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Think tanks have played a major role in planning and operationalizing relations with countries around the world. [47] European universities, research centers, and think tanks have developed a new academic field of Taiwan studies, especially in Europe, because of the unique status of Taiwan in the world's diplomatic system.
Taiwan is the fourth-largest recipient of American arms sales worldwide. Since 1950, only Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Japan have spent more on US weapons than the Republic of China. The Taiwan ...
Tensions between China and Taiwan soared to new heights this week as Beijing deployed warplanes and naval vessels in a mock invasion of the island to demonstrate its anger and towards the new ...
It is clear that the PRC still maintains that "there is only one China in the world" and "Taiwan is an inalienable part of China". However, instead of "the Government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government of China", the PRC now emphasizes that "both Taiwan and the mainland belong to one and same China".
Bloomberg's modeling, meanwhile, estimates that a total blockade of Taiwan and Western sanctions on China could result in a 5% worldwide GDP decline, with US GDP falling by 3.3% and China's by 8.9%.
Jaw Shaw-kong, a member of the Kuomintang, made a public statement on Facebook stating that a lesson that should be learned from the onset of the conflict was that small countries like Taiwan should not stimulate big countries, which attracted criticism. Newscaster Zhang Yaqin called the statement unacceptable, and said that if Taiwan was ...
Successive U.S. administrations have vowed to defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion. U.S. State Department Spokesman Matthew Miller urged China "to act with restraint and to avoid any ...
The former president said Taiwan should share more of the costs for such a collective defense, which is “far less of a problem” for Taiwan than for other U.S. allies in the region, he said. “The defense of Taiwan is enshrined in the Taiwan Relations Act,” Yu said. “The joint defense of Taiwan is a national consensus.