Vladimir Terehov

So, two very noteworthy events in the development of the Taiwan problem took place, previously assumed to be possible. This refers to the off-island travels of current Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and her immediate predecessor (between 2008 and 2016) Ma Ying-jeou. Once again, let us pay attention to the conventionality…

Yoshimasa Hayashi, the foreign minister of Japan, paid a visit to China on April 1-2 of this year, and everything that went along with it ended up being rather indicative of the complex and contentious processes going on throughout the Indo-Pacific area as a whole, since during this visit, the complicated relationship between two of the many important participants…

Following the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the parliamentary “Two Sessions,” the Chinese leadership’s involvement in the area of foreign policy has increased in recent weeks. The global optimism of such action stands in stark contrast to the increasingly paranoid and aggressive rhetoric…