
USTBC President Taipei Times Editorial on Canaries in the US-Taiwan Coal Mine
USTBC President Rupert Hammond-Chambers editorial in the Taipei Times: Canaries in the US-Taiwan Coal Mine

USTBC President Rupert Hammond-Chambers editorial in the Taipei Times: Canaries in the US-Taiwan Coal Mine

On May 21, 2025, GTI’s Global Taiwan Brief published an article about U.S.-China-Taiwan trade written by the US-Taiwan Business Council spring 2025 intern Annie Tseng.

USTBC President Rupert Hammond-Chambers editorial in the Taipei Times: Trump should bolster ‘arsenal of democracy’ to meet China threat
The term “Mainland China” tacitly implies that Taiwan is part of Chinese territory. Analysts and journalists frequently use the term “mainland” to refer to the PRC. The term appears in most writings about Taiwan, China, and cross-Strait relations. A search yields the following definition: Mainland: A large continuous extent of land that includes the greater […]
Should Taiwan and China join together in the future, they would unify. By definition, they can never reunify. The term reunify is problematic, because it falsely implies that Taiwan and China were once a single entity that then split. This is incorrect. The Republic of China (Taiwan) has never been a part of the People’s […]