It’s been quite a year for Taiwan and the region.

The News Lens
Date: 2017/12/30
By: Stellina Chen

It’s been a year dominated by U.S. President Donald Trump, his Tweets, and the escalating threat of military action in North Korea following a series of missile tests and that of a nuclear weapon.

“Chinese Envoy, who just returned from North Korea, seems to have had no impact on Little Rocket Man,” Trump said on Twitter in late November, referring to China’s apparent failure to influence North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un.

Trump’s desperation to secure leverage on North Korea through China has framed his Asia-Pacific foreign policy to the detriment of other salient issues, including China’s militarization of islands in the South China Sea, and human rights.    [FULL  STORY]