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China Sea Disputes
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America Must Take a Stand in the South China Sea (2015-09-05)
(The
National Interest, By Patrick M. Cronin) We can compensate for a diminished
fleet size through persistent presence and active security engagement. Not a day
should go by when our forces are not deployed to the South China Sea. For the
longer term, we need to work closely with allies and partners on ways to counter
coercion and China’s growing anti-access and area-denial capabilities.
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| Diaoyutai
Disputes Resurface and Japan Policy
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America's Big Opportunity to Lower Tensions in
Asia (2015-09-02)
(The
National Interest, By Lyle J. Goldstein) Zhang Tuosheng of the CIIS makes the
case that the (not so keen) handshake between leaders at the November 2014 APEC
Summit really has signaled a genuine improvement in the China-Japan
relationship.
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| U.S.
“Pivot” to Asia and Sino-U.S. Engagement
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China and America: The Disputes Also Matter (2015-08-30)
(The
National Interest, By Denny Roy) Tragically, the relatively narrow sector of
U.S.-China strategic disagreements threatens to overwhelm the relationship as a
whole. Ironically, China's ambassador to America Cui Tiankai’s plea for managing
these disagreements unintentionally demonstrates how intractable they
are.
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| DPP
Searches for New China Stance; Cross-Strait Issues
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KMT, CCP Defeated Japan: Lien Chan (2015-09-02)
(Taipei
Times) Former vice president Lien Chan said during a meeting with Chinese
President Xi Jinping in Beijing that the KMT under the leadership of former
president Chiang Kai-shek engaged directly with Japanese troops in major
battles, handing the latter a major setback, and that CCP troops led by former
Chinese leader Mao Zedong also tied down the enemy behind their lines and
eventually defeated the Japanese aggressors.
TSU, DPP Pan Military Parade Attendance (2015-09-03)
(Taipei
Times) The Taiwan Solidarity Union and the Democratic Progressive Party panned
retired officials — including three retired military officers — for planning to
attend a military parade in Beijing today.
Ma Dismisses Lien's Japan War Claims (2015-09-03)
(Taipei
Times) President Ma Ying-jeou expressed regret over a claim by Beijing that
Chinese Communist Party forces played a significant role in the victory in the
Second Sino-Japanese War.
Top Cross-Strait Ministers Likely to Meet This
Month (2015-09-04)
(CNA)
Top officials from both sides of the Taiwan Strait who are in charge of their
countries' respective cross-strait policies could meet this month, informed
sources said.
Tsai Hopeful on Chinese Intent After Military
Cuts (2015-09-05)
(Taipei
Times) Tsai said that while the cuts would not necessarily reduce China’s
military power, she took note of the Chinese government’s declaration that the
PLA would not seek hegemony.
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| PLA,
Military Balance and Arms Sales
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In a First, Chinese Navy Sails off Alaska (2015-09-03)
(New
York Times, By Helene Cooper) Five Chinese Navy ships were sailing in
international waters of the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, in what Pentagon
officials said was the first such foray by Beijing.
China's Master Plan to Become a Global Maritime
Power (2015-08-26)
(The
National Interest, By Bernard D. Cole) China's navy, from its founding in 1949
to the 1996 Taiwan Strait crisis, was focused on preventing Taiwan from becoming
formally independent. This goal did not require long-distance operations that
would require an at-sea resupply capability. Now, however, Beijing has declared
its status as a global maritime power.
Showtime: China Reveals Two ‘Carrier-Killer’
Missiles (2015-09-03)
(The
Diplomat, By Andrew S. Erickson) After years of foreign speculation and
surprising skepticism about an anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM), China has for
the first time officially revealed two variants: the DF-21D and
DF-26.
China Announces Cuts of 300,000 Troops at Military Parade Showing
Its Might (2015-09-04)
(New
York Times, By Edward Wong, Jane Perlez, and Chris Buckley) President Xi Jinping
of China announced that he would reduce the country’s military personnel by
300,000, using a parade marking 70 years since the end of World War II to
present the People’s Liberation Army as a force for peace and regional
stability.
China Wants More Planes and Ships--and 300,000 Fewer
Troops (2015-09-03)
(Foreign
Policy, By Paul McLeary) China is slashing 300,000 troops, but the cuts aren’t
being made to reduce tensions with Beijing’s increasingly anxious neighbors.
Instead, China is trying to trim the fat from a force burdened with massive
Soviet-era bureaucracy, aging equipment, and enormous numbers of poorly trained,
badly paid draftees.
Report Outlines Possible PLA Attacks (2015-09-01)
(Taipei
Times) MND reports said China is concerned about the outcome of Taiwan’s
presidential and legislative elections in January next year, and its People’s
Liberation Army has therefore conducted a series of military drills in recent
months simulating an invasion of Taiwan, known as “Operation Decapitation,” in
which airborne paratroopers and special forces practiced descending on the
Presidential Office Building in Taipei City in a rapid
assault.
Design Budget for Submarines Too Low: Experts (2015-09-04)
(Taipei
Times, By William Lowther) Some US experts say the Ministry of National Defense
is not asking for enough money to pay for the design phase of the nation’s
indigenous submarine project.
Taiwan to Test-Fire PAC-3 Missiles in US (2015-09-04)
(Taipei
Times) The US rejected a previous request to test-fire the missiles at a
Taiwanese military base, likely because of the greater threat of Chinese
espionage.
Tsai Discusses Industrial, National Defense
Policies (2015-09-06)
(CNA)
Tsai Ing-wen, chairwoman and presidential candidate of the opposition DPP, said
that her DPP administration would use the national defense budget to promote the
development of defense-related technologies in such fields as aeronautics,
submarine building and information security, if she wins the presidential
election next year.
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| Taiwan's
Domestic Issues and Foreign Relations
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Party Identification
Tracking Analysis in Taiwan, August 2015 (2015-09-04)
(TISR)
Taiwan Indicators Survey Research released its August
surveyresults
(in Chinese) on the public's party identities. The percentage of Taiwanese who
expressed support for the KMT or other Pan-Blue parties remained unchanged from
July's figure of 28.5%.
KMT Candidate Hung Says She Will Pause Her
Campaign (2015-09-03)
(China
Post) KMT 2016 presidential candidate Hung Hsiu-chu announced on her Facebook
page late last night that she is going to stop daily campaign activity for a
while, to consider what to do in the future.
Top Diplomat Joins US Commemoration of WWII (2015-09-04)
(CNA)
In a highly symbolic move, the nation’s representative to the US attended an
event in Washington to commemorate the Allied Forces’ victory in the Pacific and
the end of World War II, which the Chinese ambassador refused to attend.
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| China's
Rise and Its Domestic Issues
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For China, a Plunge and a Reckoning (2015-08-28)
(Wall
Street Journal, By Orville Schell) As large, dynamic and successful as China has
become, it still exists in a global context—and remains vulnerable to myriad
forces beyond the party’s control. It must take the chip off its shoulder,
recognize that it is already a great power and begin to put its people, its
Pacific neighbors and the U.S. at ease.
China's Leaders Face Hard Decisions (2015-08-31)
(Project
Syndicate, By Michael Boskin) China must avoid reverting to greater state
control of the economy — a possibility glimpsed in the authorities’ ham-fisted
response to the correction in equity prices. That approach needs to be abandoned
once and for all, before it does any more damage to China’s quest for long-term
stability and prosperity.
China Parade Draws Putin, but Few Other Major World
Leaders (2015-09-02)
(AP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin, South Korean President Park Geun-hye and UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon shine at the top of China’s guest list for
tomorrow’s grand commemorations of the 70th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in
World War II. After them, the wattage gets pretty low.
China's Military Parade Doesn't Speak the Language of Its
Youth (2015-09-02)
(Foreign
Policy, By Alec Ash) The parade sends a signal of China’s resurgent military
power, one no longer feeble in the face of outside aggression. But the domestic
message is more important still, with military strength conferring legitimacy on
the government, which takes great pains to remind its citizens that the ruling
Communist Party made the country strong after years of foreign
oppression.
Military Parade in China Gives Xi Jinping a Platform to Show Grip
on Power (2015-09-04)
(New
York Times, By Chris Buckley) The highly public manner of Mr. Xi’s announcement
that 300,000 military personnel would be demobilized demonstrated his grip on
the military and on the party, amid economic squalls and a grinding
anticorruption campaign that have left some wondering whether he and his agenda
of change — including in the People’s Liberation Army — were
faltering.
Contact:
Dalton Lin, Executive Editor
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