My latest: #China has initiated a series of influence campaigns against #Taiwan ahead of the island’s inauguration of president-elect Lai Ching-te on May 20.
Feat: Fang-Yu Chen J Michael Cole (寇謐將) voanews.com/a/china-ramps-…

Our work on FPA argues that for the US, a dual clarity strategy is better than the current strategic ambiguity.

The ‘Memory War’ Over Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement by Yang Kuang-shun 楊光舜
(If there were no such movement to stop the service trade deal with China, the geopolitical balance today will be fundamentally different because Taiwan will be closely tied with China.)
thediplomat.com/2024/05/the-me…

New article out! With Fang-Yu Chen , Charles K.S. Wu Yao-Yuan Yeh ! Using an incomplete info model and a survey #experiment , we show that #Taiwanese people accept the 'Dual Clarity' policy similar to strategic ambiguity.
UNLV PoliSci @UNLV UNLV Liberal Arts
academic.oup.com/fpa/article-ab…

Must read!

Must read!

Here's a list of 賴清德Lai Ching-te's incoming natsec team, confirmed by The Wall Street Journal:
國防部 Ministry of National Defense, R.O.C. 🇹🇼: Wellington Koo
外交部 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ROC (Taiwan) 🇹🇼: Lin Chia-lung
大陸委員會 Mainland Affairs Council, ROC (Taiwan): Chiu Chui-cheng
National Security Council: Joseph Wu

More: on.wsj.com/4cVfeA6 + quotes from Bonnie Glaser / 葛來儀 🇺🇦 Lev Nachman Fang-Yu Chen

My latest: Chinese leader Xi Jinping met former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou at the Great Hall of the People in #Beijing on Wednesday, during which he said both sides of the #Taiwan Strait are destined to be unified. voanews.com/a/china-s-xi-f…

Moving the Ma-Xi meeting up to coincide with the US-Japan-Philippines meeting

1. Shows the PRC giving far too much credit to the symbolic importance of Ma

2. Shows that the meeting is in fact less about ROC-PRC friendship, and more about geopolitical signaling (shocking I know)

China is trouble maker everywhere

It says something now historically marginalized Taiwan has felt—and that this has changed drastically in recent memory—that there has been an almost celebratory reaction to the international coverage of Taiwan after the earthquake yesterday, as the largest earthquake in 25 years

Great collection of Taiwan-related books and podcasts!!!!

Excited to see word of this forthcoming book by Catie Lilly & Mark Harrison that James Lin jamestwotree.bsky.social is enthusiastic about, have heard about it being in the works for some time, not sure when it is out or if anything is online yet; this screenshot is from a Cambria Press email blast...

We wanted to plan something that put both Sunflower & Umbrella’s 10 year anniversaries in conversation with each other, with leaders and scholars that have spent the last decade thinking about what these movements mean.

Please mark your calendars for this very special event.

'Almost daily, China finds a new way to bully Taiwan.'
We should also note that 'reunification' is actually 'annexation.'

For The New Yorker, I wrote about life in a luxury Taiwanese postpartum hotel.
newyorker.com/culture/the-we…

Yesterday, Taiwan celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Sunflower Movement, which saw over 10,000 people take to the streets and over 400 occupy Taiwan's parliament in protest of a trade agreement that would bring Taiwan politically closer to China. 🌻taiwanplus.com/news/taiwan-ne…

'The Sunflower Movement, Ten Years On' by Brian Hioe 丘琦欣

Link: newbloommag.net/2024/03/18/sun…

My cartoon on TikTok Ban in USA
Published with today‘s The Age & The Sydney Morning Herald

Excited to share my article on rural reform and authoritarian rule in Taiwan Comparative Political Studies! Using archival data from 2 crucial campaigns in the early days of KMT rule, I show how the regime tried to coopt rural society with mixed results. A summary: 1/15
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…