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Fair Trade for Taiwan -- and America

Detroit could have sold an additional 600,000 more cars each year since 2004 if the U.S. had agreed to a "Free Trade Agreement" with Taiwan.  How? The Institute for International Economics looked at Taiwan's auto market and judged that a ...

From JOHN J. TKACIK, JR., American Spectator,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress,  Barack Obama

Taiwan Arms Sales: Less Than Meets the Eye

After more than seven years of waiting, there is reason to celebrate the final approval of a $6.4 billion U.S. arms sale to Taiwan. Unfortunately, there is less to this package than meets the eye. Rather than addressing Taipei’s deteriorating military ...

From JOHN J. TKACIK, JR., The Heritage Foundation,  8 Oct 2008
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  White House,  The Pentagon,  Hu Jintao

Taiwan's Defense Hobbled by U.S. Arms "Freeze"

The word is sweeping Washington—or at least the Taiwan-watchers in Washington (including those in the Chinese embassy)—that the Bush Administration is continuing its “freeze” of eight major defense packages necessary to Taiwan’s security. President ...

From JOHN J. TKACIK, JR., The Heritage Foundation,  27 Sep 2008
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  U.S. Congress,  The Pentagon,  White House,  Hu Jintao

Mongolia's Current Political Situation: Implications for the OSCE

I know that the members of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe are serious observers of Eurasian events and that you are con­cerned about the direction of Mongolia's democracy after the June 29, 2008, parliamentary election. I, too, am ...

From JOHN J. TKACIK, JR., The Heritage Foundation,  15 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Mikhail Gorbachev,  James Baker,  NATO,  Deng Xiaoping

Olympic Invasion: China, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Russia's Aggression

Friday, August 8, was the holiest day in China's 2008 calendar. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush were in Beijing (along with 54 other heads of state and 15 prime ministers) to watch the opening ceremonies of the ...

From JOHN J. TKACIK, JR., The Heritage Foundation,  4 Sep 2008
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Vladimir Putin,  Hu Jintao,  White House,  NATO

Beijing's Olympic Message--9/2/2008 12:00:00 AM

Tkacik, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, is a retired U.S. Foreign Service officer. He served in Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Taipei and was chief of China analysis in the State Department's Bureau of ...

From JOHN J. TKACIK JR., FrontPage Magazine,  2 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Zhang Yimou,  Heritage Foundation,  Jacques Rogge,  BBC,  United Nations

Beijing's Olympic Message: China Gets What It Wants

The blazing pageantry of the Beijing Olympics—the most spectacular Olympian celebration in over 70 years—is rightfully being heralded as the symbol of China’s arrival as a global power. The bright Olympic spotlight showed the world a Chinese communist ...

From JOHN J. TKACIK, JR., The Heritage Foundation,  29 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Zhang Yimou,  Jacques Rogge,  BBC,  United Nations

Zimbabweâs Enabler--7/17/2008 12:00:00 AM

For decades, China has been a stalwart ally of Robert Mugabe. This relationship began in the 1970s, when China armed Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) guerrillas against white rule in Southern Rhodesia.[1] Subsequently, it was no surprise ...

From BRETT D. SCHAEFER AND JOHN J. TKACIK, JR., FrontPage Magazine,  17 Jul 2008
Related Topics: George Washington University,  Morgan Tsvangirai,  Robert Mugabe,  United Nations,  European Union

Zimbabwe’s Enabler: How Chinese Arms Keep Mugabe in Power

For decades, China has been a stalwart ally of Robert Mugabe. This relationship began in the 1970s, when China armed Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) guerrillas against white rule in Southern Rhodesia.[1] Subsequently, it was no surprise ...

From BRETT D. SCHAEFER AND JOHN J. TKACIK, JR., The Heritage Foundation,  16 Jul 2008
Related Topics: George Washington University,  Morgan Tsvangirai,  Robert Mugabe,  United Nations,  European Union

Seismic Suppression: Chinese Censorship After the Sichuan Earthquake

Those who thought that the devastating Sichuan earthquake of May 12 brought out the best in the Chinese government should think again. Six weeks after the quake, it has become obvious that the local government's incompetence and venality was ...

From JOHN J. TKACIK, JR., The Heritage Foundation,  26 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Wen Jiabao

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