US-Taiwan relationship

Discursive Effects of the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan on Taiwan Cannot Be Ignored

Over the past few days, much of the world has been fixed on the spectacle of the resurgent Taliban taking provincial capitals across Afghanistan, eventually sweeping the capital of Kabul. It may not be surprising that there has been a wave of discussion of how Taiwan relates to this series of events, if at all. Many of these responses have been sharply divided...

The Society for Sinophone Studies Stands with Palestine

On June 15th, 2021, the Society for Sinophone Studies issued its Statement in Solidarity with Palestine. The academic organization joins the unprecedented wave of transnational scholars who recognize and oppose the targeted and systematic dispossession, confinement, and forcible separation of Palestinians by the State of Israel, which Human Rights Watch has condemned as guilty of the crimes against humanity that constitute apartheid...

American Support for Taiwan Draws Parallel to Backing of Israel

For organizers in Taiwan, the DPP’s commitment to justice must be questioned alongside any vision of transitional justice that fails to engage with the role of the US in propping up the authoritarian Chiang Kai-shek regime. Likewise, contrary to popular belief, American political support for Taiwan, similar to American support for Israel, is a deeply bipartisan position...