A dark echo of transnational repression: Taiwan 40 years ago

Phelim Kine’s China Watcher in Politico this issue features “When Taiwan Assassinated an American Citizen,” drawing attention to the 40th…

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Who should decide the future of Taiwan?

The other day on Twitter I quoted Tsai Ing-wen and posed a question: “We believe that the Taiwanese people should…

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Book review: “The Trouble with Taiwan: History, the United States and a Rising China.” By Kerry Brown and Kalley Wu Tzu Hui. London: Zed Books, 2019.

Here’s a book review that I wrote almost a year ago, and it’s just now published (link here). Reading it…

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A critique of Taiwan’s “humanitarian assistance action plan for Hong Kong citizens”

Yesterday the Taiwan government finally released the much-anticipated “humanitarian assistance action plan for Hong Kong citizens.” Here are the details…

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Taiwan’s meaningful participation in the World Health Organization would implement, not violate, UN principles

WHO and governments around the world would benefit from this principled reform. By Jerome A. Cohen and Yu-Jie Chen When SARS traumatized Asia…

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Taiwan and the World Health Assembly: the politics of invitation

WHO Director-General Tedros’ decision not to invite Taiwan to this year’s WHA is an endorsement of China’s politics towards Taiwan,…

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Just out: a thoughtful paper on Taiwan’s regulatory response to the COVID-19 pandemic

I just came across this paper, posted April 21, 2020 on the Social Science Research Network: Lin, Ching-Fu; Wu, Chien-Huei;…

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