Search results for: Wen-Hsuan Tsai
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Can India Leverage Taiwan’s Lai Moment?
...sending representatives to virtually attend President Tsai Ing-wen’s oath-taking ceremony in 2020 to the Indian envoy’s clear acknowledgment of the “smooth and peaceful transfer of power” in 2024, we can...
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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 regionalization...
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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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South Korea’s Indo-Pacific Strategy: A Ray of Hope or Losing Steam?
In late July, South Korea signed a memorandum on the Trilateral Security Cooperation Framework (TSCF) with the United States and Japan, a first-of-its-kind agreement that seeks to institutionalize...
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Japan: No Indo-Pacific Order Without International Order
In April, Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio, in his address to the joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, made the case for a stronger “global partnership” with the...
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Convergence in Vietnam, EU Interests a Harbinger of Indo-Pacific Order?
In March and April, Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son’s nearly back-to-back visits to the U.S. and China highlighted Vietnam’s increasing penchant for delicate diplomacy with major powers...
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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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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...
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Taiwan-Marshall Islands Relations: Against the Tide
...When in 2016 Tsai Ing-wen was elected ROC president, her political stance might have unsettled the Majuro-Taipei connection. Tsai’s electoral victory marked the end of an unofficial diplomatic truce with...
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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...