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Cheng, Dean.
Taiwan's Maritime Security: A Critical American Interest.
The Heritage Foundation, March 19, 2014, 12 pages.
"Taiwan's ability to field a modern navy
is an essential element of its national security strategy. The
Taiwan Strait is a key international waterway, and preserving
its stability is in the American interest." (From the Heritage
Foundation)
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Hanauer, Larry and Lyle Morris.
Summary from Chinese Engagement in Africa: Drivers,
Reactions, and Implications for U.S. Policy.
RAND, 2014, 3 pages.
"To effectively engage both China and
Africa, however, the U.S. government needs to devote more time
and effort to understand the benefits that African countries
seek from Chinese engagement, the motivations behind China’s
policies, the ways in which Africans have reacted, and the ways
in which China is positioned to adjust." (From RAND)
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Lohman, Walter.
A China Focused Policy for Southeast Asia.
The Heritage Foundation, March 13, 2014, 6 pages.
"Now and for many decades to come, peace and prosperity in the
Western Pacific will turn on the successful management of
China’s rise, checking its ambitions for territorial
aggrandizement and channeling its growing power through existing
international institutions and norms." (From the Heritage
Foundation)
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《2013年度各國人權報告》──
臺灣部分。
Taiwan 2013 Human Rights Report.
OT-1402, February 27, 2014, 33 pages.
"Taiwan is governed by a president
and a parliament selected in multi-party elections. In
2012 voters re-elected President Ma Ying-jeou of the
Kuomintang Party (KMT) to a second four-year term in an
election considered free and fair. Authorities
maintained effective control over the security forces.
Security forces did not commit human rights abuses."
(From AIT)
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美國在台協會代理處長酈英傑台北市美國商會2014謝年飯致詞稿。
Remarks by AIT Acting Director Brent Christensen
at the 2014 American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei Hsieh
Nien Fan.
OT-1401, March 11, 2014, 6 pages.
"In 2014, as we celebrate the 35th
anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act, it is important
to recall the significant role that the U.S.-Taiwan
friendship has played not just for the United States and
Taiwan, but for the entire Asian region." (From AIT)
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Levinson, Marc.
U.S. Manufacturing in International Perspective.
(CRS Report for Congress)
Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service,
February 20, 2014, 19 pages.
"This report is designed to inform
the debate over the health of U.S. manufacturing through
a series of charts and tables that depict the position
of the United States relative to other countries
according to various metrics." (From CRS Report)
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Tarullo, Daniel K.
Monetary Policy and Financial Stability.
The Federal Reserve System, February 25, 2014, 19 pages.
"While few today would take the pre-crisis view common
among central bankers that financial stability should
not be an explicit concern of monetary policy, there is
considerable disagreement over--among other things--the
weight that financial stability concerns should carry
compared with traditional monetary policy goals of price
stability and maximum employment." (From the Federal
Reserve System)
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Weakley,
Sonya.
No More Benchmarks, Fed’s Yellen Tells Markets.
IIP Digital, March 21, 2014, 2 pages.
"At her first press conference since assuming leadership
of the U.S. central bank, Federal Reserve Board Chair
Janet Yellen said U.S. monetary policy will stay on
course — for now." (From IIP Digital)
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2014 Quadrennial Defense Review.
U.S. Department of Defense, March 4, 2014, 4 pages.
"The QDR describes the tough choices we
are making in a period of fiscal austerity to maintain the
world's finest fighting forces. These including reducing forces
structure in order to protect and expand critical capabilities,
modernizing the forces, and investing in readiness." (From U.S.
Department of Defense)
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Loveless, Tom.
2014 Brown Center Report on American Education: How Well
Are American Students Learning?
The Brookings Institution, March 18, 2014, 4 pages.
"Three studies are presented. All three
revisit a topic that has been investigated in a previous Brown
Center Report. The topics warrant attention again because they
are back in the public spotlight. " (From the Brookings
Institution)
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Sawhill, Isabel V. and Quentin Karpilow.
Youth Unemployment Is a Problem for Social Mobility.
The Brookings Institution, March 5, 2014, 4 pages.
"In 'Strategies for Assisting Low-Income Families,' we argued
that a return to full employment should be first among many
policies needed to boost the economic prospects of struggling
workers. " (From the Brookings Institution)
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Anderson, Janna and Lee Rainie.
Digital Life in 2025.
Pew Research Center, March 11, 2014, 8 pages.
"Experts predict the Internet will become
'like electricity' — less visible, yet more deeply embedded in
people’s lives for good and ill." (From Pew Research Center)
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Jones, Bruce and others.
Executive Summary from the State of the International
Order.
The Brookings Institution, 2014, 2 pages.
"The report examines the purposes of
international order; takes a snapshot of major trends; and
analyzes 11 key characteristics of the order, ranging from great
power security competition to changing dynamics of trade." (From
the Brookings Institution)
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McLaughlin, John.
Black Swans: The Dangers We Could Miss.
OZY, February 20, 2014, 7 pages.
"That's why intelligence officers have to
ask themselves about 'Black Swans'— a term created by scholar
and statistician Nassim Taleb to refer to events that seem
highly improbable but which would have a game-changing impact
were they to occur." (From OZY)
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Rose, Frank A.
Sustaining the Space Environment for the Future.
U.S. Department of State, March 3, 2014, 5 pages.
"All nations are increasingly reliant on
space, not only when disasters strike, but also for our
day-to-day life. We need to protect and preserve our long-term
interests by considering the risks that could harm the space
environment and disrupt services on which the international
community depends." (From U.S. Department of State)
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