Comments made by US President Donald Trump during an interview on Fox News, shortly after his summit in Beijing with Chinese President Xi Jinping, unusually echo China’s language on Taiwan. Likewise, Trump again suggests that arms sales to Taiwan are up for negotiation...
Elbridge Colby, who is currently Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in the Trump administration, is again in the news. In particular, Colby has come under scrutiny as the responsible party for halting arms shipments to Ukraine...
With the Trump administration having now been in office for around one month, the spillover effects on Taiwanese domestic politics are being felt in a number of ways...
Over the past few days, much of the world has been fixed on the spectacle of the resurgent Taliban taking provincial capitals across Afghanistan, eventually sweeping the capital of Kabul. It may not be surprising that there has been a wave of discussion of how Taiwan relates to this series of events, if at all. Many of these responses have been sharply divided...
On June 15th, 2021, the Society for Sinophone Studies issued its Statement in Solidarity with Palestine. The academic organization joins the unprecedented wave of transnational scholars who recognize and oppose the targeted and systematic dispossession, confinement, and forcible separation of Palestinians by the State of Israel, which Human Rights Watch has condemned as guilty of the crimes against humanity that constitute apartheid...
For organizers in Taiwan, the DPP’s commitment to justice must be questioned alongside any vision of transitional justice that fails to engage with the role of the US in propping up the authoritarian Chiang Kai-shek regime. Likewise, contrary to popular belief, American political support for Taiwan, similar to American support for Israel, is a deeply bipartisan position...
The Trump administration’s shift in a pro-China direction seems likely to hasten the movement of Asia Pacific countries away from America under the Trump administration...
