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Since the pineapple ban in 2021, halting imports of Taiwanese goods has become a staple in Beijing’s cross-strait playbook.
China has again hit Taiwanese products with export bans – this time, on fishery products such as squid, fourfinger threadfin, Pacific saury, and skipjack tuna, as well as a (...)
Beijing, in the first two weeks of August, on top of conducting a war drill against Taiwan to protest the visit to the island by Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the United States House of Representatives, released a White Paper on the Taiwan issue to update its one China policy and its offer to (...)
ADMIRAL MICHAEL GILDAY, who heads US naval operations, recently raised eyebrows with comments at an Atlantic Council event suggesting that China’s timeline for an invasion of Taiwan could be shorter than the 2027 window previously suggested by now-retired Admiral Philip Davidson, who made (...)
ONE WONDERS when Jacobin will eventually get any Taiwanese voice to write–or even comment–on the possibility of conflict between the US and China that engulfs Taiwan. Their latest proves another article by Branko Marcetic, who is apparently the leftist magazine’s go-to-writer on Taiwan.
As should (...)
THE TAIWAN POLICY ACT cleared the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week. This clears the way for the bill to be discussed and voted upon by the US House of Representatives and Senate, with some warnings that China may take a strong response to the bill. The bill passed the committee by a (...)
THE KMT HAS experienced further controversy regarding the 1992 Consensus, following a recent interview by party chair Eric Chu with Deutsche Welle, as well as an article published by the CPPCC Daily, a Chinese state-run media outlet. It may not be surprising to note that both incidents have (...)
At the beginning of August , the tension rose by a (big) notch after Nancy Pelosi’s whirlwind visit to Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, and Beijing’s “over-reaction”. Even though the invasion of the Island was never on the agenda at that point, the dynamics of militarization of the Asia-Pacific (...)
THERE HAS BEEN significant discussion in Taiwan of how to respond to Chinese drones on outlying islands of Taiwan in the past few days.
Namely, this became an issue after a video circulated on Chinese social media earlier this week showing Taiwanese troops throwing rocks at a Chinese drone on (...)
US SENATOR Marsha Blackburn arrived last week on Thursday for a visit that ended on Saturday. This proved the third visit by a US delegation since the start of the month, following a month of whirlwind visits following a historic visit to Taiwan by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. The Pelosi (...)
FOLLOWING US SPEAKER of the House Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, tensions in the region seem set to escalate. Although in a recent Pentagon briefing, US government spokespersons claimed that they had anticipated China’s moves, China’s actions still came as a surprise.
For example, most (...)
“We must break the vicious cycle of provocations and stop the nuclear arms race in the East Asian region by tenacious anti-war resistance to the remilitarization.”
Shortly after arrival of US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, China began military drills surrounding the (...)
There is much talk from Beijing about how the island has been part of China since time immemorial. The reality is more complicated
he American sinologist Lucian Pye famously said that China is a “civilisation pretending to be a nation-state”. But it is precisely the opposite: China is a modern (...)
Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan has further raised tensions between the USA and China, already at a heightened level. Charlie Hore looks at the background to the visit and asks what the USA expected to get out of it.
Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan was clearly a provocation to China. What’s less (...)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit to Taiwan has set off a diplomatic firestorm between the U.S. and China. It also triggered China to engage in massive military exercises in the Taiwan Straits, while the U.S. carried out its own military exercises amidst its increased power projection in (...)
JACOBIN’S LATEST confused foray into commenting on Taiwan proves to be a video on its YouTube channel, the Jacobin Show, featuring Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad. Following on the heels of an article that labeled individuals that brought up the exclusion of Taiwanese voices from a conversation (...)
It’s the first time China has fired ballistic missiles into Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone.
Japan’s Defense Minister Kishi Nobuo said on August 4 that the Chinese military launched five ballistic missiles into Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) during a massive military drill aimed at Taiwan, (...)
Eric Chan is a senior strategist at the United States Air Force and non-resident research fellow at the Global Taiwan Institute. Even if the views expressed in this interview are his own and are not intended to represent those of his affiliate organizations, as stressed by The Diplomate, his (...)
Nancy Pelosi’s visit to our island has put the world on edge. But for ordinary Taiwanese people, life has to carry on
It’s no secret why Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan has been such big news. As speaker of the US House of Representatives, she is in direct succession to the presidency after the (...)
AS OF LATE, the Chinese government has begun stressing territorial claims over the Taiwan Straits in both statements by government spokespersons and in meetings with US government officials. The claim, then, is that the Taiwan Straits are not international waters, but are part of China’s (...)
RECENT COMMENTS by Chinese government spokespersons, such as Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Wang Wenbin, have asserted that the Taiwan Straits are not international waters but are instead part of China’s exclusive economic zone. Reportedly, Chinese government officials have (...)
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