UW Professor Saadia Pekkanen has co-authored an article titled, “Governing the Global Commons: Challenges and Opportunities for US-Japan Cooperation,” which was published on Dec. 19, 2022, under Policy Insights, German Marshall Fund online platform.

In her article titled, “Geopolitics goes into orbit with the US and China’s space ambitions,” published by the East Asia Forum on Dec. 7, Saadia Pekkanen analyzes how “space stations are the harbinger of a deepening bipolarity in the international relations of space.”    East Asia Forum is a platform for analysis and research on

James Lin, assistant professor of international studies and an expert in Taiwan history, has authored an article titled, “Taiwan Shouldn’t Be Used as a Geopolitical Pawn,” that was published in Jacobin on Nov. 18, 2022, on the history of U.S.-Taiwan relations.

Jackson School Faculty and China expert David Bachman was interviewed via video by Voice of America (Russian language) about the Chinese Communist Party’s 20th Congress. David’s interview begins around minute 43:43 in the news clip. There is also a text version of the interview (Russian language).

In a New York Times article titled, “Why People Are Flocking to a Symbol of Taiwan’s Authoritarian Past,” about the Jing-Mei human rights museum in Taiwan, James Lin, assistant professor of international studies and an expert on Taiwan, is quoted. The article was published on Oct. 25, 2022.

David Bachman shared perspectives on the growing tension between China and Taiwan in an interview with Morning Wave in Busan, which aired on Oct. 26. Morning Wave in Busan is an early-bird radio program featuring news and current issues and based in Busan, Republic of Korea.

James Lin, assistant professor of international studies and an expert on Taiwan, was quoted in the radio segment “Taiwan celebrates Oct. 10 or ‘Double 10 Day’,” published by NPR’s The World, which is a co-production of PRX and WGBH that broadcasts from Boston, Massachusetts. James Lin provides insight into the changes of identity that young people in Taiwan

James Lin, assistant professor of international studies and an expert on Taiwan, was quoted in the article “Why The Church Shooting Was A Wake-Up Call For Younger Taiwanese Americans To Reflect On Their History,” published by the LAist, which is a publication of KPCC, the public radio station in Southern California. James Lin provides historical

On May 18, 2022, James Lin, assistant professor of international studies and an expert on Taiwan, is quoted in the Al Jazeera news article about Sunday’s attack on a Taiwanese American church in southern California in which one person was killed and five injured by suspected gunman David Chou, who was born in martial-law era Taiwan but

In “UW professors show that Japanese democracy is ‘flourishing’ as co-editors of first Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics,” published today by UW News, Robert Pekkanen and Saadia Pekkanen are interviewed about the state of democracy in Japan and their vision and process of co-editing the first-ever Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics.