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Prospects and challenges for Taiwan in the years ahead

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Taiwan’s economy during a time of global uncertainty

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FILE PHOTO: Taiwan Air Force Mirage-2000 fighter jets taxi during military drills to test readiness ahead of Lunar New Year, in Hsinchu, Taiwan January 16, 2019. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo

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Taiwan and the dangerous illogic of deterrence by denial

Melanie W. Sisson

May 2022

FILE PHOTO: Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning sails through the Miyako Strait near Okinawa on its way to the Pacific in this handout photo taken by Japan Self-Defense Forces and released by the Joint Staff Office of the Defense Ministry of Japan on April 4, 2021. Joint Staff Office of the Defense Ministry of Japan/HANDOUT via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. THIS PICTURE WAS PROCESSED BY REUTERS TO ENHANCE QUALITY. AN UNPROCESSED VERSION HAS BEEN PROVIDED SEPARATELY/File Photo

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Kevin Rudd on how to avoid war between the US and China

Kevin Rudd and David Dollar

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Rising to the challenge: Navigating competition, avoiding crisis, and advancing US interests in relations with China

John R. Allen, Ryan Hass, and Bruce Jones

November 2021

U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden arrives with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping (not pictured) at a China-US Business Dialogue in the Beijing Hotel in Beijing August 19, 2011. China and the United States "have a responsibility to strengthen macro-economic policy coordination and together boost market confidence," Xi told visiting Biden on Thursday, according to Chinese state media. REUTERS/How Hwee Young/Pool (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS)

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Biden’s China strategy: Coalition-driven competition or Cold War-style confrontation?

May 2021

Taiwan s military police raising the national flag during the ceremony of Taiwan National Day at the Presidential Office in Taipei, Taiwan on October 10, 2020. (Photo by Walid Berrazeg/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

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Toward a stronger US-Taiwan relationship

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

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Taiwan’s January 2020 elections: Prospects and implications for China and the United States

Kharis Templeman

December 2019

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From persuasion to coercion: Beijing’s approach to Taiwan and Taiwan’s response

Richard C. Bush

November 2019

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Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen poses for a group photograph with U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, Bob Menendez, chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and other U.S. delegation members, at the presidential office in Taipei, Taiwan, in this handout picture released April 15, 2022. Taiwan Presidential Office/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.

Order from Chaos

Focus on interests, not ideology, to strengthen Taiwan’s standing

Monday, April 18, 2022

FILE PHOTO: An engineer holds a chip while posing for a photo, he is in the middle of testing reactions from different materials and shapes that can have on the chip at the Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute (TSRI) in Hsinchu, Taiwan, February 11, 2022. REUTERS/Ann Wang/File Photo

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Ensuring a stronger US-Taiwan tech supply chain partnership

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

People wait to receive their booster shot of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at the lobby of Taipei main station ahead of Lunar new year in Taipei, Taiwan, January 24, 2022. REUTERS/Ann Wang

Order from Chaos

Taiwan’s people are not impressed with China’s “Zero COVID” status

Shelley Rigger, Lev Nachman, Chit Wai John Mok, and Nathan Kar Ming Chan

Friday, March 11, 2022

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Taiwan’s role in global supply chains

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The role of domestic politics in US-Taiwan relations

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Vulnerability and resilience: The future of East Asian supply chains

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Ryan Hass

Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center

The Michael H. Armacost Chair

Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies

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Richard C. Bush

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center

John R. Allen

President, The Brookings Institution

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A wafer (a thin slice of semiconductor) on display during SEMICON 2020, in Taipei, Taiwan on September 23, 2020.SEMICON Taiwan is the only professional semiconductor exhibition in Taiwan and the second-largest in the world, according to event organizer Semi Taiwan. (Photo by Walid Berrazeg/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

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Can semiconductor manufacturing return to the US?

Morris Chang, Jude Blanchette, and Ryan Hass

Thursday, April 14, 2022

People taking selfies near a footbridge decorated with lanterns ahead of the Lunar New Year, amid the Covid-19 pandemic.The island country will see few people in the streets as events, activities and gatherings for festival celebration have been cancelled or postponed to avoid the transmission subsequent to a cluster of domestic outbreak. (Photo by Daniel Tsang / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

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Can Taiwan have security AND the good life?

Richard C. Bush and Bill Finan

Friday, April 23, 2021

Incumbent Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen waves to her supporters after her election victory at a rally, outside the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan January 11, 2020. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

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What does Taiwan’s presidential election mean for relations with China?

Richard C. Bush and Adrianna Pita

Monday, January 13, 2020

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China’s Hong Kong and Taiwan problems: A semi-Leninist policy meets popular response

Richard C. Bush

Monday, April 4, 2022

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How Asian countries are reacting to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Ryan Hass, Patricia M. Kim, Tanvi Madan, Mireya Solís, and Andrew Yeo

Monday, March 21, 2022

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pose for a picture before their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome, Italy October 31, 2021. Tiziana Fabi/Pool via REUTERS

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Learning the right lessons from Ukraine for Taiwan

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

People wearing protective masks pick up their food at a newly opened night market amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Taipei, Taiwan, July 2, 2021. REUTERS/Ann Wang

Why is unification so unpopular in Taiwan? It’s the PRC political system, not just culture

Shelley Rigger, Lev Nachman, Chit Wai John Mok, and Nathan Kar Ming Chan

Monday, February 7, 2022

U.S President Joe Biden attends a virtual summit of ASEAN on Tuesday October 26, 2021 without Myanmar military leader Min Aung Hlaing after its top general failure of Myanmar's army to adhere to a peace road map it had agreed with the southeast Asian bloc following the coup in February. The exclusion of Senior General Min Aung Hlaing was an embarrassment for Myanmar's military and the harshest rebuke by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations since the military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and took over the government on February 1. During the meeting on Tuesday Sultan of Brunei Darussalam Haji Hassanal Bolkiah said he welcomed the inclusion of Britain as the first new dialogue partner of ASEAN in over two decades. There were three separate meetings between the ASEAN leaders and leaders of the United States, China, and South Korea.

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