The recent spate of articles on China's growing energy and natural resource consumption is a key explanation for Beijing's growing interest in South America. While the continent remains at least fourth on China's list of priorities, the vast array of resources available, coupled with a... MORE

Let a hundred fig-leaves wilt! Since Hong Kong's return to the motherland's embrace in 1997, Beijing has cited a thousand and one pieces of evidence to buttress claims that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership has adopted a hands-off policy toward the special administrative region... MORE

The World Health Organization's (WHO) annual meeting at the World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva has increasingly become entangled in Taiwan's effort to carve out international space for itself in multilateral organizations. The United States has consistently supported Taiwan's push to join the WHO as... MORE

Asia has been a focal point in the international campaign against terrorism ever since the tragic events of September 11, 2001. From the Caucasian mountains to the Java Sea, militant Islamists have made Asia the epicenter of the "war on terror." Although the strategic consequences... MORE

Dear Readers: In the wake of the recent inauguration of Chen Shui-bian as Taiwan's president, the Jamestown Foundation is pleased to publish a special issue of the China Brief devoted exclusively to issues pertaining to Taiwan, and its relationship with China and the United States.... MORE

In the view of many observers, the normalization of Sino-American relations signaled the end of a strategic relationship with the Republic of China (Taiwan) that had endured with but one brief interruption for forty years. The rapid growth of economic ties between the U.S. and... MORE

Assuming that President Chen Shui-bian sticks to the pledges he made in his May 20 inauguration speech, the possibility of armed conflict in the Taiwan Strait seems to have subsided for the time being. However, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership has signaled its intention... MORE

In spite of the overall moderation demonstrated by Chen Shui-bian in his May 20 inauguration speech, China does not seem ready to change its basic attitude towards the re-elected Taiwanese president. Both the fresh proposals that Beijing made on May 17th and its renewed denunciation... MORE

This will be the first in a two- part series addressing Latin American ties with Taiwan and China. This piece will focus largely on Taiwan's ties with Latin America, while the second part appearing in issue 12 will examine PRC relations with this region. Latin... MORE

Dear Readers: The Jamestown Foundation is pleased to present a special issue of the China Brief devoted to China and Eurasia, which examines critical aspects of China's relations with Russia, the U.S. and the Central Asian states. The interaction of the two principal actors -... MORE