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Taiwan’s Purchases of U.S. Defense Equipment and the Impact of Offset Agreements
(Georgetown University, 2020)The government of Taiwan has an obligation to provide security from international threats. The credibility of security deterrence relies on the acquisition of modern defense equipment. Taiwan does not possess the resources ... -
The Center Cannot Hold: Explaining the Volatile Perception Towards the United States Among the South Korean Public, 2003-2008
(Georgetown University, 2023)From 2003 to 2008, South Korea experienced a unique period of volatile perception towards the United States. After an explosion of anti-American perception in 2002, citizens of South Korea continued to display a level of ... -
The China-South Korea relationship after the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) controversy: Diplomacy, Security, Economy, and Public Opinion areas
(Georgetown University, 2021)In 2015, the ROK-China was achieved the best diplomatic relations since 1992. However, with the US-China competition intensifying, the ROK-China relations experienced unprecedented deterioration with the THAAD controversy ... -
The Consequences of Confucius Institutes: Understanding the Opposition
(Georgetown University, 2018)Confucius Institutes (CIs) are Chinese public educational organizations that promote Chinese language and culture around the world. The Chinese government has invested over $1 billion in establishing 500 of these CIs in ... -
The Democratic Pressure: New Constraints on Japan's Military Buildup in the 21st Century
(Georgetown University, 2017)Why has the Abe administration maintained its defense spending at 1 percent of its GDP despite the deteriorating regional security environment, conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s willingness to play an active role ... -
The Economics of Cross Strait Instability: The Methods and Limits of China's Economic Coercion against Taiwan
(Georgetown University, 2020)This article examines the ways China employs economic coercion to influence Taiwan, and the limitations of these tactics in influencing Taiwan’s domestic politics. Although there is ample research conducted on the broader ... -
The Golden Key to South Korea’s Popular Culture’s Sensation in the West
(Georgetown University, 2023)Continuing my work from my senior thesis as an undergraduate at Princeton University this master’s thesis dives into the niche aesthetic of Hallyu. The purpose is to expose that at the most deconstructed level of the success ... -
The More Avid Historian? A Comparison between Kim Jong Il’s and Kim Jong Un’s Uses and Usage Rates of the Korean War as a Heuristic in Korean Central News Agency, 1998-2018
(Georgetown University, 2020)Purpose: While many scholars have traced how the Kim regimes merged the Korean War into North Korea’s national narrative, no one has conducted a systematic study of how the Kims subsequently wielded the civil war story to ... -
The Threshold of Jihadism: Securing Patronage in Southern Thailand and the Philippines
(Georgetown University, 2019)The issue of southern Thailand becoming the next battleground for international jihadist terrorist organizations—such as al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or Jemaah Islamiyah—has reemerged as a prominent ... -
Transparency and Opacity: The U.S.-Chinese Strategic Relationship
(Georgetown University, 2015)As the United States has pursued a strategy of engagement in response to China's rise, bilateral relations have steadily increased with one notable exception—the U.S.-Chinese security relationship. In many respects, this ... -
Victim and Accomplice? The Role of Overseas Chinese in China’s Foreign Interference Activities in the Xi Jinping Era
(Georgetown University, 2021)Drawing upon previous diaspora studies’ findings and a wide range of primary data including government policy documents, archives, and news articles, this paper first provides an overview of the history and origins of ... -
Why Effective Government Interventions Can Lead to Efficient Market Reform in China
(Georgetown University, 2017)This paper argues that the current Chinese government believes market reform has the best chance to succeed if it is gradual, experimental and aided by government interventions. In 2016, for the first time in over a decade, ...
