The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design That Changed the World
by James Ashton · 11 May 2023 · 401pp · 113,586 words
. For 25 years, there hadn’t been a US visit of this magnitude to Taiwan, an island that China regarded as its own. Under its ‘One China’ policy, Washington had been careful to acknowledge Beijing’s position that there was only one Chinese government, and it did not have formal diplomatic relations with
Independent Diplomat: Dispatches From an Unaccountable Elite
by Carne Ross · 25 Apr 2007 · 212pp · 68,690 words
with their assurances to date.” “We welcome the recent elections in Ukraine.” “Our interests in China versus those in Taiwan dictate the continuation of the One-China policy.” This was how I spoke with journalists. It was how I talked in negotiations with other diplomats: “We do not agree with your proposed text
Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Gobal Crisis
by James Rickards · 10 Nov 2011 · 381pp · 101,559 words
and did not think much about alternative scenarios. * * * [conditioned or contingent?] * * * We set about preparing our responses to the problem at hand. China reiterated its “One China” policy and warned other nations not to support the Taiwanese initiative. Japan tried to promote an Asian Free Trade Area that would welcome both China and
Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century
by Mark Leonard · 4 Sep 2000 · 131pp · 41,052 words
fostering regional integration are to take off. There are many things that could stand in the way. The resurgent nationalism of public opinion and the ‘One China’ policy that aims to stop Taiwan from declaring its independence at ‘any price’ are frightening to European observers. The Chinese government’s voracious appetite for energy
China into Africa: trade, aid, and influence
by Robert I. Rotberg · 15 Nov 2008 · 651pp · 135,818 words
establishment of China’s first special economic and trade zone, in the Chambishi mining area.15 Zambia, in turn, promised to continue to back the one-China policy and to oppose “Taiwanese independence” in any form.16 Behind the usual rhetoric, the most important announcement was the establishment of the SEZs in Chambishi
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countries reestablished relations with Taiwan (Belize, Central African Republic [CAR], Grenada, Liberia, and Lesotho). China responded by breaking diplomatic relations, in accord with its strict “one-China” policy. Within months, these five countries were enjoying generous new aid projects. Taiwan also promised to complete any unfinished Chinese projects. African countries that switched back
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, 165–67; naval strategy and, 184; 266; Darfur and, 12–13 South Africa and, 169; Zambia and, ONCC Videsh, 120 173; Zimbabwe and, 174–75 One-China policy, 211; Zambia and, Persian Gulf, 181, 184 143 Petrobras, 122 One-party states, 238–39, 242, 287 Petrodar, 257 Operation Gukurahundi, 260 Petronas, 256 Operation
The Retreat of Western Liberalism
by Edward Luce · 20 Apr 2017 · 223pp · 58,732 words
, Washington’s foreign policy experts instantly grasped how reckless this was. Since 1979, America – and most of the rest of the world – has accepted the ‘One China’ policy that entailed exclusive recognition of China. But the rest of us were slow to pick up on its implications. This was Trump messing with his
Executive Orders
by Tom Clancy · 2 Jan 1996
its utmost to determine what took place, and then to decide upon a proper course of action. Very well, Mr. President. Do we have a one-China policy, or a two-China policy? We have made no changes. Might a change result from this incident? I will not speculate on something so important
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the Holocaust, an event his father had survived, with a number tattooed on his forearm to prove it. Even his own country officially had a one-China policy, though the unspoken codicil was that the PRC would not attack the ROC-and if it did, then America might just react. Or might not
The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power
by Jacob Helberg · 11 Oct 2021 · 521pp · 118,183 words
-and-Prosperity/index.html. 77 “Tiffany Introduces Bill to Scrap ‘One China Policy,’ Resume Normal Ties with Taiwan,” Congressman Tom Tiffany, September 17, 2020, https://tiffany.house.gov/media/press-releases/tiffany-introduces-bill-scrap-one-china-policy-resume-normal-ties-taiwan; John Bolton, “Revisit the ‘One-China Policy,’ ” Wall Street Journal, January 16, 2017, https://www.wsj.com
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/articles/revisit-the-one-china-policy-1484611627. 78 “U.S. Relations With Taiwan,” U.S. Department of State, August 31
The Currency Cold War: Cash and Cryptography, Hash Rates and Hegemony
by David G. W. Birch · 14 Apr 2020 · 247pp · 60,543 words
States as a trade partner because it has built a network of more than 150 countries that operate under the guiding principles of the Global One China Policy (Webb 2019). These countries have network access and the ability to trade within a stable financial system backed by Beijing, and their citizens are free
When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Rise of the Middle Kingdom
by Martin Jacques · 12 Nov 2009 · 859pp · 204,092 words
development, a growing sense of Taiwanese identity culminating in the electoral defeat of the Kuomintang (KMT), which, in principle at least, had always supported a one-China policy, and the victory of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). After the election of the DPP’s Chen Shui-bian as president in 2000
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
by Amy Webb · 5 Mar 2019 · 340pp · 97,723 words
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
by Richard McGregor · 8 Jun 2010
Destined for War: America, China, and Thucydides's Trap
by Graham Allison · 29 May 2017 · 518pp · 128,324 words
Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order
by Bruno Maçães · 1 Feb 2019 · 281pp · 69,107 words
Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet
by Edward Luce · 13 May 2025 · 612pp · 235,188 words
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town
by Beth Macy · 14 Jul 2014 · 473pp · 140,480 words