Mercedes Kenitzer

Mercedes Kenitzer is a Program Instructor with Close Up and has been with the foundation since September 2024. She was born and raised in Florida but graduated high school in Georgia where she then studied Political Science and English-Literature Creative Writing at Agnes Scott College. Mercedes is a Close Up alum who enjoys studying public policy, international relations, and environmental policy.

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Foreign Policy

Tensions Increase Between China and Taiwan

June 03, 2025

In May 2024, Lai Ching-te was sworn in as the new president of Taiwan. Central to his campaign was rejecting any political claims to the island by mainland China (officially the People’s Republic of China or PRC) and establishing a fully independent Taiwan.1 This position is in clear opposition to the PRC’s “One China” principle, […]

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