Inconsistent reports on whether Taiwan was mentioned or not at the Trump-Xi summit earlier this month illustrate the need to distrust media reports and to generally be more deeply skeptical of comments about Taiwan by either the Trump or Xi administrations...
Though world may have awaited with baited breath the first meeting between recently-inaugurated US president Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping at Trump’s Florida club Mar-a-Lago which occurred last week, reports coming out of the two-day event indicate an almost entirely conventional summit with no major surprises. Nevertheless, uncertainty still looms large for Taiwan...
Condemnation by Taiwan over the possibility of a new US-China communique after Donald Trump's upcoming meeting with Xi Jinping is indicative of the Tsai administration’s shifting view of the Trump administration...
Looking back on American secretary of state Rex Tillerson’s visit to Asia and meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping, one observes that verdicts were sharply divided in critical evaluations...
After period of silence which had been regarded by some as a sign of hostility, US president Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping conducted their first phone call as heads of state on Thursday, February 9th...
Rodrigo Duterte, the recently elected president of the Philippines, brought his brazen anti-American rhetoric to its logical conclusion this week with his proclamation before the People’s Congress in Beijing that he would be ending his country’s alliance with the United States and would be switching his partnership to China. What are the implications for Taiwan?...
Recent news that KMT chairperson Hung Hsiu-Chu will be visiting China next month, with a likely meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping to take place, is not surprising...
