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Taiwan cooking oil scandal: Why Isn’t Beijing Adding Fuel to the Fire? • Isabelle Feng

31 July 2026 No Comments

In this new piece, Isabelle Feng looks back at the tainted cooking oil scandal that has affected Taiwan for several weeks, and at Beijing’s measured response to the affair. She examines the protests held in Taipei on 25 July, the coverage of the event by Chinese state media, and reactions observed on Chinese social media. She puts this episode in perspective alongside the history of food safety scandals in mainland China and the question of freedom to protest on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

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Assessing the Reliability of Abe and Trump’s Relationship in Light of Past Efforts and Future Uncertainties – Kawashima Shin

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INSIGHTS – Assessing the Reliability of Abe and Trump’s Relationship in Light of Past Efforts and Future Uncertainties – Kawashima Shin 

It is said that the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is the political representative with whom U.S. President Donald Trump talks the most. Some hold the view that this good relationship between Japan and the United States. However, is the personal relationship between Prime Minister Abe and President Trump as solid as it seems ? And if it were to be true, how did this friendly relationship come into being ? What can be possibly learned about the relationship between Japan and the U.S. by looking at this bond between the two leaders ?

  • From the Obama administration to the Trump administration 
  • The formation of the Abe-Trump relationship 
  • The North Korean issue 
  • Issues and discrepancies between the two leaders 

 

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