Gina, you can sleep now. Thierry, same. And Tim — you can finally close that one open eye.Gina Raimondo called it "absolutely devastating." Thierry Breton called it "catastrophic." Tim Cook hasn't said anything publicly — but with Apple's entire silicon future running through one island, everyone knows he checks the Taiwan headlines before bed.The Avoidable Chip War is the book all three of them need to read.US policymakers — you can stop forcing TS...

Book tralier:https://youtu.be/nCHi64LAUL0One grieving man hijacked the sun to shield the powerless. A billionaire turned their survival into a subscription.In a post-AI century where intelligent machines have priced human labor — and human mercy — out of the world, Qiu Fengyang has one weapon left: a shadow. Out of grief for his grandmother and the bulldozed Hakka mountains of his childhood, he smuggles a sentient bacterial swarm to the Earth–Sun L1 point a...

When the Elephants Fight: The Case for a Critical Minerals Community in a G2 WorldThe core argument: the rules-based order isn't being violated — it's being retired. And middle countries are already paying the price. Canada threatened as a "51st state." Greenland treated as a real estate transaction. Japan's rare earth supply cut off for an inconvenient opinion. Taiwan encircled on rehearsal schedules.The brief argues that Chip 4 failed because it was hegem...

Sits in the same time with Tokugawa Ieyasu. This book is the sea version of Shougun!Book trailer:https://youtu.be/3HA4-xpR3-wIn 1661, a Chinese warlord did what every European power believed impossible: he took Taiwan from the Dutch.For nine months, the guns of Fort Zeelandia held the most modern fortress in the East Indies. The Dutch East India Company had a proverb for men like the one massing on the sandbar outside: three volleys, and the Chi...

Taiwan has become a new flashpoint in Sino-U.S. relations in recent years. The nation just concluded its presidential and legislative elections in January 2024. The incumbent Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won a pyrrhic victory—with DPP keeping the presidential seat but losing the majority in Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan (Congress). The political status of Taiwan is one of the few, if not the only, issues that have won bipartisan support. New Developments in the Trilateral Relationshi...

This book explores U.S.-Taiwan-China relations during both the Trump and Biden administrations, revealing how policy changes under both presidents have impacted Washington’s decades-long strategic policy framework for Cross-Strait Relations.By tracing the continuities and changes of U.S. Strategic ambiguity and One-China Policy framework between the Trump and Biden administrations, the book assesses how the foreign policy prism, through which U.S. leaders view China and Taiwan, has...

One of the most exciting areas of polymer research is the study of interfacial phenomena and their practical applications. This major work reviews the key research in this important area and is used in such areas as biomaterials.Part one looks at the thermodynamics, kinetics and other fundamental properties of polymer surfaces and interfaces. The second part of the book reviews ways of characterising and manipulating interfacial phenomena. It includes examples of practical applications suc...

Ideal for oculoplastic, facial plastic and cosmetic dermatologic surgeons, Dr. Chen's Asian Blepharoplasty and the Eyelid Crease was designed to help you master the latest techniques used in this highly popular surgery. Comprehensively updated, this multimedia resource features the addition of eight new chapters covering today's most advanced concepts; and enhanced full-color artworks. You'll have access to all the core knowledge necessary in offering spectacular results for those patients...

This book examines changes in Taiwan’s policies toward Mainland China under former Republic of China (ROC) President Ma Ying-jeou (2008-16) and considers their implications for US policy toward the Taiwan Strait. In recent years, the People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s increasingly assertive foreign policy behaviors have heightened tensions with its regional neighbors as well as the United States. However, under the Kuomintang (KMT) administration of Ma Ying-jeou, Taiwan discounted Beijing’...

This book is concerned with trainee professionals and their search for meaning through the determined and creative pursuit of a cross-cultural career transition. Adopting a qualitative research framework, the book describes the career experience of professional trainees from non-Western cultures who have chosen to develop their careers in the West. It examines the process of the initial consideration of change, the exploring of options (including whether to emigrate) and how the many issue...

As a member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, I am necessarily concerned about the future role of Communist China in world affairs. A true understanding of Peking's foreign policy motives and objectives is possible only if one has a grasp of the ideological foundations and conflicts of the contemporary leaders of the Chinese Communist Party. Therein lies the value of Professor Yung Ping Chen's revised edition Chinese Political Thought: Mao Tse-tung and...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings at PAKDD Workshops 2014, held in conjunction with the 18th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) held in Tainan, Taiwan, in May 2014.The 73 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 179 submissions. The workshops affiliated with PAKDD 2014 include: Data Analytics for Targeted Healthcare, DANTH; Data Mining and Decision Analytics for Public Health and Wellness, DMDA-Health; Biolo...