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Highlights & Quotes John Tkacik is a Heritage Foundation China scholar and a signatory to the Project for the New American Century's 2002 letter to President Bush on Hong Kong, which warned of increasing "central Chinese government control over key levers of power" in Hong Kong.

In response to a May 2003 Council on Foreign Relations report which argued that China didn't pose much of a military threat to U.S. interests, Tkacik said: "It's sort of a feel-good report. It doesn't jibe with a Pentagon report last year. And it's a mistake to underestimate the Chinese ability to amass a high quality military force closeto their shores." (Washington Post, May 23, 2003)

In December 2003, after President Bush warned Taiwan not to rock the boat in its relations with China by holding a controversial referendum on independence, Tkacik joined a chorus of neocon and rightwing hawks-including PNAC directors William Kristol, Robert Kagan, and Gary Schmitt-in lambasting the president's position. Tkacik told the Post that the president had "lost his bearings" on Taiwan. "It just boggles the mind. I'm just appalled. Clinton never would have gone this far." (Washington Post, December 9, 2003)

According to his Heritage bio: "A 23-year veteran of the U.S. State Department, John Tkacik joined the Asian Studies Center of The Heritage Foundation in 2001. As a research fellow in the foundation's Asian Studies Center, Tkacik (pronounced TASS-ick) analyzes policies and events concerning China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao. Tkacik's long career in the Department of State began in 1971. After stints in Taiwan and Hong Kong, he came stateside in 1986 to direct junior officer training at the department's Foreign Service Institute in Washington, DC, where he also taught diplomatic history, trade, and analysis. He returned to the Orient in 1989 as Deputy U.S. Consul General in Guangzhou, China. While stationed there, he oversaw all U.S. governmental reporting on economic, commercial and political developments throughout the four provinces of South China. In 1992 he went back to Washington to serve as the State Department's Chief of China Analysis. In this post he supervised the analysis, preparation, and distribution of intelligence reports addressing economic, commercial, military, political, and strategic developments within China. Tkacik left the Department in 1994 to become president of China Business Intelligence, an Alexandria, Virginia, research firm providing intelligence support to U.S. companies doing business with China and Taiwan. Additionally, he served as publisher of Taiwan Weekly Business Bulletin, a newsletter produced for China Online and the U.S.-ROC (Taiwan) Business Council."

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