The more Hong Kong rises as the focus of the world’s attention because of the defiance of millions of its citizens against Beijing, so to, indirectly, does Taiwan. Taipei and Hong Kong have tended to empathize with each other’s situations. While (...)
Depuis dix jours, les étudiants taïwanais occupent l’Assemblée législative, à Taipei. Ils luttent pour faire retirer l’accord de libre-échange sur le commerce des services entre la Chine et Taïwan (Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement, CSSTA). Ils (...)
Last month’s conference [December 2007] on climate change in Bali, Indonesia, brought the North-South fault line in climate politics into sharp relief. While U.S. intransigence on the question of mandatory cuts in greenhouse gas emissions took (...)