tweeted round this paper on the Senkakus/Diaoyutai and western and eastern systems of in...
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Monday, February 24, 2014

Another problem with ending strategic ambiguity

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Taiwan currently controls Pratas Island (Dongsha) and Taiping island, the largest of the Spratlys.  Map source . Lately calls for ending...
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Friday, September 20, 2013

BLAST FROM THE PAST: Globe and Mail, 1982

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A friend sent this around, in case you were wondering what the official US stance on Taiwan is.... The Globe and Mail (Canada) Ju...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

US Arms Sales vs China's Military Build Up

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A delicate damselfly. Two counterpoints in the Taipei Times today. First, longtime Taiwan supporter Randy Shriver, speaking at a co...
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Wednesday, August 07, 2013

UPDATED: Hegemonic Warfare Watch: Taiwan, pivotal or not?

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Catholic facility in Tanzih, probably aimed at the large population of Filipino workers in the nearby export processing zone. With wh...
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Thursday, May 16, 2013

State Department Brief May 15, Taiwan section on Phils/Taiwan clash

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A walkway along a section of the old Hengchun city wall. State Department Daily Press Briefing, May 15, 2013 . Main questioner, I he...
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