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' Taipei submitting to demands for nationalist self-determination at home will result in greater dependency and shifts of the U.S.'s One-China policy.'

Abe should not lose sight of the perils of a charm offensive with Moscow, especially in the wake of the Donald Trump victory, argues Dmitry Flippov.

The incoming Trump administration is clearly intent on changing Beijing’s behavior, argues David Brown.

‘I think it is important that Taiwan knows we are going to live up to the commitments under the Relations Act and Six Issues Accord,’ Tillerson said.

'Trump has one basic strategy: Seize the initiative and never let it go," writes Courtney Donovan Smith.

China and the United States have a responsibility to temper their actions and rhetoric in the South China Sea and keep their eyes on the bigger global and regional pictures.

A high-profile Chinese dissident sees U.S. President-elect Donald Trump as a potential game changer for human rights in China.

China has frequently tested U.S. leaders as soon as they take office and Trump’s statements have raised the stakes for Beijing.

Amid a thinning number of Southeast Asian allies, and a reenergized charm offensive from China, the question now is how U.S. President-elect Trump will approach the region.

'When taken and used as a commodity, food is no longer an inherited culture.'

While punishing Taiwan may be Beijing’s proximate aim, China may also hope to convince the Trump administration that closer engagement with Taipei isn’t in their interests, as this will inevitably lead to renewed instability in the Taiwan Strait, argues J. Michael Cole

Does the historic Trump-Tsai call mark the beginning of the end for America's long-held strategy with China?

While continuing to deepen diplomatic and economic relations with the United States and the West, Aung San Suu Kyi has avoided adopting positions on divisive strategic matters such as the South and East China Sea disputes

 So what does this portend for U.S.-Taiwan-China relations under the Trump administration?

The conversation, which took place on Friday, is thought to be the first time a president or president-elect of the United States has directly talked to the leader of Taiwan since 1979.

As China prepares to open a national carbon market, no immediate emissions reduction is expected when it opens next year, but its huge scale provides hope for reductions from 2020 onwards.

We cannot count on Trump to be an isolationist; this common expectation is misguided and based in an oversimplification of his rhetoric, argues Alek Chance.

Will Trump attend next year’s ASEAN–U.S. Summit in Manila? The decision will have far-reaching implications.