• Her recent co-edited book, Resistance in the Era of Nationalisms: Performing Identities in Taiwan and Hong Kong (Michigan State University Press, 2023) addresses various forms of resistance and explores how people in Taiwan and Hong Kong respond to the big-power politics between China and the United States. (lu.se)
  • Professor Liu is the author of "Hong Kong and Taiwan Gender Equality and Legislation and Case Studies", "20 Years On: How Far Have We Progressed? (lu.se)
  • All countries in the region can be used as examples, but there is a particular focus on the following groups of countries divided according to the degree of industrialisation: 1) Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore, 2) Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, and 3) China and Vietnam. (lu.se)
  • Focuses on topics relating to China, Hong Kong & Taiwan since 1949, plus studies of the major issues that contribute to understanding of Communist Party history & contemporary events. (lu.se)
  • BEIJING -- The chairmen of two political parties in Taiwan held banquets here on Wednesday to honor members of a mainland delegation which arrived on Monday for cross-Strait talks. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Tsai said in a National Day address that the international community views stability in the Taiwan Strait as an "indispensable component of global security and prosperity. (fox2now.com)
  • China claims Taiwan as its own territory and has been increasingly sending ships and warplanes across the Taiwan Strait in an effort to intimidate the population of 23 million, who strongly favor the status-quo of de-facto independence. (fox2now.com)
  • Let me reiterate that peace is the only option across the Taiwan Strait," said Tsai, who will step down after two terms in office. (fox2now.com)
  • The backdrops of this modest prospect are the leadership transitions underway on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. (ciaonet.org)
  • The most important thing for us now is that there should be no war in the region, including the Taiwan Strait," the vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Taro Aso, said Tuesday in Taipei at the Ketagalan Forum hosted by Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (krqe.com)
  • Aso, a former prime minister of Japan, said peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait was the consensus of the international community. (krqe.com)
  • Japan has become more explicitly vocal about Taiwan, its former colony, as tensions in the Taiwan Strait have risen. (krqe.com)
  • The two also affirmed the importance of peace in the Taiwan Strait. (krqe.com)
  • In recent months Beijing increased naval exercises over the strategically important Taiwan Strait. (project-syndicate.org)
  • However, much of the debate over a Taiwan Strait conflict focuses on preparation for and conduct of the PRC's attack: whether Beijing will or won't attack, what an attack might look like and Taiwan's ability to defend itself, whether the US will or should get involved and whether it ought to sell Taiwan 'this or that' weapon. (jpolrisk.com)
  • That is why we are against unilateral changes in the Taiwan Strait. (reinhardbuetikofer.eu)
  • Taiwan and China are more economically interconnected than ever before, and in the short term, cross-Strait economic relations are unlikely to change significantly. (cesionline.org)
  • They will squeeze wages and working conditions on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. (socialistworld.net)
  • China is even increasing its military agenda in the Taiwan Strait and flying its warplanes over Taiwan territory. (moderndiplomacy.eu)
  • Washington should focus more on bolstering peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and less on a potential war between the self-ruled island and mainland China, according to analysts speaking at an online forum on Monday. (bihardainik.com)
  • Blanchette pointed out that some of the worst military crises in the Taiwan Strait, such as the 1996 missile crisis after then president Lee Teng-hui's visit to the US and Pelosi's visit in August 2022, were triggered by political actions by US government officials resulting in angry responses by Beijing. (bihardainik.com)
  • Beijing has other urgent issues besides Taiwan, including a slowing domestic economy, and has many items in its toolkit on cross-strait relations apart from the military option, he said. (bihardainik.com)
  • Hence, Huang said, it would serve Beijing's interest to slow down the strategy competition with the US, and lower the temperature across the Taiwan Strait. (bihardainik.com)
  • International media, quite predictably, took it as a rising sign of cross-strait tensions seeing as the missile-which was fired from a naval vessel off of Kaohsiung-was aimed in the direction of China and hit a Taiwanese fishing boat off of Penghu, which is an archipelago of small islands that is administered as a county of Taiwan but located in the Taiwan Straits between Taiwan and China. (newbloommag.net)
  • Washington claims to support peace and stability with its constant warnings and preparations for what it calls a military contingency in the Taiwan strait. (rt.com)
  • The delegation, headed by the mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) president Chen Yunlin, finished a historic meeting with Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) on Tuesday, in which the two sides signed four agreements on food safety, direct shipping and flights, and mail services. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • The ceremonies with marching bands from Taiwan, Japan and the U.S. also underscored Taiwan's split personality as a self-governing democracy whose national symbols and state institutions were founded on mainland China after the Manchu Qing dynasty was overthrown in 1911. (fox2now.com)
  • Taiwan's government recently expelled a reporter from China's Southeast Television who was stationed in Taiwan. (chinascope.org)
  • There is no show of this kind on Taiwan's television stations, but there are a few political satire productions on their Facebook channels, such as OMGooseTW and Crazyck101 , which provide videos mixing animation with TV news clips to satirize politician's silly proposal and speech in a more amusing manner, though they are far less thought-provoking. (taiwannews.com.tw)
  • Speaking at Beijing's Great Hall of the People on the 40th anniversary of a key Taiwan policy statement on January 2, Xi Jinping said Taiwan's quest for "independence" would lead to "disaster. (project-syndicate.org)
  • Are Taiwan's political parties still relevant? (ecct.com.tw)
  • Since US Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan visit in August 2022, Beijing retaliated by ignoring the Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) of Taiwan, its aircraft flying sorties through Taiwan's airspace. (cdpi.asia)
  • Taiwan's decision to establish its own government has complicated its relations with China, which still considers Taiwan as part of the territory that must be reunified. (moderndiplomacy.eu)
  • Taiwan's close relationship with the United States has invited China's anger and stated ready for war with Taiwan in any time. (moderndiplomacy.eu)
  • Alexander Huang, a Washington-based representative of Taiwan's main opposition party, the Kuomintang - or KMT - also played down the likelihood of a near-term military attack on Taiwan by mainland forces. (bihardainik.com)
  • In 2002, the EP adopted a resolution that asked once again for deepening the relations with Taiwan, backed Taiwan's membership in the World Trade Organisation, pronounced itself in favour of a softer visa policy for Taiwanese officials, asked for strengthening Taiwan's role in the Asia-Europe Meeting, and demanded the withdrawal of Chinese missiles pointed at the island. (eu-logos.org)
  • With now former-President Donald Trump barely out the door of the White House, and political leaders around the world reevaluating their individual relationships with the incoming Biden Administration, Taiwan's leaders have been quick to offer their congratulations to new President Joe Biden and his Vice-President, Kamala Harris. (thetaiwantimes.com)
  • WHO barred Taiwan from participation in 2016 just a few months after Taiwan's free and fair elections. (who.int)
  • An under-explored field in studying Taiwan's politics and democracy is the use of cute elements in political campaigns. (lu.se)
  • Dr. Hsin-I Sydney Yueh will introduce a cultural concept to explain Taiwan's unique election culture, and compare two DPP's presidential campaigns in 2020 and 2024 to illustrate the use of cuteness and its implications in political communication. (lu.se)
  • Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech during National Day celebrations in front of the Presidential Building in Taipei, Taiwan, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. (fox2now.com)
  • Originally based in Mainland China, the ROC government retreated to Taiwan in 1949 after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) won the Chinese Civil War and established the People's Republic of China (PRC) in Mainland China. (wikipedia.org)
  • To complicate matters, the US in 1979 transferred recognition from Taiwan (PROC) to the People's Republic of China (PRC). (cdpi.asia)
  • Since the ROC is almost wholly composed of Taiwan island, the word "Taiwan" is commonly used synonymously with the Republic of China , while the word "China" is used to refer to areas under the control of the People's Republic of China . (fact-archive.com)
  • Although Taiwan enjoys de facto independence, the People's Republic of China considers Taiwan part of its sovereign territory and the Republic of China a defunct, and therefore illegitimate entity. (fact-archive.com)
  • Political issues in the People's Republic of China. (politicsforum.org)
  • This discussion will address the history and evolution of the conflict between the People's Republic of China and Taiwan. (gvsu.edu)
  • Within Taiwan, major political contention has been between parties favoring eventual Chinese unification and promoting a pan-Chinese identity, contrasted with those aspiring to formal international recognition and promoting a Taiwanese identity, though both sides have moderated their positions to broaden their appeal in the 21st century. (wikipedia.org)
  • Peace between Taiwan and China is the "only option," Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said Tuesday, while strongly asserting the self-governing island's defenses against Beijing's threats to invade. (fox2now.com)
  • During the regular press conference that the Mainland Affairs Council held, Chiu Chui-cheng, the spokesperson for Taiwan, said that on November 17, the Mainland Affairs Council in Taiwan had contacted the Ministry of Culture to remind Taiwanese media reporters and asked them to inform their affiliated media on the mainland not to set up studios in Taiwan to record such programs. (chinascope.org)
  • TAIPEI (Taiwan News) - A young popular Taiwanese standup comedian is setting up a crowdfunding campaign to produce a Taiwanese political satire show inspired by the late-night political comedy shows in the U.S., with an aim to raise political awareness among fellow young people. (taiwannews.com.tw)
  • A solid knowledge of the country's history, political system, and regulations enables this Université Paris VI graduate to lampoon Taiwanese politicians, and sometimes ridicule China's political repression and bullying. (taiwannews.com.tw)
  • But the Taiwanese are pro-independence and reject a reunification under a one-China principle that accepts Taiwan as part of China. (project-syndicate.org)
  • China's strategy will therefore gradually shift from targeting political and business heavyweights to Taiwanese youth, while incorporating more cultural leverage in the long term. (cesionline.org)
  • Until Taiwan was colonized by the Dutch in the seventeenth century , attempts by groups other than the Taiwanese aboriginal to settle Taiwan failed. (fact-archive.com)
  • This agreement has agreed to reduce tariff barriers on 539 Taiwanese products to China and 267 Chinese products to Taiwan with total benefits that both countries promise. (moderndiplomacy.eu)
  • After both countries agreed to establish the ECFA, discussions on the substance and framework of the agreement were held for the first time on January 26, 2010, in Beijing between the Taiwanese government represented by Kao Koong-lian, general secretary and vice chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and the Chinese government represented by Zheng Lizhong, Vice President of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS). (moderndiplomacy.eu)
  • We have a long history with the Taiwanese but again there are people like Alberto August that have been complaining a long time that the activities of the Taiwanese have passed the line of helping Belizeans and helping a political party. (lovefm.com)
  • If Taiwanese officials knew that the political gains would be unsignificant, they thought that their actions could improve the awareness about Taiwan and make a Chinese military offensive less acceptable. (eu-logos.org)
  • The health of 23 million Taiwanese people should never be sacrificed to send a political message. (who.int)
  • The two organizations resumed contact in Beijing in June 2008 after a nearly nine-year suspension and agreed to hold a meeting in Taiwan, the first contact for their current leaders in the island. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • While understanding the domestic factors constraining Ma's willingness to discuss political issues, Beijing has emphasized the importance of building political trust and strengthening a common Chinese heritage. (ciaonet.org)
  • China has also taken steps to stifle tourism from the mainland: whereas nearly 4.2 million mainland-Chinese tourists visited Taiwan in 2015, when the pro-Beijing Kuomintang government was in power, the total fell to just 2.73 million in 2017. (project-syndicate.org)
  • Against all international laws and UN charters, he is approaching Taiwan, as indicating to the world that regardless of the established world rules which make Beijing, the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), the official and legitimate Authority of China, with Taiwan being a part of China - the self-styled emperor, Mr. Trump, pretends he prefers dealing with Taiwan as an independent country. (countercurrents.org)
  • Under current US policy, the United States has no official diplomatic ties with Taiwan and recognizes a so-called one-China policy, with Beijing as its capital. (jpost.com)
  • Such would be the case if Beijing attempted to militarily subjugate Taiwan. (jpolrisk.com)
  • It was never a secret that Beijing was mobilizing a large concentration of its forces in the Fujian province fronting Taiwan. (cdpi.asia)
  • Placing some of the blame on Beijing, Blanchette added that the mainland Chinese government was "doing a very bad job" in convincing the people of Taiwan that unification might be in their interest, or that formal negotiations on an ultimate reconciliation might be constructive. (bihardainik.com)
  • To think that Beijing had a timetable to take back Taiwan was a "rampant misperception" held by many in Washington, while on the Beijing side, the misperception was that the US is basically pushing mainland China to go to war on Taiwan, said Liu Yawei, senior adviser on China at the Carter Centre in Emory University in the US. (bihardainik.com)
  • China's People's Liberation Army last month used civilian car ferries to practice launching an amphibious landing amid escalating tensions with Taiwan - showing once again that Beijing does not play by the rules of conventional Western thinking. (newsmax.com)
  • The United States has publicly warned China against using US lawmakers' visits to Taiwan "as a pretext for military action" and has demanded that other countries warn Beijing against conflict over the island. (rt.com)
  • The Chinese Nationalist Party under Chiang Kai-shek moved the government to Taiwan in 1949 following the takeover of mainland China by the Communist Party under Mao Zedong following a yearslong bloody civil war. (fox2now.com)
  • Taiwan and China split in 1949 after a civil war. (krqe.com)
  • Taiwan is democratically governed by the Republic of China , which also controlled mainland China from 1912 to 1949 . (fact-archive.com)
  • China, which rules Tibet, also claims sovereignty over Taiwan, which split from the mainland in 1949. (phayul.com)
  • China's tough stance toward Taiwan has so far proved counter-productive, bringing no concessions from the government in Taipei and exacerbating tensions with the US. (project-syndicate.org)
  • China's government suspended diplomatic contact with Taiwan in June 2016, because the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which had just returned to power, refused to recognize the so-called 1992 Consensus, the political basis for the One China principle. (project-syndicate.org)
  • THESE last few months, two American think tanks conducted war games on China's Taiwan invasion and published their findings. (cdpi.asia)
  • In most scenarios, Taiwan, the US and Japan defeated China's amphibious invasion. (cdpi.asia)
  • This conflict is thus confined to Taiwan - China's renegade province. (cdpi.asia)
  • The conflict between China and Taiwan that has been going on for a long time began when the civil war between the communist parties and nationalist parties divided China's territory and separated Taiwan from The Chinese mainland in 1945. (moderndiplomacy.eu)
  • Qingli, 2022) Taiwan, which rejects China's wishes, is trying to maintain its autonomy and independence by strengthening military cooperation with The United States. (moderndiplomacy.eu)
  • Not only that, China and Taiwan depend on each other in semiconductor products where China depends on semiconductor products from Taiwan and Taiwan depends on the broad reach of China's electronic market which uses semiconductors from Taiwan that has good quality and affordable prices. (moderndiplomacy.eu)
  • Zhang Zhijun of China's Taiwan Affairs Office. (newbloommag.net)
  • The missile did not actually cross the median line of the Taiwan Straits, but Zhang Zhijun of China's Taiwan Affairs Office has demanded an explanation for the missile firing, stating that there must be a reasonable explanation for the incident. (newbloommag.net)
  • President Lily Chang also announced the great news that FIABCI-Taiwan will host the 2022 FIABCI Global Leadership Summit in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. (fiabci.org)
  • Fighter-bomber sorties, escorted bomber "encirclement flights" and deployment of an aircraft carrier off Taiwan exacerbated tensions with Washington. (project-syndicate.org)
  • The trade relations between the two countries seem peaceful even though political and military tensions continue to escalate. (moderndiplomacy.eu)
  • As with NATO and Russia, the US actively seeks to foster military tensions by playing up the Taiwan issue and declaring China the aggressor. (rt.com)
  • He declared in a January 2019 speech that "we (China) do not promise to renounce the use of force and reserve the option to use all necessary measures (to take Taiwan. (jpolrisk.com)
  • Yet the Taiwan-US relationship became "unofficial and informal" with various consular agreements signed - elevating the relationship to "official and high-level," resulting eventually in the US removing its self-imposed restrictions on executive branch contact with Taiwan in 2021. (cdpi.asia)
  • This premise was a flagship project of FIABCI-Taiwan Immediate Past President Chang-Hsin Lin's Fabulous Group and is itself a winner of the 2021 FIABCI-Taiwan Real Estate Excellence Awards. (fiabci.org)
  • Métodos: Se realizó un estudio métrico, descriptivo y transversal en 121 artículos publicados en 12 revistas entre 2017 y 2021. (bvsalud.org)
  • After the Sunflower Movement, then, we have witnessed the rise of pan-Green third parties including the New Power Party (NPP), Taiwan Statebuilding Party (TSP), Social Democratic Party (SDP), and Free Taiwan Party (FTP), which ran in 2016 legislative elections. (ecct.com.tw)
  • DPP candidate Tsai Ing-wen won the ROC (Republic of China, hereafter referred to as Taiwan) presidential elections on January 16, 2016 by a decisive margin. (cesionline.org)
  • She is the author of Identity Politics and Popular Culture in Taiwan: A Sajiao Generation (Lexington Books, 2016), which won the 2018 Outstanding Book Award for the International and Intercultural Communication Division, National Communication Association, USA. (lu.se)
  • Washington recognizes Beijing's increased efforts to squeeze Taiwan and is undertaking efforts to push back. (taipeitimes.com)
  • Sea trials of Beijing's first aircraft carrier were symbolic of PLA capabilities that increasingly threaten Taiwan. (ciaonet.org)
  • Beijing's belligerence in the South China Sea and East China Sea has led South Korea, Japan, Taiwan (Republic of China) and the U.S. to modernize their forces and/or change their military force posture. (instapundit.com)
  • The author says Beijing's "tough stance toward Taiwan has so far proved counter-productive, bringing no concessions from the government in Taipei," despite multiple efforts to isolate Taiwan diplomatically in recent months. (project-syndicate.org)
  • Beijing's forces, therefore, had the advantages of proximity while Taiwan had the forces of its allies along the First Island Chain. (cdpi.asia)
  • The US sees Taiwan as being positioned among several key island chains and maritime routes, which, if allowed to return to Beijing's full control, will change the balance of power in the region permanently in its favor. (rt.com)
  • Chiang Kai-shek and his Kuomintang government fled to Taiwan, which was still under ROC control (as the Communists did not have a navy at that time). (wikipedia.org)
  • The United States recognized the Kuomintang government in Taiwan (ROC) as the legitimate representative of all China until 1979. (wikipedia.org)
  • Namely, the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) did quite well in the election, despite the fact that it has suffered in past election cycles, showing that it is not a spent political force in Taiwan. (ecct.com.tw)
  • The interviews indicate that China’s overall strategy will not change in response to the DPP victory itself, but instead will change as a function of fundamental shifts in demographics and political and cultural identity on the island. (cesionline.org)
  • In the same week Taiwan has been gearing up for today's 109th National Day celebrations, the nation's most recent diplomatic and political ally, Somaliland in north east Africa, has been going through some questionable political shifts observed from afar in Taipei. (thetaiwantimes.com)
  • Since Japan formally renounced all right, claim, and title to Formosa (Taiwan) and the Pescadores (Peng-hu) in the San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1951 and the Treaty of Taipei of 1952, the sovereignty of Taiwan is highly debated. (fact-archive.com)
  • The position of the Chen Shui-bian administration is that Taiwan is synonymous with the Republic of China, and therefore an independent and sovereign state whose legitimacy lies in popular sovereignty . (fact-archive.com)
  • This agreement is the most important bilateral trade pact between China and Taiwan because it is the first agreement made after nearly two decades of sovereignty disputes between the two countries hindering their trade relations. (moderndiplomacy.eu)
  • These countries use vague terms such as "respects", "acknowledge", "understand", or "take note of" in regards to the PRC's claim over Taiwan, rather than officially "recognizing" the claim. (wikipedia.org)
  • Through interviews with DPP leaders, scholars, journalists, and academics on potential election outcome implications for the PRC (People’s Republic of China, hereafter referred to as China), this post serves to assess the PRC's future strategy to exert influence over Taiwan. (cesionline.org)
  • Taipei City , Kaohsiung City , Taiwan Province (which is not to be confused with the PRC's view that all of Taiwan is a renegade province), and Fu-chien Province . (fact-archive.com)
  • To il ustrate these in- migrations I offer an account of a complex and contradictory agrarian landscape emerging in peri- urban areas of Eastern Taiwan. (lu.se)
  • The election of a DPP leader has played into the CCP's fears of a more pro-independence populous in Taiwan.  Chinese leaders have historically employed coercive tactics in order to set the stage for reunification. (cesionline.org)
  • Additionally, there are people in Taiwan who favor eventual Chinese reunification . (fact-archive.com)
  • Even though Taiwan has been recognized as a sovereign nation by the United Nations and some countries in the world since 1971, China has expressed its desire for reunification with Taiwan to this day. (moderndiplomacy.eu)
  • However, Huang added, while Xi was unlikely to seek an immediate war over Taiwan, he had taken a "strangulation strategy" and would need to show some advancement on the national reunification process as he had stated and prove he had achieved something in his third term, which ends in 2027. (bihardainik.com)
  • A netizen said, "The only three epidemic prevention principles that can save Taiwan: Tsai Ing-wen stepping down, Su Tseng-chang stepping down, and Chen Shih-chung stepping down. (globaltimes.cn)
  • A latest statistical investigation conducted by a big data analysis agency Keypo in the island showed that online negative views of Taiwan regional leader and senior politician Tsai Ing-wen and epidemic official Chen Shih-chung had increased. (globaltimes.cn)
  • China must, in his words, "reserve the option to take any necessary measure," though he claims that the threat is aimed at "external forces and at an extremely small number of 'Taiwan independence' separatists. (project-syndicate.org)
  • Combined with the personal differences between the two politicians, ultimately the NPP could not overcome its two political heavyweights to develop an internal party culture that was not reducible to them. (ecct.com.tw)
  • Chen Yunlin (R) and Chiang Ping-kun, the heads of two semi-official agencies from China and Taiwan after they signed ECFA in Chongqing on June 29, 2010. (moderndiplomacy.eu)
  • However, the threat of war between the two countries did not stop their trade activities between China and Taiwan. (moderndiplomacy.eu)
  • Seventy years ago, in the wake of two catastrophic world wars, Roosevelt, Churchill, and others set out to build structures and systems to maintain global political stability. (taipeitimes.com)
  • Yet the results of the next presidential election in 2020 showed that the dominance of two-party politics had not been broken, nor that individual political figures had become more important than political parties. (ecct.com.tw)
  • World Mental Health Day 2020 - But Will Taiwan Even Notice? (thetaiwantimes.com)
  • En 2020 se alcanzó el mayor número de publicaciones (n = 51) y de citas (88), probablemente como consecuencia de la COVID-19, que constituyó el principal foco temático emergente de investigación. (bvsalud.org)
  • In the Cairo Declaration of 1943, the Allied Powers declared the return of Taiwan (including the Pescadores) to the Republic of China as one of several Allied demands. (wikipedia.org)
  • This is the latest piece in an ongoing series on current events and political issues in Somaliland. (thetaiwantimes.com)
  • In a highly orchestrated event attended by the majority of Somaliland ministers and ruling party elites, the longest-serving Somaliland Vice President, His Excellency Abdirahman Abdallahi Ismail Saylici conceded his seat as the 4th Deputy Chairman of the ruling Kulmiye party to political newcomer and first-time Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism Hon. Mohamoud Hassan Saad (Saajin). (thetaiwantimes.com)
  • Although many have congratulated the Vice President for his brave decision to take the high road and concede to Minister Saajin, there are a lot of questions about his future viability as a political force despite being the longest-serving Vice President of Somaliland. (thetaiwantimes.com)
  • In 1945, at the end of World War II, the Republic of China (ROC) under Chiang Kai-shek, on behalf of the Allied Powers, accepted the surrender of Japanese troops in Taiwan, putting Taiwan under the control of a Chinese government again after 50 years of Japanese rule. (wikipedia.org)
  • Refusing to board a flight to China while in transit through Taiwan, Chinese dissident Chen Siming said Friday he is seeking political asylum because he would be imprisoned for his political activism should he venture back to China. (rfa.org)
  • I have come to Taiwan to escape political persecution by the Chinese Communist Party. (rfa.org)
  • Leaving Laos, Chen headed to Bangkok, but remained concerned that he would be arrested at any time by immigration police in Thailand, who have previously sent Chinese political refugees back home to face imprisonment. (rfa.org)
  • And in July 2018, authorities in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing jailed rights activist Dong Guangping and political cartoonist Jiang Yefei after they were sent home from Thailand as they were awaiting resettlement as political refugees, prompting an international outcry. (rfa.org)
  • Because of Chinese political and economic pressure, Taiwan is using a lot of locally manufactured components to upgrade its F-16s. (instapundit.com)
  • In the beginning of the Chinese-language standup show, Tseng explained the rationale to do this show: to raise political awareness among fellow young people. (taiwannews.com.tw)
  • If it ever becomes a hot one, the flash point could be Taiwan, owing in large part to Chinese policy toward the island. (project-syndicate.org)
  • Despite Xi's assurance, "Chinese will not fight Chinese," and his willingness "to create a vast space for peaceful unification," he has not ruled out military means to prevent Taiwan from "seeking formal independence. (project-syndicate.org)
  • Namely, many young people involved in the Sunflower Movement had been protesting against policies of the KMT which was seen as drawing Taiwan too uncomfortably close to China, in developing economic links that could allow for more Chinese political influence over Taiwan. (ecct.com.tw)
  • Mark Stokes and Russell Hsiao, “The People’s Liberation Army General Political Department: Political Warfare with Chinese Characteristics.† Project 2049 Institute Occasional Paper, October 14, 2013, at https://cesionline.org/documents/PLA_General_Political_Department_Liaison_Stokes_Hsiao.pdf . (cesionline.org)
  • China lost heavily but its failure to occupy Taiwan could destabilize the Chinese Communist Party and bring about the downfall of Xi Jinping. (cdpi.asia)
  • Hsieh warned on Sunday in a rally that Taiwan under Chinese rule could end up like Tibet, in an electoral dig at Ma aimed at bolstering his own support for Saturday's election. (phayul.com)
  • German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock pledged support for Taiwan in the event of a Chinese attack. (politicallore.com)
  • Even if these resolutions had low political effect, some Chinese analysts were concerned by their influence on the European Commission that could badly impact the EU-China relationship. (eu-logos.org)
  • Research articles and notes, and book reviews of Chinese language works that cover the areas of economics, political science, international relations, social sciences and humanities. (lu.se)
  • Cute elements have been part of political campaigning since the 1998 Taipei mayoral election and have been employed in internal affairs and diplomacy. (lu.se)
  • DPP authorities have been using the epidemic as a political tool to boast its anti-epidemic performance, while suppressing the opposition and deteriorating cross-Straits ties so as to inch closer to the US, said Xin Qiang, deputy director of the Center for American Studies at Fudan University. (globaltimes.cn)
  • ECFA or known as the Cross-Straits Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement is a form of China-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement, which was signed on June 29, 2010, in Chongqing. (moderndiplomacy.eu)
  • But if the missile misfiring was likely an accident, this has also become another opportunity for China to suggest that Taiwan is the aggressor where cross-straits relations are concerned, not China. (newbloommag.net)
  • First, consider that policymakers in the Czech Republic are increasingly pushing back against the way China has been attempting to isolate Taiwan internationally. (jpolrisk.com)
  • Nor does "America first" mean Taiwan alone. (taipeitimes.com)
  • Although in 1955 the US Congress passed the "Formosa Resolution" giving President Eisenhower total authority to defend Taiwan and off-shore islands, it was never unequivocal whether America was going to defend Taiwan with "boots on the ground," considering that America had recognized the One China policy in 1972. (cdpi.asia)
  • Even as the battle for supremacy raged between the two political ideologies over the next two decades, the BJP was making inroads in the state. (daijiworld.com)
  • Another reason is the current political atmosphere in Sweden, with political parties and ideologies far to both left and right on the political scale growing in popularity, feminism included, and that in China, with rapidly growing income gaps and social unrest to match. (lu.se)
  • Founded in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, the Berkeley Political Review was established by students in 2001 to offer a source of impartial analysis on important issues. (berkeley.edu)
  • On November 11th, FIABCI-Taiwan successfully held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) at FAB Golden Tulip Hotel in Tamsui, New Taipei City. (fiabci.org)
  • Then, from 1996, the European Commission started to implement economic round tables that gathered manufacturers and officials of the EU and Taiwan. (eu-logos.org)
  • Taiwan (excluding Penghu) was first populated by Austronesian people and was partially colonized by the Dutch, who had arrived in 1623. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the aftermath of the First Sino-Japanese War, Taiwan and Penghu were ceded by the Qing Dynasty to Japan in 1895 under the Treaty of Shimonoseki. (wikipedia.org)
  • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - A senior Japanese politician advocated Tuesday for increasing his country's deterrence ability to ensure peace in the region, and called for that message to be clearly conveyed globally - particularly in China. (krqe.com)
  • The source also said that Taiwan has reached an agreement with a Middle Eastern country to provide counterterrorism training to that nation's officers and soldiers in Taiwan, without disclosing the country's name. (report.tw)
  • Taiwan is the world's 16th largest trading economy and a key player in the semiconductor industry. (straitstimes.com)
  • Taiwan saw its economy devastated. (cdpi.asia)
  • In this article, I review the history of landscape production in Florida, USA, to reveal the interrelated consequences of adjustments in political economy, administration, land use, and spatial representations for future landscape development. (lu.se)
  • China has used its economic clout to pressure countries and international institutions into breaking ties with Taiwan, and has curbed their bilateral trade, cultural exchanges and tourism. (project-syndicate.org)
  • summit with US President Joe Biden in San Francisco last week, Xi also highlighted that Taiwan was the "most dangerous" issue in the bilateral relationship. (bihardainik.com)
  • A year ago, China fired five ballistic missiles into waters near Japanese southern islands as part of military exercises it held in retaliation for former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. (krqe.com)
  • According to the US, China is an aggressor seeking to unilaterally change the status quo over Taiwan. (rt.com)
  • Since its establishment, the PRC has claimed Taiwan as a province and has refused to establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan. (wikipedia.org)
  • Internationally, the United Nations and all countries that have diplomatic relations with the PRC handle relations with Taiwan according to their own respective "One China" policies. (wikipedia.org)
  • US lawmakers introduced legislation Friday that urges the United States to resume normal diplomatic relations with Taiwan. (jpost.com)
  • After the results of nine-in-one municipal elections last November, some have questioned whether this reflects the declining importance of political candidates compared to parties. (ecct.com.tw)
  • As one of China’s primary “core interests,†the elections are likely to generate outbursts of more aggressive political warfare tactics if China perceives Taiwan as veering away from its desired course. (cesionline.org)
  • Political warfare seeks to influence emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals in a manner favorable to one’s own political-military objectives. (cesionline.org)
  • Trump wants to make Taiwan an 'ally' - dreaming of setting up a US base on the island, thus further encircling China. (countercurrents.org)
  • Raised in the U.S. for several years, and educated in Taiwan, UK, and France, Brian Tseng (曾博恩) discovered his passion for standup comedy during senior high and participated in stand-up open-mic events when he was studying in the National Taiwan University. (taiwannews.com.tw)
  • National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7, program compensated hospitals for ence is that government planning and Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei, Taiwan the decrease in revenues, based on the intervention are required. (cdc.gov)
  • National Taiwan University Hospital, able for consumption. (cdc.gov)
  • I am studying development studies in Lund and here in Taipei primarily political science at National Taiwan University (NTU) since February. (lu.se)
  • A relaxed quarantine policy, low vaccination rate and political manipulation over the anti-epidemic work have contributed to the surge of Omicron cases in Taiwan as the island saw more than 60,000 daily COVID-19 cases for the fourth straight day in the latest wave. (globaltimes.cn)
  • The Battle for Taiwan would have truly global consequences, akin to the invasion of Poland by the Soviets and Germans in 1939. (jpolrisk.com)
  • So he bought a flight back to China, routed through the democratic island of Taiwan, like other activists before him. (rfa.org)
  • It shows the need for the US and Western Europe to reimagine relations with Taiwan, bring Taiwan in from the cold of political isolation, start working towards a normalization of relations, and find a rightful place for that democratic country in the international family of nations. (jpolrisk.com)
  • President Tsai’s election is Taiwan’s third peaceful transition of power and it further solidifies Taiwan’s democratic political system. (cesionline.org)
  • President Lily Chang pointed out during her opening remarks that despite the challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, FIABCI-Taiwan managed to hold an award ceremony at Grand Hyatt Taipei on September 23rd, and celebrated the outstanding achievements of more than 200 property developments and public infrastructure projects. (fiabci.org)
  • The coronavirus was already a global news item before I travelled to Taiwan, however, at that time it had primarily only affected China. (lu.se)
  • Taiwan into the UN rally held in front of the PRC Mission to the UN in New York City, September 22, 2018. (jpolrisk.com)
  • Tseng also touched key social issues including low birth rate, which Taiwan was ranked the third lowest in the world, which lead to an expansion of the child-rearing subsidy starting this August. (taiwannews.com.tw)
  • Hauer Xie (謝政豪), co-founder of Taiwanbar Studio , a website featuring humorous animation on a wide range of social issues, told Upmedia that it is about time to produce the thought-provoking political satire talk show as Taiwan is the only one Mandarin-speaking country that has achieved a complete freedom of speech, and the society is well prepared for such a show. (taiwannews.com.tw)
  • Visits by high-ranking officers to Taiwan and the Middle Eastern country would likely be normalized in the future, the source added. (report.tw)
  • This work group had to set up the strategy, reinforce the links between the EU and Taiwan, hire experts on European affairs and organise visits in Taiwan with influent EU officials. (eu-logos.org)
  • They come amid speculation that more American congressional representatives will soon visit Taiwan. (rt.com)
  • The political status of Taiwan or the Taiwan issue is a long-running dispute on the status of Taiwan, currently controlled by the Republic of China (ROC). (wikipedia.org)
  • Former president and party leader Ma Ying-jeou and other Nationalist politicians boycotted this year's ceremonies because the government used the term "Taiwan" rather than the official name of the Republic of China in English references to the occasion. (fox2now.com)
  • A few months ago Ambassador of the Republic of China (Taiwan) was openly accused of playing politics when it comes to donations and grants. (lovefm.com)
  • During the Cold War, the EU was not supporting the ROC (Republic of China, the formal name of Taiwan). (eu-logos.org)
  • The Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama visited Taiwan in 1997, since then relations between Taipei and the Tibetan government-in-exile have become closer. (phayul.com)
  • This condition has been created since trade relations between Taiwan and China were regulated under the ECFA (Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement) which guarantees the security of trade relations between the two countries in all conditions. (moderndiplomacy.eu)
  • In addition, a vocal independence movement exists on Taiwan either rejecting the legality of ROC or calling for the creation of a Republic of Taiwan in place of the ROC. (fact-archive.com)
  • Evidence of PLA modernization confirms that military capabilities threatening Taiwan continue to increase, confronting Washington with difficult decisions on arms sales to Taiwan. (ciaonet.org)
  • The ferries could be used as cover for a surprise military operation against Taiwan. (newsmax.com)
  • The US scored a big win in recent weeks when it won consent from Manila to gain access to four additional military bases , which as it happens are near Taiwan. (rt.com)
  • According to a high-ranking military official, Taiwan is stepping up military cooperation with long-standing partners and forging new ties as it bolsters training exercises with the US Army Special Forces and trains officers and soldiers from an undisclosed Middle Eastern country. (report.tw)
  • Important provisos about the cov- simultaneously responding to, and omies, the availability of comparable erage and quality of available data feeding, the emergence of a public long-term data reveals a general become increasingly pertinent the and political consciousness of the increase in income inequality in the broader the range of countries and issue. (who.int)
  • Japan, as a very close neighbor to Taiwan, I think we should be the first to express our attitude and also to make that message clear in the international community including China," he said. (krqe.com)