Battlefield

The 'strategic ambiguity' posed by the long-standing 'Taiwan question' over Taiwan's international status may finally be headed to resolution--not in Taipei but in Washington, D.C.

The District of Columbia U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has handed the 'Taiwan question' to President Barack Obama with a note marked urgent. In declining to review the 1952 San Francisco Peace Treaty, where Japan ceded all claims to Formosa and the Pescadores Islands that make up Taiwan, the federal appellate ...