The Diplomat Interview: Richard C. Bush on Northeast Asian Economies

Interview: Richard C. Bush on Northeast Asian Economies

Insights into the economies of Northeast Asia.

By Emanuel Pastreich for The Diplomat

October 22, 2015

http://thediplomat.com/2015/10/interview-richard-c-bush-on-northeast-asian-economies/

Richard Bush is director of the Center for East Asia Policy Studies (CEAP) at Brookings Institution and is a senior fellow at the John L. Thornton China Center. For five years before that he was the chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan, the mechanism through which the United States government conducts substantive relations with Taiwan in the absence of diplomatic relations.

He is the author of At Cross Purposes: U.S.-Taiwan Relations Since 1942, a book of essays on the history of America’s relations with Taiwan, Untying the Knot: Making Peace in the Taiwan Strait, a book on cross-Strait political relations, A War Like No Other: The Truth About China’s Challenge to America (co-authored Michael O’Hanlon), which examines the challenges that the United States faces in avoiding conflict and developing its relationship with China, Perils of Proximity: China-Japan Security Relations and Uncharted Strait: The Future of China-Taiwan Relations.http://thediplomat.com/2015/10/interview-richard-c-bush-on-northeast-asian-economies/