Regional Tensions

Qiao Collective Uses The History of Premodern Empires to Justify Contemporary Ones

Brian Hioe
Perhaps the most noteworthy thing about the Qiao Collective’s “Taiwan: An Anti-Imperialist Perspective”, published in the Monthly Review, is to what extent it focuses on premodern history–and to what extent the Taiwanese people are absent from a history purportedly about them. This should not surprise for Qiao, but one still finds one’s self somewhat surprised that the Monthly Review allowed for the publication of a perspective on history that is clearly more cultural nationalist than Marxist...
August 2024EnglishInternationalRegional Tensions11 min read

What Does Jensen Huang’s Sudden Popularity in Taiwan Reflect?

Brian Hioe
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is having a moment in Taiwan. In particular, Huang has been widely praised in Taiwan after a speech in which he declared that the world was on the precipice of a new Industrial Revolution–involving AI–and that Taiwan was key to this. This occurred on the occasion of a keynote speech by Huang at Computex, one of the major annual tech exhibitions in Taiwan...
EnglishInternationalJune 2024PoliticsRegional Tensions5 min read