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China Cross-Strait Editor Picks Hong Kong
Will the People’s Liberation Army be Deployed in Hong Kong?
Posted On July 30, 2019 Jean-Francois Dupre 0

No. A police state would serve Beijing better. With the Hong Kong protests intensifying in the past month, there has been …

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Thirty Years On, The CCP is Still Unrepentant About the Tiananmen Massacre
Posted On June 4, 2019 J Michael Cole 0

From Tiananmen Square in 1989 to Xinjiang today, the Party hasn’t learned a thing about benevolent rule. It’s all about …

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China Cross-Strait Editor Picks Taiwan Politics
Careful Who You Allow on That Plane, Mr. Gou
Posted On May 6, 2019 J Michael Cole 0

Whatever their political beliefs or party affiliation, candidates in next year’s elections in Taiwan must be made aware of the …

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Cross-Strait Editor Picks Military Taiwan Defense
The Median Line in the Taiwan Strait: A Dangerous Loophole
Posted On April 3, 2019 R. D. Cheng 0

Taiwan’s options are limited, but the Tsai administration must pursue a course of action that shows firm decisiveness and yet …

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Beijing’s ‘Peaceful Liberation’ Strategy Against Taiwan: A Warning
Posted On September 26, 2018 Christopher MacDonald 0

What the Warring States strategy and the Tibetan experience reveal about China’s plans to annex Taiwan.   Directly across from the Potala …

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‘Peaceful Unification’ Is Dead and Buried
Posted On August 7, 2018 J Michael Cole 0

The Chinese Communist Party uses ‘peaceful’ as a cover, a smokescreen to isolate and sideline whomever opposes its objective of …

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Cross-Strait World
Taiwan Continues to Slip Through Beijing’s Fingers
Posted On July 16, 2018 Kelvin Chen 0

Although we cannot completely write off the trade war between the U.S. and China as an underlying reason for its …

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Cross-Strait World
China’s Bullying of Taiwan: External Distraction for an Underperforming CCP?
Posted On May 25, 2018 J Michael Cole 0

Beijing’s harassment of Taiwan is not only failing, it serves as a distraction for a regime in Beijing that has …

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China Acting on ‘Lebanonization’ Threat Against Taiwan
Posted On May 8, 2018 J Michael Cole 0

Beijing has given up on winning the hearts and minds of the Taiwanese. Instead, using violence-prone proxies and a fake …

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Cross-Strait Editor Picks Military
China’s Live-Fire Drill in the Taiwan Strait: A Case Study in Psychological Warfare
Posted On April 18, 2018 J Michael Cole 0

Despite claims by Chinese hawks that the live-fire military exercise is aimed at Taiwan and that the aircraft carrier ‘Liaoning’ …

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‘Emperor Xi’ and Political Stability in China
Posted On March 13, 2018 J Michael Cole 0

By ending institutionalized transitions of power and extending the Chinese leader’s rule indefinitely, the constitutional change increases the odds that …

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China Cross-Strait
Top Chinese Military Strategist Bemoans KMT’s Lack of Commitment to Unification
Posted On February 21, 2018 J Michael Cole 0

Members of the Kuomintang who visit China are ‘lying and eating and drinking’, a Chinese military strategist argues.   Speaking in a …