After Thai Elections, It is Time for Taiwan to Change Its Diplomatic Approach

Brian Hioe

No, Destroying TSMC Will Not Prevent China from Invading

Brian Hioe

Hou You-yi Emphasizes Opposition to Both “One Country, Two Systems”, Taiwanese Independence

Brian Hioe

Chinese Publisher Residing in Taiwan Detained in Shanghai

Brian Hioe

Never Mind China’s Drills, Quincy Institute Article Views America as Sole Agent of Rising Tensions

Brian Hioe

International

What Will Domestic and International Reactions to Chinese Drills After the Tsai-McCarthy Meeting Be?

Brian Hioe
China has once again begun carrying out military exercises in response to a meeting between a Taiwanese president and a US Speaker of the House. In this case, on Saturday, China announced three days of military exercises following the meeting that took place between US Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy and Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday in California...
April 2023EnglishFeaturedInternationalRegional Tensions9 min read

“Anti-War Working Group” Reproduces US-Centrism of Western Left, Fails to Consider Multipolar World

Brian Hioe
A recent press conference held by a number of senior left-wing scholars, calling for an “anti-war” stance for Taiwan, proved an exercise in not only naivete about China but profound US-centrism–that is, a preoccupation with the US and western powers and failure to see the world outside of a Euro-American framework...
EnglishInternationalMarch 2023Regional Tensions10 min read

Proposal of Chinese “Kill List” of Taiwanese Independence Advocates Meant to Intimidate

Brian Hioe
Chinese nationalist essayist and blogger Zhou Xiaoping recently proposed a resolution at a session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference for China to draw up a list of “Taiwanese separatists” to be killed during a “Special Military Operation” to take Taiwan. Zhou later claimed that the resolution had been adopted, though this could have been a way for Zhou to claim his own political relevance...
Cross StraitEnglishInternationalMarch 20238 min read

Kinmen Soldier’s Disappearance and Reappearance in China Leads to Questions

Brian Hioe
Reports indicate that a Taiwanese soldier stationed in Kinmen who disappeared from his post is in China. On Saturday, Next Apple reported that the soldier had been found in China and had been rescued by the Chinese Coast Guard after swimming there, while the Ministry of National Defense’s official stance was that the soldier’s location was unclear...
Cross StraitEnglishInternationalMarch 20236 min read

US Conservatives Increasingly Frame Ukraine and Taiwan in Zero-Sum Terms

Brian Hioe
Comments by US Senator Josh Hawley made at the Heritage Foundation last month linked Taiwan’s fate to that of Ukraine, though in the context of calling for the US to decrease support for Ukraine and increase support for Taiwan. Hawley’s comments prove revealing about current views among American Republicans, particularly those of the MAGA camp, about the geopolitical role played by the US with regard to Taiwan and Ukraine...
America and the Asia PacificEnglishFebruary 2023InternationalPolitics6 min read