Despite the popularity of the “status quo” approach to China, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will nevertheless have to maintain her own front against China, as disunity would create opportunities for Beijing to weaken democratic institutions and exacerbate domestic instability.
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China’s level of commitment to UNMISS objectives—and thus the general principles it would be expected to uphold in a DPKO leadership role—has been called into question.
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An overly sanguine response would nonetheless ignore the fact that the immediate result of an anti-China ruling might be no more than formalized rejection of its actions, which will likely continue apace.
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Indonesia’s well-crafted ambiguity and position of neutrality in the South China Sea has increasingly come under scrutiny from members of the nation’s strategic community.
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The outrage in Taiwan, which sparked a rare moment of unity in the island nation’s deeply divided political scene, stemmed from Nairobi’s decision to deport the suspects to China rather than Taiwan, even after the Kenyan High Court had cleared them of involvement in telecommunications fraud and given them three weeks to leave the country.
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The great risk remains that this pattern of action and reaction might eventually escalate into conflict, as a top Chinese official acknowledged, or perhaps warned, yesterday.
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South Sudan’s civil war, and the threat it poses to China’s growing economic and political interests in the country, has now tested the limits of China’s policy—espoused in 1955 by then-premier Zhou Enlai—of not interfering in the “internal” affairs of other states.
