Evaluating US-China and US-Taiwan relations

Recently, in the latest development in the complicated web of Taiwan-China-US relations, China ordered many foreign airlines, including American airlines like United Airlines to reference Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau as Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, China and Macau, China to avoid misconceptions. The issue was that China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs felt that the language...

US Abrupt Shift in Policy Regarding North Korea

On Saturday, March 10th, President Trump made a decision that could change the course of US Foreign Policy with North Korea. In a meeting with Chung Eui-Yong, South Korean national security advisor, Trump agreed to hold talks with North Kore and South Korea, marking the first time such a conference had been held in over...

United States recognizes Jerusalem to be the Capital of Israel

On December 6th, 2017, in a historic act that had not been taken by any US president since the foundation of Israel,  President Trump announced that the US now officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Although Israel claims that Jerusalem is its capital, because of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, most nations and the...

Turkey: Shifting from West to East

Turkey has been a key ally of the United States since the end of World War II period and relations between the two were extremely friendly up until very recently. However, around a week ago, Russia, Turkey, and Iran held a joint meeting to discuss their "mutual interests". The US and Russia have not always...