Search results for: Julie Yu-Wen Chen
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Taiwan-Honduras Relations Hanging by a Thread
…Tsai Ing-wen congratulated Hernández’ on securing a second term in office. For Tsai, it appears that retaining diplomatic allies and outmaneuvering Beijing to pressure Honduras to switch diplomatic allies trumped…
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Burkina Faso’s Yoyo Diplomacy: Divorcing Taipei to Remarry Beijing
…remaining countries recognizing its sovereignty, most of which are poorer nations in Central America and the Pacific. Shifting Allegiances Since President Tsai Ing wen and the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party…
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South China Sea and Taiwan: Two Regional Flashpoints Overlap
…as Taiwan is already independent. This sentiment seems shared across the political spectrum in Taiwan because even the presidential candidate of the China-friendly Kuomintang, Hou Yu-ih, though welcoming of deepened…
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China’s 2024 NPC: What to Expect?
…as both sides have spoken of restoring normalization. The investment environment in today’s China is not as welcoming as it was in the Hu-Wen era. The 2020 crackdown against Jack…
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Online Safety Bill & Operation Justice: Sri Lankan Democracy under Attack
…about the ongoing human rights violations. Among diplomats, U.S. Ambassador Julie Chung has warned the ongoing police operation to “uphold the principles of the rule of law and due process”….
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China’s City of the Future: Down with the Old, In with the New
…chose the area after visiting Anxin in February 2017. Construction of a New Capital Deng Xiaoping envisioned the development of Shenzhen and Putong, and Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao designed…
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Berlin’s Hesitant Stance on Taiwan
…Tsai Ing-wen, in an effort to show solidarity in the face of Beijing’s ongoing aggression. While the show of support was welcomed, Tsai used the opportunity to call on Germany…
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Denmark and Taiwan – Edging Closer?
…to also show more support for Taiwan’s autonomy and to strengthen EU-Taiwan relations. In a meeting with Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen, Fogh Rasmussen underscored his strong support for Taiwan’s right…
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The Chinese Discourse of Power: Diplomacy at its Core
…a “socialist market economy”, China attempted “crossing the river by feeling the stones.” These “stones”, according to Wen Tiejun, a top agriculture economist of China, were “symbolic norms defined by…
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Energy Transition Provides Scope for Taiwan-Nordic Cooperation
Since 2016 the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has run the administration in Taiwan and cross-strait relations have deteriorated due to the DPP’s political and cultural stances—distancing Taiwan…