August 2016

Ifay Chang​

Ifay Chang​

​AbstractThe 2016 Presidential Election is full of surprises of which the Trump phenomenon is most exciting not only in its evolving process but also in its possible outcome in the end. This essay is written shortly before Trump had secured his Republican Nomination but is updated after he had secured the nomination. The analysis regarding the GOP’s gear switching from No Trump to Accepting Trump is...

​AbstractThe 2016 Presidential Election is full of surprises of which the Trump phenomenon is most exciting not only in its evolving process but also in its possible outcome in the end. This essay is written shortly before Trump had secured his Republican Nomination but is updated after he had secured the nomination. The analysis regarding the GOP’s gear switching from No Trump to Accepting Trump is...

Lately there has been a lot of media coverage on the arbitration case initiated by the Philippines against China for disputes in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. In addition, the military maneuvers by the U.S. and China in that area have been intensified. Threats and counter threats were traded between these two great powers. The U.S. dispatched two aircraft carrier groups consisting of...

Lately there has been a lot of media coverage on the arbitration case initiated by the Philippines against China for disputes in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. In addition, the military maneuvers by the U.S. and China in that area have been intensified. Threats and counter threats were traded between these two great powers. The U.S. dispatched two aircraft carrier groups consisting of...

The Republican Convention was held at the Quicken Loans Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio from July 18 to 21 and the Democratic Convention will be held at the Wells Fargo Center, the Philadelphia Convention Center from July 25-28. This article was written after the GOP convention and before the Democrat convention simply because there were enough significant events taken place at the GOP convention fully...