China A clash or reconciliation of nationalisms across the Taiwan Strait? February 4, 2020 0 Image credit: 龜山島＋國旗 by Vincent Chien/Flickr; licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Zhidong Hao. Between 2002 and 2003, I was a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan…
Asia The China Factor in Taiwan’s 2020 Election and Beyond January 9, 2020 0 Image credit: 104年11月7日 馬英九總統出席兩岸領導人會面 by 總統府/Flickr, license CC BY 2.0 Written by T.Y. Wang. Taiwan’s citizens will go to the polls on 11 January 2020 to elect their next…
APEC Taiwan’s Think Tanks and the Practice of Unofficial Diplomacy August 20, 2019 0 Written by Pascal Abb. Image credit: 2017臺灣國際科學展覽會頒獎典禮 by Office of the President, Republic of China (Taiwan)/Flickr, license: CC BY 2.0 Taiwan is a unique case…
Activism Taiwan’s confused reaction to the Tiananmen Incident in 1989 and why Lee Teng-hui was right June 4, 2019 0 Written by Ho Ming-sho. Image Credit: Tiananmen Square #6 by Mike/Flickr, Licence CC BY-SA 2.0. This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a…
China Declining Taiwanese identity? February 8, 2019 3 Written by T.Y. Wang. The results of Taiwan’s 2018 local elections shocked the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and came as a surprise to some.…
China Exploring the complex China-Taiwan relationship January 25, 2019 0 Written by Daouda Cissé. In November 2015, the meeting between Ma Ying-Jeou - then president of Taiwan and leader of the Kuomintang (KMT) - and…
China Xi Jinping’s Message to Compatriots in Taiwan Signals Change in Taiwan Policy January 24, 2019 0 Written by Elizabeth Freund Larus. Xi Jinping’s January 2ndMessage to Compatriots in Taiwan, in which China’s leader called for unification under a “one country, two…
China Countering Chinese Military Modernization: A Path Forward for Taiwan and the United States January 24, 2019 0 Written by Lotta Danielsson. China has long undertaken a massive and sustained effort to modernize its military, and the Chinese determination to change the political…
China The Cross-Strait #10YearChallenge January 23, 2019 0 Written by Margaret Lewis. What a difference a decade makes. Pandas are not the focus of the #10YearChallenge, in part perhaps because a 5-year-old panda…
China Motion Without Movement: The Latest (Non-) Developments in Cross-Strait Relations January 22, 2019 0 Written by June Teufel Dreyer. No Taiwan president has an easy job balancing pressure from China on unification with domestic pressures from those who advocate…
