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| Diaoyutai
Disputes Resurface and Japan Policy
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Japan Opens Aid Program to Foreign Troops (2015-02-10)
(Wall
Street Journal, By Toko Sekiguchi) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ’s cabinet
Tuesday agreed to provide development aid for the first time to foreign
militaries engaged in non-combat operations, the latest step toward Mr. Abe’s
goal of Japan playing a bigger role in global affairs.
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| U.S.
“Pivot” to Asia and Sino-U.S. Engagement
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U.S. Considering Warship Presence in Australia (2015-02-10)
(Wall
Street Journal, By Rob Taylor) The U.S. Navy is considering a plan to regularly
dock warships in Australia and would like to broaden yearly maritime exercises
with India to permanently include close regional allies Japan and Australia, in
an expansion of security ties that could risk exacerbating strategic rivalries
with China.
US Appeals to Japan Business to Help Push for Trade
Pact (2015-02-14)
(AP,
By Elaine Kurtenbach) Japan and the U.S. are moving closer to reaching agreement
on market opening measures needed to conclude a Pacific Rim trade pact, a top
U.S. envoy said, urging Japanese business leaders to help bridge the last,
difficult disagreements.
An ‘Obama Doctrine’ Might Be Here At Last (2015-02-10)
(The
Diplomat, By Jack Detsch) The new national security strategy frames the
Asia-Pacific as its testing ground. It describes the U.S. as a “Pacific power”
and calls for strengthening nascent regional institutions like ASEAN, the EAS,
and APEC to enforce rules and norms, build consensus on international
challenges, and peacefully settle regional disputes.
President Xi Jinping to Visit U.S. in September, Chinese Agency
Reports (2015-02-12)
(New
York Times, By Michael Forsythe) The first state visit by President Xi Jinping
of China to the United States will take place in September, the state-run Xinhua
news agency reported.
How America's New Secretary of Defense Will Deal with
China (2015-02-14)
(The
Diplomat, By Shannon Tiezzi) To preserve U.S. interests vis-à-vis a more
militarily capable China, Carter wrote, the U.S. should “invest in
transformational U.S. military capabilities”; “maintain and expand U.S.
alliances in Asia” (including “pursuing deeper military partnerships with …
India and possibly Vietnam”); “ensure that [the U.S.] military has the
capability to defend Taiwan”; and “expand military-to-military cooperation” with
China.
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| Cross-Strait
Issues
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MAC Minister Resigns As Chang's Charge Dropped (2015-02-11)
(Taipei
Times) MAC) Minister Wang Yu-chi offered his resignation after prosecutors
decided not to indict former deputy minister Chang Hsien-yao on charges of
leaking confidential information to China, despite Wang’s testimony that he had
done so.
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| Taiwan's
Domestic Issues and Foreign Relations
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Taiwan Charges Dozens of Protestors in Takeover of Government
Buildings (2015-02-11)
(New
York Times, By Austin Ramzy) Prosecutors in Taiwan have charged dozens of
protesters over an occupation of government buildings last year that sought to
block approval of a trade pact with China.
Taiwan Slips to 51st in Press Freedom Rankings (2015-02-14)
(Taipei
Times, William Lowther) Taiwan slipped one place to 51st out of the world’s 180
countries in this year’s Press Freedom Index, released by Reporters Without
Borders.
Tsai Ing-wen Declares Presidential Bid (2015-02-15)
(China
Post) Tsai Ing-wen, chairwoman of the DPP, declared her candidacy for the 2016
presidential election, promising a government that fully serves the interests of
the people rather than particular groups or persons.
Delegation to APEC Secures Taiwan Role at FTAAP
Discussion (2015-02-09)
(Taipei
Times) MOFA said that Taiwan has secured a position in the special task force
overseeing the Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific trade
agreement.
US Beef Chop Suey Import Should be Allowed: Deng (2015-02-12)
(China
Post) The relationship between meat imports and Taiwan joining the TPP framework
depends very much on the attitude of decision makers in the US, Deng said. If
the U.S. insists on resolving the beef issue before moving on to discuss
Taiwan's TPP membership, it is something that “Taiwan must face,” Economics
Minister John Deng said.
Easing of US Beef Offal Ban Angers Lawmakers (2015-02-12)
(Taipei
Times) Minister of Economic Affairs John Deng’s announcement in the US that the
nation’s ban on US cow offal would be lifted met with criticism from both KMT
and DPP lawmakers.
St. Lucia Planning to Open Embassy in
Taiwan (2015-02-13)
(China
Post) Taiwan's Caribbean ally St. Lucia is currently searching for locations in
Taipei to open its embassy in the near future, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
said.
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| China's
Rise and Its Domestic Issues
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China Tells Schools to Suppress Western Ideas, with One Big
Exception (2015-02-10)
(New
York Times, By Dan Levin) The nation’s education minister is sounding dire
alarms against foreign influence on its campuses, calling for a ban on textbooks
that promote Western ideas — except if that idea is
Communism.
University President Sees Echoes of Cultural Revolution in New
Campaign (2015-02-11)
(Sinosphere,
By Chris Buckley) The Chinese Communist Party’s drive to cleanse universities of
liberal Western textbooks and other ideological heresies has assumed the
features of an archetypal political campaign.
China's War on ‘Western Values’ (2015-02-15)
(Project
Syndicate, By Minxin Pei) The Chinese leadership’s fight against liberalism and
“Western values” is directly undermining its efforts to root out official
corruption, promote innovation and entrepreneurship, and deepen engagement with
the outside world. The regime’s retrograde politics will have serious
consequences for China’s continued economic development.
Executive
Editor: Dalton Lin
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