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US can play a ‘Taiwan card’
Taiwan’s elections have returned the Democratic Progressive Party to power. Rolling over the incumbent Kuomintang (KMT) nationalists, the DPP won both the presidency and a legislative majority, giving...
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Over the weekend, Tsai Ing-wen, chairwoman of Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive (DPP) Party, was elected as the country’s president in alandslide. Her party also decisively won the legislature for the...
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Tsai Ing-wen and cross-strait tensions
Tsai Ing-wen has just been elected as Taiwan’s first female president. A common narrative has been that her election will lead to greater tension in cross-strait relations and thus greater tension in...
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Unwinding Taiwan’s Cold War legacy
While President Obama visited Cuba last week to restore relations with the Castro-run island and “end the legacy of the Cold War” in Latin America, democratic Taiwan is still strangled by Cold War...
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Tsai inaugurates new era in cross-Strait ties
In her much awaited inaugural address, new Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s comments on cross-Strait ties were, as expected, entirely reasonable. In short, she said she’d “maintain existing...
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Beijing is fraying the One-China framework
Editor’s note: The next president is in for a rough welcome to the Oval Office given the list of immediate crises and slow-burning policy challenges, both foreign and domestic. What should Washington...
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