Building Bridges Through Sports: Opportunities for Sweden – Taiwan Collaboration: Digital Taiwan Lecture Series Report

The Stockholm Taiwan Center of the Institute for Security and Development Policy held a webinar for the Digital Taiwan Lecture Series on December 9, 2025, to discuss opportunities and challenges in strengthening bilateral ties between Sweden and Taiwan through sports.

The speakers have backgrounds in government and foreign affairs, as well as long-standing engagement in sports. The webinar was recorded and made available on YouTube. This report summarizes the main takeaways from the webinar, ranging from the understanding that sports transcend the physical dimension and can therefore unite territories through the shared democratic values embedded in sports activities, to the obstacles and challenges Sweden and Taiwan might face in building closer relations through sports.