Professor and Chairman of the Department of Political Science and International Affairs Elizabeth Freund Larus

Elizabeth Larus, Chairman of the UMW Department of Political Science and International Affairs, commented on the importance of Taiwan in U.S. foreign policy in the October 5 column “U.S. Presidential Elections 2020: The Taiwan Factor” in The Diplomat.
Dr. Larus commented that the next administration’s personnel picks would largely determine U.S.-Taiwan relations after the 2020 Presidential Election.

Read her comments at
https://thediplomat.com/2020/10/us-presidential-elections-2020-the-taiwan-factor/

Professor and Chairman of the Department of Political Science and International Affairs Elizabeth Freund Larus

Elizabeth Freund Larus, Chairman of the Department of Political Science and International Affairs, commented on CBN News on U.S. bans of popular Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat. In her September 18 interview, Professor Larus warned that TikTok, a Chinese video-sharing social networking service, feeds the facial recognition and user data that it collects to China. WeChat is a Chinese messaging app. Its messages are not encrypted, which allows the Chinese government to read messages.

View the interview at
https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2020/september/us-banning-wechat-tiktok-citing-national-security

Professor and Chairman of the Department of Political Science and International Affairs Elizabeth Freund Larus

Elizabeth Freund Larus, Chairman of the Department of Political Science and International Affairs, commented in the South China Morning Post (HK) on September 16 that regardless of a Trump or Biden victory in November, the U.S. will continue and possibly deepen scrutiny of Chinese acquisitions of technology. She also indicated that a second Trump administration is likely to further limit sales of advanced technology to China on national security grounds, and that there may be greater scrutiny of Chinese graduate students engaged in technology research in the U.S. Her comments also ran in the The Korea Times.

Read the article at
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3101636/us-china-tech-cold-war-has-turned-hot-would-biden-presidency-change

Professor and Chairman of the Department of Political Science and International Affairs Elizabeth Freund Larus

Elizabeth Freund Larus, Chairman of the Department of Political Science and International Affairs, commented on Indus News on U.S. sanctions against Chinese construction companies. In her August 31 interview, Professor Larus argued that the U.S. sanctions are not intended to contain China’s rise, but are in response to their participation in China’s island building on disputed territories in the South China Sea. The U.S. sanctions threaten the future of Chinese development projects, such as construction of Sri Lanka’s Port City Columbo project. Professor Larus’ comments begin at 19:30 minutes into the program at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ1mCRNkptw