标题: China and Taiwan’s Elections [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 12-4-2014 11:35 标题: China and Taiwan’s Elections Ralph Jennings, The Real Loser In Taiwan's Surprise Vote Against Pro-China Ruling Party. Forbes, Dec 3, 2014 (blog, not in the magazine). www.forbes.com/sites/ralphjennin ... china-ruling-party/
Note: “A future Democratic Progressive Party government would inherit these wins and Beijing would come off as the petulant, spoiled child if it then yanked them away.”
Note:
(a) President Obama is wiating for Mr Ashton Carter's background check.
(b) "Then-RAND Corp researcher Evan Medeiros, who is now the top White House official on Asia policy, also joined the trip."
(i) Mr Medeiros is now Senior Director for Asian Affairs, US National Security Council.
(ii) The trip:
William J Perry, Joseph W Prueher, Robert D Blackwill, Ashton B Carter, Stephen A Orlins, David M Lampton, Kurt M Campbell, Ashley Tellis, Evan Medeiros, and Jan Berris, Preventive Defense Project (PDP), Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Univeristy. (trip: June 22 - July 1, 2008)
belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/18450/report_of_the_strategic_security_issues_delegation_to_taiwan_and_the_peoples_republic_of_china_prc.html
The trip was reported but the emphasis was on Mr Campbell, who was expected to be nominated as assistant secretary of state.