Cheng-yi Lin

Cheng-yi Lin, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of the Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies (CAPAS), and Research Fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies, both at Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

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The Politics of China’s Missile Redeployments

09.24.2010 Cheng-yi Lin

Having achieved his administration’s goal of institutionalizing cross-Strait relations through the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), Chinese President Hu Jintao is now pursuing negotiations on...

Publication China Brief China and the Asia-Pacific

Managing the Chiang-Chen Talks in Cross-Strait Relations

01.21.2010 Cheng-yi Lin

In June 2008, negotiations between the semi-official Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) in Taiwan—which manages ongoing cross-Strait negotiations—and its Chinese counterpart, the Association for Relations Across...

Publication China Brief China and the Asia-Pacific

China’s 2008 Defense White Paper: The View from Taiwan

02.05.2009 Cheng-yi Lin

Beijing published the 2008 edition of "China’s National Defense" (hereafter White Paper) on the cusp of U.S. President Barack Obama's historic inauguration on January 20th....

Publication China Brief China and the Asia-Pacific

Taiwan’s Spratly Initiative in the South China Sea

02.29.2008 Cheng-yi Lin

Both Taiwan (ROC) and China (PRC) legally claim sovereign rights over the Spratly archipelago composed of islets and reefs in the form of a U-shaped...

Publication China Brief

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