Viewpoint
04.19.18

Trump’s Incredibly Risky Taiwan Policy

J. Stapleton Roy

So-called friends of Taiwan in the United States are putting the island at risk as never before. The Taiwan Travel Act, passed unanimously by both houses of Congress, and signed by President Trump on March 16, 2018 without reservations, could...

Media
11.06.15

Xi Jinping’s Taiwan Trap

Isaac Stone Fish

Before Chinese President Xi Jinping had a dream, his predecessor Hu Jintao had a wish: the “...

Conversation
11.05.15

The China-Taiwan Summit

Richard Bernstein, Andrew J. Nathan & more

This Saturday, for the first time since 1949, the leaders of China and Taiwan will meet face to face. Xi Jinping and Ma Ying-jeou will meet in Singapore, not as Presidents, but—to sidestep one of many lingering areas of conflict since the Chinese...

Media
11.05.15

With Historic Ma-Xi Summit, Chinese State Media Walks a Fine Line

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian

For the first time in 66 years, the president of mainland China and the president of self-governing Taiwan will meet face to face. On November 3, Zhang Zhijun, minister in charge of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office,...

The NYRB China Archive
10.22.92

The Other China

Jonathan D. Spence
from New York Review of Books

On the same late fall day in 1991, two stories about China appeared in the Western press. One announced that thirty-five drug dealers had just been executed in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming, probably by a single police bullet fired...