Taiwan

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  3/29/2023
  

  Do Subtle Shifts in China's References to Divided Korea Signal Pragmatism on Taiwan?

  by Hu Ping and Perry Link

  In seeking to navigate Beijing's seeming intransigence on recognizing Taiwan, the United States can look to the PRC's subtle shift in rhetoric: it has stopped including divided Korea as a comparison to an unacceptable "two China" policy and categorized it as "one country, two governments," suggesting steps toward pragmatic acceptance. 

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• SOURCE: The China Project
  12/7/2022
  

  The 1979 Formosa Incident Sparked Taiwan's Democracy Movement

  by James Carter

  An explainer of the wave of protests that began on December 10, 1979, that disrupted the one-party authoritarian rule of the Kuomintang in Taiwan.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  11/21/2022
  

  The US-China Relationship: Why It Collapsed, How it Can Be Fixed

  by Jake Werner

  The split between the US and China precedes the leadership of Biden, Trump, and Xi, as politicians in both countries have increasingly come to see the others' prosperity as a threat. Solving the split requires looking to the problems of global market capitalism that exacerbated the rift. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  10/11/2022
  

  Don't Forget about the Nuclear Danger over Taiwan

  by Michael Klare

  Ukraine isn't the only potential nuclear flashpoint. The United States and China need to begin negotiations to limit the risk around the conflict over Taiwan's status. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9/21/2022
  

  Biden's Taiwan Rhetoric Risks Antagonizing China For No Gain

  by Stephen Wertheim

  The United States' "One China" policy is ambivalent, awkward and dissatisfying. But it's served to prevent a destructive war for decades. Biden's recent comments threaten to destabilize the arrangement. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/25/2022
  

  Biden's Remarks on Taiwan are Potentially Dangerous Provocation to China

  by Stephen Wertheim

  In itself, Biden's statement about defending Taiwan doesn't raise any possibilities that the Chinese military hasn't already considered. But it does threaten the American posture of "strategic ambiguity" that underlies diplomatic discussions. 

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• 6/13/2021
  

  A Celebrity Apology and the Reality of Taiwan

  by Evan Dawley

  Actor John Cena's blunder into the Taiwan-China controversy should be an opportunity for Americans to learn more about the history of this conflict and of an independent Taiwanese identity that has been shaped by Japanese colonization, Chinese nationalism, war, and the Communist revolution. 

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• 6/6/2021
  

  John Cena's Taiwan Controversy Recalls Richard Nixon's Biggest Mistake

  by Justin Coffey

  John Cena's recent social media kerfuffle over Taiwan reflects the legacy of Richard Nixon's acquiescence to a "One China" policy advanced by the People's Republic, in hindsight the worst error of his presidency.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/22/2021
  

  Risk of Nuclear War Over Taiwan in 1958 Said to Be Greater Than Publicly Known

  Daniel Ellsberg disclosed a page from a 1966 study of the 1958 Taiwan Strait crisis that indicate many military leaders were anticipating the necessity of using nuclear weapons to defend Taiwan against the People's Republic of China. 

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• 5/17/2020
  

  Who Can Learn From Taiwan? Apparently not WHO

  by Keith Clark

  The World Health Organization is unable to effectively learn from Taiwan's response to COVID-19 because the agency adheres to a "One China" policy that doesn't recognize both the People's Republic of China and Taiwan. 

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• SOURCE: NYT
  2-26-17
  

  Taiwan Commemorates a Violent Nationalist Episode, 70 Years Later

  In 1947, up to 28,000 Taiwanese were massacred by Nationalist troops, and Taiwan and China are reckoning with the legacy.

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• SOURCE: NY Review of Books
  2-13-17
  

  The True History of Fake News

  by Robert Darnton

  The concoction of alternative facts is hardly rare, and the equivalent of today’s poisonous, bite-size texts and tweets can be found in most periods of history, going back to the ancients.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  12-27-16
  

  High School Students in Taiwan Staged a Nazi-Themed Parade. It Wasn’t Received Well

  The school has now pledged to strengthen Holocaust awareness by screening films like Schindler’s List.

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• 12-18-16
  

  Trump’s Gambit with Taiwan Is a Monumental Blunder

  by Andrew Meyer

  If Mr. Trump insists on calling Beijing's bluff he will quickly find that they are not bluffing. War could result.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  2-3-16
  

  Letters from Taiwan’s White Terror victims are released

  The victims had been accused of spying for communist China by Taiwan’s authoritarian government.

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• 10-27-15
  

  The Washington DC Embassy that’s Larger than the Size of the White House Compound

  by Steven Knipp

  And not officially an embassy. Why? It’s Taiwan’s.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  7-21-15
  

  Taiwan Has Its Own Textbook Controversy Brewing

  Critics say the new history curriculum is an attempt to appease Beijing and sway Taiwanese youth toward unification.

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• 3-22-15
  

  While the World Wasn't Looking, Crisis-Prone Taiwan Had A Political Revolution

  by Jeff Roquen

  Is the United States Appeasing China and Hoping No One Will Notice?

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• SOURCE: Want China Times
  11-25-13
  

  Historian: Taiwan can use WWII legacy to improve standing with China

  Chiang Kai-shek can still teach a few lessons.

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• Much Ado about Islands

  by Gavan McCormack

  Credit: Wiki Commons.This article is a condensed version of a longer essay which appeared in JapanFocus.More than six decades from the San Francisco Treaty that purportedly resolved the Asia-Pacific War and created a system of peace, East Asia in 2013 remains troubled by the question of sovereignty over a group of tiny, uninhabited islands. The governments of Japan, China, and Taiwan all covet and claim sovereignty over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands.The islands, known in Japanese as Senkaku and in Chinese as Diaoyu, are little more than rocks in the ocean, but they are rocks on which there is a real prospect of peace and cooperation in the region foundering.The Long View