From the US perspective, sending vaccines to Taiwan can serve as an effective object lesson for the rest of the world: stick with America and you get the world’s best science deployed to combat the pandemic. As such, Taiwan potentially stands to benefit from US vaccine diplomacy...
Last month, Taiwan's Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics announced that it expected the Taiwanese economy to grow by about 1.6% in 2020, as measured by GDP. This was a small downward revision of Taiwan's growth metric, from slightly over 1.6%, but this still reflects strong growth in the Taiwanese economy...
In 2020, Taiwan’s elections were subject to an extensive influence campaign by the intelligence and state security forces of China. However, in Taiwan’s case, both government and civil society actors were mostly able to resist these attempts at undue influence...
Over the past two weeks, Americans across the country have engaged in a protest movement against their police forces. Police have responded with militarized force against what are overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations...
It is widely expected that many Hongkongers will want to flee the city, given the possibility of being ‘disappeared’ into the prison system of a state that has imprisoned untold numbers of political prisoners, Uighurs, Tibetans, and others that don’t fit into Xi Jinping’s “China Dream.” Many have already fled. The Taiwanese government should take steps to aid them...
