Zhu Songling, Professor, Beijing Union University
Aug 29, 2022
The visit to Taiwan by the U.S. House speaker is a straight-up violation of the one-China principle. It requires no stretch of imagination to see that security and stability will be dangerously degraded if the United States fails to reflect.
Zhao Minghao, Professor, Institute of International Studies, Fudan University
Aug 29, 2022
The negative influences of the U.S. House speaker’s Taiwan visit are fermenting and will continue to poison China-U.S. relations. Domestic political winds in the United States are stirring up strategic confusion that will inevitably increase the risk of war.
Da Wei, Director of Center for International Strategy and Security; Professor at Tsinghua University
Aug 29, 2022
It’s not clear that China and the United States can sit down for truly in-depth discussions that ensure each side can send restrained messages to let the other party get it right. The consequence of failure could mean war, and we’re nearly out of time.
Yang Wenjing, Research Professor, Institute of American Studies, CICIR
Aug 15, 2022
Worried about Taiwan’s fate, Washington imagines that the Chinese mainland might copy Russia and resort to force. Biden administration officials have said they want to see Taiwan apply the lessons learned from Ukraine’s resistance.
Zhao Minghao, Professor, Institute of International Studies, Fudan University
Aug 01, 2022
The recent conversation offered an opportunity to manage bilateral relations from a strategic height. But because of domestic political strife in the U.S, there will likely be no letup in attempts to amplify “China threat” rhetoric.
Dennis V. Hickey, James F. Morris Endowed Professor of Political Science, Missouri State University
Oct 27, 2020
The rise in US-China frictions has led some Americans to call for an increase in US support for Taiwan—even a return of American military forces. However, basing US troops in Taiwan will unnecessarily complicate an already complex situation and undermine peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.
Dennis V. Hickey, James F. Morris Endowed Professor of Political Science, Missouri State University
Oct 20, 2020
The rise in US-China frictions has led some Americans to call for an increase in US support for Taiwan—even a return of American military forces. However, basing US troops in Taiwan will unnecessarily complicate an already complex situation and undermine peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.
Ted Galen Carpenter, Senior Fellow, Randolph Bourne Institute
Sep 22, 2020
Washington is sending an unsubtle message to Beijing that U.S. military support for Taiwan is no longer ambiguous or hesitant.
Jul 09, 2019
State Department has approved the possible sale of M1A2T Abrams tanks, Stinger missiles and related equipment at an estimated value of $2.2 billion.
Jun 06, 2019
The move will likely anger China as a trade war between the world’s two biggest economies escalates.