As prominent political scientists often state, a country’s foreign policy is strongly linked to its domestic policy. Taking this simple idea, no other crisis in the history of the world complicates and yet reinforces it much like the current Taiwan Crisis [...]

A decades old question of democratization in China has been revived by its resurgence as a world power under the non-democratic leadership of the CCP [...]

A captive of both Japanese colonial and American imperialist forces, Korea was not allowed to independently modernize within the global environment, but rather imported elements of modernity from its captors [...]

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou won a landslide victory on March 22, 2008, defeating Democratic People’s Party (DPP) candidate Frank Hsieu and ending eight years of DPP rule over Taiwan. His victory has largely been attributed to [...]

Through the PBS frontline democracy Tianmen: The Gate of Heavenly Peace, further research into the Tiananmen Square incident of 1989, and the concept of Western democracy, I would like to explore the evolving concept of “Chinese democracy”—Minzhu—in four ways [...]

The current Western analysis of Sino-Japanese relations can be likened to a badly tailored suit—at best, it clumsily covers main aspects of the relationship and anticipates movement in crises; at worst, it is ill-fitted to address the past peculiarities and future growing pains of such a relationship. The unsuitability of such an analysis should not [...]