The Taiwan Policy Working Group first convened in January 2007 to discuss the status of U.S.-Taiwan political, military, and economic relations. As the United States and Taiwan struggled through one of the relationship’s most difficult years, the working group investigated areas in which a more positive and productive agenda might...

A month ago, the George W. Bush administration made a tentative deal with Congressional Democrats on a new template which could allow passage of pending trade accords and potentially clear the way for new ones. According to the proposal, countries seeking free-trade agreements with the United States would have to...