2021 - 1st Quarter
The US, China and Taiwan: a Thucydides Trap?
It is almost impossible nowadays to read anything that involves the US and China without the phrase “Thucydides Trap” popping up. ...
The US, China, and Taiwan: a New Great Game?
There are games and then there are games; some games are serious while others are just for fun. However, the real ones can be deadly, especially if they involve nations. ...
The KMT’s Questionable Future: Where is it Going?
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) remains in its discontented state of disarray, searching for direction. To any distant observer it may not seem that bad, but a closer look proves otherwise. ...
US Must Change the Discourse on Taiwan
As a nation that touts democracy as one of its chief values, the US has always suffered from a slow learning curve on nationalistic self-determination and democratic development in Asia, particularly in Taiwan. As T. S. Eliot put in his poem The Hollow Men: “Between the idea and the reality; between the motion and the act, falls the shadow.” ...
How the COVID-19 Virus Exposed Taiwan, China, US
The year 2020 will go down in history. Certainly, if for nothing else, it will be remembered as the year of the COVID-19 pandemic and the continuing impact it has had on the world. All nations have had to deal with it; none escaped. ...
Taiwan Studies, Paradigm Shifts, and the World
My 2016 book, The Paradigms that Guide Our Lives and Drive Our Souls, was the result of continuous research on how issues of science/physics, metaphysical communities, and individual identity interplay and reflect our numerous paradigmatic views of the world we live in, as well as the realities we live by. ...