Media Highlights
The Hill: Could Taiwan’s next president impact a potential cross-strait crisis?
May 7, 2023 by: Zoe Leung and Cameron Waltz Amid simmering cross-strait tensions, experts and officials alike have predicted that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan could happen in the next 10 years, if not sooner. However, the headlines shroud the crucial role that Taiwan...
The Hill: Could Taiwan’s next president impact a potential cross-strait crisis?
May 7, 2023 by: Zoe Leung and Cameron Waltz Amid simmering cross-strait tensions, experts and officials alike have predicted that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan could happen in the next 10 years, if not sooner. However, the headlines shroud the crucial role that Taiwan...
WSJ: China’s Xi Jinping Takes Rare Direct Aim at U.S. in Speech
March 6, 2023 by: Chun Han Wong, Keith Zhai and James T. Areddy Chinese leader Xi Jinping issued an unusually blunt rebuke of U.S. policy on Monday, blaming what he termed a Washington-led campaign to suppress China for recent challenges facing his country. “Western...
VOA News: Flashpoint Ukraine: Growing Concerns that China May Provide Lethal Aid to Russia
February 27, 2023 by: Lori Lundin Bush China Foundation President and CEO David Firestein was featured on the most recent episode of VOA News’ program “Flashpoint Ukraine” and discussed the possibility of China sending aid to Russia as it continues its war on Ukraine....
Taiwan Insight: Taiwan’s COVID-19 Surge: From “Zero-COVID” to “Living with COVID”
May 27, 2022 by: Tsung-Mei Cheng For more than two years since the global COVID-19 pandemic began in January 2020, Taiwan was remarkably successful in containing its spread and escaped the scourge of the deadly coronavirus. As of 9 April this year, Taiwan registered a...
South China Morning Post: US-China tensions may be rising, but among Gen Z, the two countries have never been more aligned
SHARE THIS ARTICLE February 8, 2023 by: Euhwa Tran Relations between the United States and China remain at a low watermark with limited hope for significant improvement. In spite of this, young people in both countries are more like-minded than any...
Taipei Times: Taiwan, India need to keep talking
SHARE THIS ARTICLE January 18, 2023 by: Sana Hashmi There is a constant debate regarding countries’ responses to a potential “Taiwan contingency,” but relatively little discussion on how to deter China from invading Taiwan. What must be reinforced is that the...
Spyscape: Intimidation or Accident? The Psychology Behind China’s Spy Balloon
SHARE THIS ARTICLE February 6, 2023 by: Caroline Byrne Why would China fly a suspected spy balloon into North America and leave it to float across the states just days before the US Secretary of State was to meet his counterpart in Beijing? Was it a power play or...
Nikkei: Kim Jong Un has started his succession planning
SHARE THIS ARTICLE January 25, 2023 by: Seong-Hyon Lee Until now, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has kept his private life very private. But unexpectedly, his daughter Kim Ju Ae has made three public appearances over the past two months. South Korean intelligence...
David Firestein appears on McCuistion TV: “China’s Overreach and Its Derailment “
SHARE THIS ARTICLE January 15, 2023 In this episode of McCuistion TV, Bush China Foundation President and CEO David Firestein discusses key issues in the U.S.-China relationship including economic ties, Chinese leadership and its comparison to Soviet Russia,...
Wall Street Journal: We Want to Rebuild U.S. Relations With China
July 6, 2022 by: Maurice R. Greenberg The deteriorating state of affairs between the U.S. and China has destabilized the most important bilateral relationship in the world. Many Chinese companies do business in the U.S., as do American companies in China, across all...
Beijing Review: Calls for China-U.S. carbon neutrality technology cooperation
SHARE THIS ARTICLE November 08, 2022 by: Tao Xing Promoting green, clean and sustainable energy development to achieve the goals of carbon peaking and neutrality is core to addressing climate change. In this field, China and the U.S. share many interests and much...
Wall Street Journal: We Want to Rebuild U.S. Relations With China
SHARE THIS ARTICLE July 6, 2022 by: Maurice R. Greenberg The deteriorating state of affairs between the U.S. and China has destabilized the most important bilateral relationship in the world. Many Chinese companies do business in the U.S., as do American...
Taiwan Insight: Taiwan’s COVID-19 Surge: From “Zero-COVID” to “Living with COVID”
SHARE THIS ARTICLE May 27, 2022 by: Tsung-Mei Cheng For more than two years since the global COVID-19 pandemic began in January 2020, Taiwan was remarkably successful in containing its spread and escaped the scourge of the deadly coronavirus. As of 9...
The Arab Weekly: ‘Track II diplomacy’ could be key to peace
SHARE THIS ARTICLE June 20, 2022 by: Lin Gao One of the key tools of international peacekeeping of recent decades has been an unofficial but concerted effort called "Track 2 diplomacy". So named because it takes place outside of official, so-called...
Editorial: Zeroing out on zero-COVID
SHARE THIS ARTICLE June 2, 2022 by: William C. Kirby There is no such thing as “ zero-COVID.” As the Omicron variant spreads to China’s capital city, Beijing, the question is not if, but when and how, China will begin to “live with COVID-19” rather than...
The Cipher Brief: Putin’s Ukraine Gambit: Why Now and What’s Next
SHARE THIS ARTICLE February 23, 2022 by: Kenneth Dekleva Following a masterful combination of long-term strategy, gray zone tactics, hybrid warfare, and management of the information space, Russia’s President Putin has at last slipped up, and invaded sovereign...