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- 美國在台協會處長梅健華台北美國商會謝年飯致詞。
Remarks by AIT Director Kin Moy at the American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei Hsieh Nien Fan.
OT-1702, March 22, 2017, 2 pages.
“There is tremendous enthusiasm for expanding trade and investment ties in ways that would bring mutual benefit, reinforce our shared values, and demonstrate renewed commitment to advancing our shared goals for the Asia-Pacific region.” (From AIT)
- 美國在台協會代理副處長馬志安科技授權專家對談致詞。
Remarks by AIT Acting Deputy Director Christian Marchant at the Technology Licensing Expert Dialogue Thursday, March 30, 2017 AIT American Center.
OT-1703, March 30, 2017, 2 pages.
“The benefits of licensing partnerships extend both ways. In an intensely competitive global business climate, access to the latest technology can be a decisive factor in winning new customers” (From AIT)
- 2016年度《各國人權報告》- 台灣部分.
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2016: Taiwan.
OT-1701, March 3, 2017, 14 pages.
“Taiwan is governed by a president and a parliament selected in multiparty elections. In 2016 voters elected President Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party to a four-year term in an election considered free and fair. Civilian authorities maintained effective control over the security forces. Principal human rights problems reported during the year were exploitation of foreign workers, including foreign crewmembers on long-haul fishing vessels and household caregivers; domestic violence; and official corruption.” (From AIT)
- Alterman, Jon B.
世界彼岸: 中國、美國與中東安全角逐。
The Other Side of the World: China, the United States, and the Struggle for Middle East Security.
Center for Strategic and International Studies, March 14, 2017, 32 pages.
“This report considers the ways in which the U.S. and Chinese governments have approached the Middle East and the Asian space leading to it and the implications that potential shifts would have not only for their bilateral ties but also for the future of geopolitics more broadly.” (From the CSIS)
- Lind, Jennifer.
Asia's Other Revisionist Power: Why U.S. Grand Strategy Unnerves China.
Foreign Affairs, March/April 2017, 10 pages.
“China is not the only revisionist power in the U.S.-Chinese relationship. Since the end of World War II, the United States has pursued a strategy aimed at overturning the status quo by spreading liberalism, free markets, and U.S. influence around the world. Just as Chinese revisionism alarms Washington, the United States’ posture stokes fear in Beijing and beyond. As Trump begins his presidency, he would do well to understand this fear. The risk of crises, and even war, will grow if Trump introduces instability into areas of the relationship that posed few problems under previous U.S. administrations. But Trump could ease tensions if he pursues a less revisionist strategy than his predecessors.” (From Foreign Affairs)
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Fefer, Rachel F. and Vivian C. Jones.
WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement.
Washington, D.C. : Congressional Research Service, March 3, 2017, 19 pages.
“The Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), finalized in December 2013, is the newest international trade agreement in the World Trade Organization (WTO), having entered into force on February 22, 2017, when two-thirds of WTO members, including the United States, ratified the multilateral agreement. Congress has an interest in the TFA since it may affect U.S. trade flows, the U.S. economy, and international capacity building efforts. This report provides an overview of the TFA, its provisions, and the United States’ implementation and role in capacity building, and provides options for Congress to consider in relation to the TFA.” (From CRS report)
- Fischer, Stanley.
Monetary Policy: By Rule, By Committee, or By Both?
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, March 03, 2017, 8 pages.
“l would like to elaborate on some of the features of committees that have contributed to their prevalence in monetary policymaking. I will then discuss monetary policy rules and some of the difficulties in developing robust rules for policy.” (From Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)
- McBride, James.
The Role of the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Council on Foreign Relations, March 15, 2017, 6 pages.
“The U.S. central banking system—the Federal Reserve, or the Fed—has come under heightened scrutiny in the wake of the 2007–2009 global financial crisis, even as its role in setting economic policy dramatically expanded. The Fed’s policy of maintaining low interest rates throughout the early 2000s, which resulted in cheaper mortgages, is cited by many economists as a major factor in the housing bubble, although some dispute this. Post-crisis, the Fed has faced scrutiny for its unprecedented large-scale intervention in the bond markets, including three rounds of so-called quantitative easing (QE) that helped sustain the recovery but transformed the Fed into an investment vehicle with an open-ended mandate to create money. As a result of QE, by early 2017 the Fed's total assets had surged to nearly $4.5 trillion, up from $869 billion in August 2007.” (From Council on Foreign Relations)
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Loveless, Tom and Fred Dews.
2017 Brown Center Report on American Education: How Well Are American
Students Learning?
The Brookings Institution, March 24, 2016, 40 pages.
“This report comprises three studies. The first section features recent results from state, national, or international assessment; the second section investigates a thematic topic in education, either by collecting new data or by analyzing existing empirical evidence in a novel way; and the third section looks at one or more education policies.” (From the Brookings Institution)
- Beauchamp-Mustafaga, Nathan.
PacNet #22 - North Korea’s Weak Nuclear C2 Challenges Korean Crisis Stability.
Center for Strategic and International Studies, March 14, 2017, 2 pages.
“North Korea’s steady march toward a credible, survivable second-strike nuclear capability is changing the nature of a potential conflict on the Korean Peninsula. The deployment of a road-mobile nuc lear intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), now expected by the early 2020s, will dramatically expand the geographical confines of the next crisis and mark the first time a non-allied country has developed the c apability to credibly strike the continental United States since China in 1981. As the Trump administration reviews North Korea policy against the backdrop of rising tensions over recent DPRK missile tests, it should consider whether to support limited and likely indirect nuclear command and control (C2) assistance – specifically negative controls to prevent unauthorized nuclear employment – to North Korea to enhance crisis stability” (From the CSIS)
- Connor, Phillip.
European Asylum Applications Remained near Record Levels in 2016.
Pew Research Center, March 15, 2017, 3 pages.
“Europe’s record for annual asylum applications was nearly broken last year, but the numbers trailed off considerably by the end of 2016 and fell short of the previous year’s peak surge in late summer and early fall. In 2016, European Union countries, Norway and Switzerland received more than 1.2 million asylum applications, only about 92,000 fewer than the record 1.3 million applications received in 2015, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of recently released data from Eurostat, Europe’s statistical agency.” (From Pew Research Center)
- Enos, Olivia.
Human Rights in Hong Kong Are at a Tipping Point.
Forbes, March 5, 2017, 3 pages.
“The U.S. has long encouraged Hong Kong, an economically free and prosperous state, to let its residents exercise political and individual rights to the highest degree possible. To reaffirm that stance—and to address the erosion of freedom and rights in Hong Kong over the last couple of years—Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) recently reintroduced the Hong Kong Democracy and Human Rights Act.” (From Forbes)
- 如何辨別網路資訊的真偽？
How Do You Kno w if What You’re Seeing Online is True?
Share America, Mar 21, 2017. 3 pages.
“Between news, blogs and social media sites, almost anything can be published online with the click of a button. But is what you’re reading, seeing or hearing real? These free websites and add-ons help clear up the confusion.” (From Share America)
- 拉斯維加斯和巴黎試行無人駕駛車。
Las Vegas and Paris Experiment with Driverless Cars.
Share America, Feb 13, 2017, 2 pages.
“More cities across the world are experimenting with driverless vehicles on public streets. Two of the latest to condu ct testing are Las Vegas and Paris. Both cities have used self-driving electric buses to carry passengers on short rides to try out the technology and see how humans react to it.” (From Share America)
- The Changing Landscape of Disruptive Technologies.
KPMG, March 3, 2017. 32 pages.
“Though other countries have made significant strides in innovation development, the U.S. and China continue as the most promising markets for technology breakthroughs that have global impact. As tech innovations unfold, China is stacking up to the United States as a leading force. Global tech industry leaders indicated, in KPMG’s tech innovation surve y, the United States and China are the world’s dominant tech epicenters with the greatest potential to develop disruptive technology breakthroughs that will have a global impact. The strong showing for these two mega-powers is relatively consistent with earlier KPMG surveys, although this year’s poll reflects a slight uptick for China—25 percent compared with 23 percent the prior year.” (From KPMG)
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