Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com After Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou was re-elected to a second four-year term last weekend, he faces intensifying pressure from Beijing to start “reunification talks.” Immediately after defeating Tsai Ing-wen, the moderate leader of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Ma told the media that he was in no […]
By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Since the mid-2000s, “authoritarian resilience” has been a fashionable theory put forward by a host of famous Western Sinologists for explaining the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ability to hold on to power. The theory goes that the authoritarian regime has strengthened its proverbial “mandate of heaven” by making smart policy adaptations […]
