{"id":12409,"date":"2020-06-06T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12409"},"modified":"2020-06-03T11:38:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T18:38:48","slug":"strategika-issue-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-issue-65\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategika Issue #65"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Taiwan:\u00a0&#8220;The\u00a0Struggle\u00a0Continues&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague, Gordon G. Chang\u00a0in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cReunification is a historical inevitability of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,\u201d declared Beijing\u2019s Taiwan Affairs Office in May, promoting the idea that Taiwan will be absorbed into the People\u2019s Republic of China.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/taiwan-struggle-continues\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recognize\u00a0Taiwan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague, Seth Cropsey\u00a0in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 12 May, New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters stated that his nation will support Taiwan\u2019s inclusion in the World Health Assembly at the organization\u2019s meeting the following week. The Assembly governs the World Health Organization, the international body tasked with fighting pandemics like COVID-19. China has excluded Taiwan from the WHA since 2017, after participating in sessions as an observer since 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/recognize-taiwan\">Read the full article here.<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Taiwan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleagues, John Yoo and Robert J. Delahunty\u00a0in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the confrontation between the United States and China intensifies, Taiwan will occupy a pivotal place. Since becoming the site of the exiled Nationalist Chinese government after the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s (CCP) conquest of mainland China in 1949, the island state has become a flourishing and prosperous liberal democracy boasting the 21st-largest economy in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/taiwan\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan:\u00a0&#8220;The\u00a0Struggle\u00a0Continues&#8221; Please read a new essay by my colleague, Gordon G. Chang\u00a0in Strategika. \u201cReunification is a historical inevitability of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,\u201d declared Beijing\u2019s Taiwan Affairs Office in May, promoting the idea that Taiwan will be absorbed into the People\u2019s Republic of China. Read the full article here. Recognize\u00a0Taiwan Please read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3e9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11979,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-issue-60-the-monroe-doctrine-and-current-u-s-foreign-policy\/","url_meta":{"origin":12409,"position":0},"title":"Strategika Issue 60: The Monroe Doctrine and Current U.S. Foreign Policy","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 6, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The Monroe Doctrine: Guide to the Future Please read a new essay by my colleague, Williamson Murray\u00a0in Strategika. 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