Search results for: Pao-Wen Li
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Connecting Taiwan and Finland: An Interview with Prof. Julie Yu-Wen Chen
...Julie Yu-wen Chen is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Since 2023, she has been involved in the EU twinning project “The EU in...
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Slowly Taking Off: Nordic-Taiwan Relations
...during most of this time Taiwan has attracted very little attention and interest from the Nordic countries. This is now changing. We can see this in various fields, not only...
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IN DEFENSE OF THE LIBERAL INTERNATIONAL ORDER
...In recent years, the geopolitical fight for global economic, diplomatic, and institutional control has acutely intensified, accentuating the crisis in the existing post-World War II Liberal International Order (LIO),...
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Positive Paranoia: Chinese Interpretations of Indo-Pacific Geopolitics
This Focus Asia paper seeks to interpret Chinese narratives on Indo-Pacific geopolitics by reviewing Chinese state media and scholarly opinions on Indo-Pacific geopolitics. For this purpose, the paper...
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Can India Leverage Taiwan’s Lai Moment?
...nuances in speech. In particular, Taiwan’s ties with democratic Indo-Pacific states like India will continue to be on Beijing’s radar, with implications for both Taiwan domestically and cross-strait politics. Any...
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Taiwan’s Southbound Drive towards Southeast Asia
This article examines Taiwan’s foreign policy towards Southeast Asia during Ma Ying-jeou’s two-term (2008–2016) and Tsai Ing-wen’s first-term (2016–2020) presidencies. It discusses the context of East Asian...
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Politics in East Asia Today: Between Democracy, Debates, and Discourse
...power, and the two papers by Fengming Lu and Wen-Hsuan Tsai & Chien-wen Kou both investigate how officials are recruited in China today. Section 2, Democracy and Democratization, includes five...
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Taiwan-Japan (Unofficial) Relations: In a Sea of Troubles
...Tsai Ing-wen went on a four-day trip to Japan, dubbed the “Taiwan-Japan friendship” tour during which she allegedly met Shinzo Abe. Her election in January 2016 created a solid foundation...
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Did Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip Close the Thucydides Trap?
...of token symbolism or was the Nancy Pelosi-Tsai Ing-wen image an evocative democratic totem? And what consequences will Pelosi’s visit engender in the long term for Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific...
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Taiwan: Tokyo’s New Ally?
...In December 2022, the back-to-back visits by senior Japanese lawmakers, Koichi Hagiuda, Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Policy Research Council chairman, and Hiroshige Seko, the upper house secretary...