Taiwan continues to make headlines nearly two months past its presidential and legislative elections. Alongside debates about maritime law around Taiwan’s Kinmen Islands, another issue that garnered attention in the West has been China’s balloon flights over Taiwan. Many have declared these balloons as the most recent example of Beijing’s gray-zone coercion tactics and urged … Read more
Advertisement U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is reportedly heading to China later this week, over four months after a previously planned trip was canceled following the appearance of a Chinese surveillance balloon over the continental United States. According to the Associated Press, “U.S. officials say Blinken expects to be in Beijing on June 18 … Read more
Advertisement U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, met on May 10 and 11 in Vienna, Austria, both sides confirmed on Thursday. (Wang, previously China’s long-time foreign minister, is now the director of the Chinese Communist Party’s Foreign Affairs Office, a higher-ranking position.) The United States described the talks as … Read more