Though the 2014 energy deal between China and Russia was viewed as a union of anti-American countries, the partnership may have also prompted Russia to agree to the Iranian nuclear arms deal with the West. Continue Reading
On Feb. 11, 2015, the Taiwanese Ministry of Justice indicted 118 people for their involvement in the Sunflower Student Movement, the largest student-led demonstration in Taiwan’s history. In March and April 2014, around 300 protesters charged into the Legislative Yuan,… Continue Reading
In a July chock full of bad news, China’s State Council has some good news for hundreds of millions of Chinese peasants: they are on their way to being treated the same under the law as those lucky enough to… Continue Reading
Though headlines focus on the latest developments in Ukraine, the crisis has created a ripple effect around the world. The escalating conflict has even impacted events at the Baker Institute: An April 14 program featuring Børge Brende, Norway’s minister of foreign affairs, was postponed when he was asked to return to Oslo for meetings on the unfolding Ukraine-related crisis in Europe. Similarly, Georgiy Mamedov, Russia’s ambassador to Canada, cancelled an April 16 Baker Institute event on policy and politics in Russian-American relations. Continue Reading
December saw two major Chinese media interactions with global leaders: British Prime Minister David Cameron’s meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang as well as Joe Biden’s visit. China’s Global Times used Cameron’s genial praise to the PRC to show that the U.K. has become a diminishing empire. At the same time, during his visit to China in early December, Vice President Joe Biden pressed China on its restriction of foreign journalists’ visas. Continue Reading
NASA and the space industry need a new generation of problem solvers to answer the questions that will shape our future, but right now, they don’t have it. Continue Reading
President Obama has been very savvy in his strategic communications with the Chinese people, treating them rhetorically as intelligent, sophisticated, freedom-loving people who are – unfortunately and temporarily — ruled by a one-party state. A public unfashionably wearing handcuffs. In… Continue Reading