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Jason Hsu

Jason Hsu

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Jason Hsu, a former legislator from Taiwan, is a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.

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  1. Keeping Taiwan Online
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    Keeping Taiwan Online

    Sep 13, 2023 Jason Hsu & Richard Y.K. Chen urge the island’s authorities to develop indigenous capabilities in satellite communications and technologies.

  2. How America Should Support Taiwan
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    How America Should Support Taiwan

    Apr 12, 2023 Chang-Tai Hsieh & Jason Hsu explain how US efforts to on-shore semiconductor production are imperiling the island’s security.

  3. What the World’s Most Important Company Must Do
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    What the World’s Most Important Company Must Do

    Dec 15, 2022 Jason Hsu explains why TSMC must balance geographic diversification with the protection its chips provide for Taiwan.

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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami

    America's president subscribes to a brand of isolationism that has waxed and waned throughout US history, but has its roots in the two-century-old Monroe Doctrine. This is bad news for nearly everyone, because it implies acceptance of a world order based on spheres of influence, as envisioned by China and Russia.

    hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill

    Financial markets and official economic indicators over the past few weeks give policymakers around the world plenty to contemplate. Was the recent spike in bond yields a sufficient warning to Donald Trump and his team, or will they still follow through with inflationary stimulus, tariff, and immigration policies?

    wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.
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    Turning the Financial Tide for Small Island States

    Maya Delaney & Aminath Shauna tout the potential of green and blue bonds to protect critical ecosystems and build economic resilience.
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    School Meals Provide Food for Thought – and Fuel for Development

    Gordon Brown & Kevin Watkins tout universal nutrition programs in lower-income countries to mitigate a lost decade for poor children.
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    A House Gutted by Fire

    Terry Lynn Karl blames the inferno now consuming Los Angeles County squarely on greenhouse-gas emissions.
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    False Economies

    William H. Janeway highlights the high cost of the single-minded focus on efficiency that has come to dominate the discipline.

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