Taiwan at the Center of a Fragile US-China Rapprochement

Renewed dialogue is transforming Taiwan arms transfers from routine policy into negotiated signaling.

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On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump said he was discussing the issue of arms sales to Taiwan with his Chinese counterpart, a very strategically telling development in U.S.-China relations. The statement suggests that the supply of U.S. weapons to Taiwan, long handled as routine bureaucratic transfers under the Taiwan Relations Act, may now be subject […]

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Victoria Herczegh
Viktória Herczegh is an analyst at Geopolitical Futures. She is also a PhD candidate at the Political Science and International Relations Doctoral School of Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. Her PhD research topic is "Double Standards projected by Great Powers". Ms. Herczegh holds a bachelor's degree of Chinese Language and Culture and a master's degree of East Asian Studies. She also spent one semester at Shanghai International Studies University studying Mandarin Chinese. Ms. Herczegh is a native Hungarian fluent in English, Spanish, French and Mandarin.