Feb 11,2016 National Commentaries A US Perspective "US-ROK-Japanese Trilateral Security Cooperation" When President Barack Obama announced his much-touted “rebalance” to Asia in a speech in Australia in November 2011, his administration believed that its new stance toward the Asia-Pacific policy would be his foreign policy legacy. Having ended, so they hoped, America’s military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, their emphasis on […] Michael Auslin Democracy , Hub-and-Spokes , National security , Regionalism
Dec 10,2015 Open Forum Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Government Responses to Student-led Protests in Taiwan and Hong Kong With local identities increasingly consolidated, especially among young people, there have been unprecedented protests in both Taiwan and Hong Kong against their respective governments’ policies toward Beijing. Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement (SM) in March 2014 opposed further economic integration with China, specifically the ratification of a cross-Strait agreement on trade in services. Soon after, in September […] Syaru Shirley Lin Democracy , National identity , One Country Two Systems , Sunflower Movement , Umbrella Movement