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- 共創美台關係發展新未來 - 美國在台協會處長梅健華政治大學演說稿。
U. S.-Taiwan Relations: Our Shared Future.
Remarks by AIT Director Kin Moy at
National Chengchi University
OT-1603, April 28, 2016, 8 pages.
“I’d like to talk about what we at AIT are doing to
promote strong relations between the United States and Taiwan and to shape our
common future. With our shared values
and shared interests, our futures are intertwined. I’d also like to talk about some of the ways
the United States and Taiwan are connected, and describe how we at AIT, as we
advance U.S.-Taiwan relations, are doing things that are having an impact,
including on the issues that matter to young people. “(From
AIT)
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Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices for 2015: Taiwan: Executive Summary.
OT-1602C, April
14, 2016, 15 pages.
“Taiwan is governed by a president and a
parliament selected in multiparty 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. Civilian authorities maintained
effective control over the security forces.” (From AIT)
- Russel, Daniel R.
Remarks at "China's Growing Pains" Conference.
U.S.
Department of State, April 22, 2016, 4 pages.
“The context for the progress we’ve made with China includes the
President’s active engagement with ASEAN and each of its 10 member countries,
as well as the quality of our alliances - particularly with Australia, South
Korea, and Japan. It also includes our support for democratic Taiwan and for
universal values and human rights; the successful negotiation of TPP and the
strength of U.S. businesses and investors across the region. It also includes
the credibility of our security presence.” (From U.S. Department of State)
- Cropsey, Seth
New American Grand Strategy.
Hudson Institute, April 13, 2016, 7 pages.
“The U.S. today faces a heretofore
unfamiliar strategic challenge, the possibility of three linked hegemonies that
span the Eurasian land mass. Russia is on the ramparts in Ukraine, Georgia, and
the Middle East. Its Baltic State ambitions are not a secret. NATO’s failure to
respond in a real crisis means the alliance’s end and a maturing Russian
hegemony that stretches from Central Asia to the Atlantic. China actively seeks
to become Asia’s hegemon. Iran’s rulers, armed with missiles of increasing
range, added financial resources, and the likelihood of nuclear weapons, have
their eye on dominating the strategic space between Moscow’s influence and Beijing’s.”
(From Hudson Institute)
- Goldberg, Jeffrey.
The Obama Doctrine.
The Atlantic, April 2016, 20 pages.
“The U.S. president talks through his hardest
decisions about America’s role in the world.” (From the Atlantic)
- Lohman, Walter.
After the Rebalance to Asia.
The Heritage Foundation, March 31, 2016, 8 pages.
“The ‘rebalance’ has been very carefully
considered from virtually every angle. Now, in the midst of a political season
in which Americans are debating their nation’s role in the world, it is time to
take stock and start looking beyond the rebalance to the time when a new
Administration will take ownership of Asia policy.” (From the Heritage
Foundation)
- Renwick, Danielle
and others.
U.S.-Cuba
Relations.
Council on Foreign
Relation, March 24, 2016, 5 pages.
“Since the 1960s, successive U.S.
administrations have maintained a policy of economic sanctions and diplomatic
isolation of Cuba. The change in the countries' relations, initially marked by
a prisoner swap and Havana's release of a jailed U.S. subcontractor in December
2015, prompted some experts to point to better prospects for Cuba’s economy and
U.S. relations more broadly in Latin America..” (From Council on Foreign
Relation)
- Martin, Michael F.
What’s the
Difference?—Comparing U.S. and Chinese Trade Data.
Washington, D.C. : Congressional Research Service, March 24, 2016, 11
pages.
“This paper examines the differences in the
trade data from the two nations in two ways. First, it compares the trade
figures using the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System
(Harmonized System) to discern any patterns in the discrepancies between the
U.S. and Chinese data. The second approach to examining the differing trade
data involves a review of the existing literature on the technical and
non-technical sources of the trade data discrepancies. ” (From CRS Report)
- 10. 2016 Trade Policy Agenda and 2015 Annual Report of
the President of the United States on the Trade Agreements Program.
Office of the United States Trade Representatives, March 26 2014, 375 pages.
“President Obama’s trade agenda seeks to promote growth, support well-paying
jobs in the United States, and strengthen the middle class. Trade policy done
right serves the American people: workers and families, farmers and ranchers,
innovators and entrepreneurs, and businesses of all sizes.” (From the USTR)
- The 2016 National Trade Estimate Report:
Taiwan.
Office of the United States Trade
Representatives, March 26 2016, 8 pages.
“The U.S. goods trade deficit with Taiwan was $14.8 billion
in 2015, a 6.2 percent increase ($868 million) over 2014. U.S. goods exports to
Taiwan were $25.9 billion, down 2.8 percent ($741 million) from the previous
year. Corresponding U.S. imports from Taiwan were $40.7 billion, up 0.3
percent. Taiwan was the United States' 14th largest goods export market in
2015.” (From the USTR)
- Campaign Exposes Fissures Over Issues, Values
and How Life Has Changed in the U.S.
Pew
Research Center, March 31, 2015, 8 pages.
“The 2016 presidential campaign has exposed deep
disagreements between – and within – the two parties on a range of major policy
issues. But these divisions go well beyond the issues and extend to
fundamentally different visions of the way that life in the United States has
changed.” (From Pew Research Center)
Cohn, D'Vera
and Andrea Caumont.
10 Demographic
Trends that are Shaping the U.S. and the World.
Pew
Research Center, March 31, 2016, 5 pages.
“At its core, demography is the act of counting
people. But it’s also important to study the forces that are driving population
change, and measure how these changes have an impact on people’s lives. For
this year’s Population Association of America (PAA) annual meeting, here is a
roundup of some of Pew Research Center’s recent demography-related findings
that tell us how America and the world are changing.” (From Pew Research
Center)- Lucas, Nathan,
J. and Kathleen J. McInnis.
The 2015
National Security Strategy: Authorities, Changes, Issues for Congress.
Washington, D.C. : Congressional Research
Service, April 5, 2016, 26 pages.
“The 2015 report retains much of the underlying
thought of the 2010 version. However, its emphasis appears to shift away from
the U.S. role in the world being largely a catalyst for action by international
institutions to one that reflects more involved leadership both inside those
institutions and between nations. It also takes a tougher line with both China
and with Russia, while emphasizing the desirability for cooperation with both.”
(From CRS Report)
- Archick, Kristin and Paul Belkin.
CRS
Insight: European Security and Islamist Terrorism.
Washington, D.C. : Congressional Research
Service, March 29, 2015, 3 pages.
“President Obama strongly
condemned the terrorist attacks in Brussels and asserted U.S. support for
Belgium, the EU, and NATO which is also headquartered in Brussels. The attacks
may raise additional questions in Congress about U.S.-led military efforts to
counter the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, and they may prompt further scrutiny
of airport security.” (From CRS Report)
- Southerland,
Matthew
China’s Island
Building in the South China Sea: Damage to the Marine Environment,
Implications, and International Law.
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, April
12, 2016, 10 pages.
“Prior to the commencement of China’s dredging
and island building in the Spratly Islands, the South China Sea’s coral reefs
were already under heavy stress. Coral loss due to bleaching, disease, and
destructive fishing methods has occurred, and these reefs, like others around
the world, face threats from ocean acidification and rising sea levels.” (From U.S.-China
Economic and Security Review Commission)
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