Taiwan in 2008: My Kingdom for a Horse

Asian Survey ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas B. Gold
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Taiwan Strait ◽  
Democratic Progressive Party ◽  
Postal Service ◽  
Legislative Yuan ◽  
The World ◽  
The Taiwan Strait ◽  
Progressive Party

The opposition Kuomintang (KMT) won overwhelming victories in the Legislative Yuan and presidential elections, leaving the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) demoralized and in disarray. Former President Chen Shui-bian was indicted on corruption charges and jailed pending trial. New President Ma Yingjeou moved quickly to improve relations across the Taiwan Strait, and the long-delayed Three Links (direct air, shipping, and postal service) began in December. Taiwan's economy fared badly along with much of the rest of the world.

Taiwan in 2016

Asian Survey ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis V. Hickey ◽  
Emerson M. S. Niou
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Democratic Progressive Party ◽  
Legislative Yuan ◽  
Progressive Party ◽  
Ruling Party

The opposition Democratic Progressive Party won decisive victories in the Legislative Yuan and presidential elections. Despite these victories, 2016 proved to be a difficult year for Taiwan’s new ruling party. As 2016 drew to a close, polls showed that most of Taiwan’s population disapproved of Tsai Ing-wen’s performance as president.

Taiwan in 2010

Asian Survey ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hung-Mao Tien ◽  
Chen-Yuan Tung
Keyword(s):  
Economic Cooperation ◽  
Taiwan Strait ◽  
Democratic Progressive Party ◽  
National Elections ◽  
Framework Agreement ◽  
Nationalist Party ◽  
Mayoral Elections ◽  
The Taiwan Strait ◽  
Economic Ties ◽  
Progressive Party

The November 2010 urban mayoral elections in Taiwan will set the stage for national elections in 2012 between the Nationalist Party and the rising Democratic Progressive Party. Meanwhile, Taiwan and China successfully concluded the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement in summer 2010, deepening economic ties across the Taiwan Strait.

scholarly journals Response to the Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pandemic: Lessons Learned from the Taiwan Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Charles Wu ◽  
Catherine Wu ◽  
Kun Chan Wu
Keyword(s):  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Taiwan Strait ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Metapopulation Model ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The World ◽  
The Taiwan Strait

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), or coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), emerged in December 2019 in Wuhan, China and has since then spurred a global pandemic (Lai et al., 2020). Taiwan and China, separated only by 130 km across the Taiwan Strait, have frequent cross-strait interactions with each other; millions of people travel to and from between the two countries (Wang & Lin, 2020). Considering these facts, Lauren Gardner, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University, even predicted that Taiwan will have the second highest number of COVID-19 cases among the world using a metapopulation model (Gardner et al., 2020). However, with a population of 23.7 million people, Taiwan leads one of the least COVID-19 cases worldwide. With the help of technology, swift reactions, advanced deployment of resources, and complete transparency, the Taiwan model has made its success. By analyzing the actions taken and how they functioned in Taiwan in preventing a nationwide epidemic, other countries may benefit in understanding how to design better models for the prevention of future epidemics and pandemics.

scholarly journals New Approaches to Cross-Strait Integration and Its Impacts on Taiwan's Domestic Economy: An Emerging “Chaiwan”?

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon C. K. Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Domestic Economy ◽  
Sea Transport ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Legislative Yuan ◽  
Postal Services ◽  
The Taiwan Strait ◽  
Taiwan Straits ◽  
Further Development

Taiwan's Legislative Yuan and Presidential elections in January and March 2008 respectively re-orientated cross-Strait relations from hostility to co-operation. On 4 November 2008, Chen Yunlin, head of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), and Chiang Pin-kun (Jiang Bingkun), chairman of Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), meeting in the Second Chiang-Chen Talks in Taiwan, took a historical step in the further development of cross-Strait relations. Agreements were signed on direct air and sea transport, postal services and food-safety security. On 22 December 2009, the Fourth Chiang-Chen Talks took place in Taizhong and more substantial and technical agreements were signed on agriculture, inspection/ accreditation and fisheries. It seems that continuous integration between China and Taiwan is inevitable. To address the implications of this process for Taiwan's domestic economy, four dimensions of the current cross-Strait relationship are scrutinized: guanxi, plutocracy, legalism and the idea of a Chinese Common Market. It is argued that in order to intensify economic co-operation across the Taiwan Strait, more institutionalization of the cross-Strait relationship must be brought about.

Taiwan election race stalls cross-Strait engagement

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Electoral Politics ◽  
Democratic Progressive Party ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Legislative Yuan ◽  
Progressive Party ◽  
Female President ◽  
Party Congress

Subject Electoral politics in Taiwan. Significance At the party congress of the ruling Kuomintang on June 19, Hung Hsiu-chu, deputy speaker of the Legislative Yuan, was formally recommended to represent the party in the presidential election on January 16, 2016. Hung will face Tsai Ing-wen, the chairwoman and presidential nominee of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), who ran unsuccessfully for the presidency in 2012. Barring a strong showing by an independent candidate, Taiwan will elect its first female president in 2016. Impacts Cross-strait agreements will stall during the election season and are unlikely to progress quickly under a DPP administration. Taiwan-US relations will improve as a result of Washington's growing frustration with Beijing. Unlike last time, Tsai will not face the perception that Washington favours the Kuomintang. A Tsai presidency would mean less business-friendly economic policies and moves toward decommissioning Taiwan's nuclear power plants. However, the Kuomintang is likely to retain control of the legislature, which would curtail Tsai's power considerably.

ANZUS Pacific Security pact

1960 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 345-345
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
The United States ◽  
Taiwan Strait ◽  
Secretary Of State ◽  
The World ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Taiwan Strait ◽  
Taiwan Area

The Council of the ANZUS Pacific Security Pact met in Washington on October 26, 1959. New Zealand was represented by Prime Minister Walter Nash; Australia by Minister for External Affairs Richard G. Casey; and the United States by Secretary of State Christian Herter. The representatives of the three member nations voiced their concern that the destructive violence in Asia of the Chinese Communists and their threat of a “liberating” war in the Taiwan Strait should continue to pose a serious threat to the peace of the world; they reiterated their conviction in this context that any resort to force of arms by the Chinese Communists in the Taiwan area or elsewhere could only be regarded as an international problem affecting the stability of the region.

scholarly journals Taiwan’s perilous futures: Chinese Nationalism, the 2020 Presidential Elections, and U.S.-China Tensions Spell Trouble for Cross-strait Relations

World Affairs ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 183 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-61
Author(s):  
Peter Gries ◽  
Tao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Elections ◽  
The United States ◽  
Taiwan Strait ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Chinese Nationalism ◽  
China Trade ◽  
Trade War ◽  
The Taiwan Strait ◽  
Heating Up

The Taiwan Strait is heating up, as Mainland Chinese netizens, generals, and politicians increasingly talk about ‘forceful’ rather than ‘peaceful’ reunification. While Xi Jinping and Chinese nationalists desperately desire Taiwan’s reunification, Trump’s isolationist “America First” rhetoric has only encouraged reckless Chinese thinking about forcing reunification, and the Taiwanese remain largely passive, unable to confront an overwhelming threat. Wishful thinking in Beijing, Taipei, and Washington is increasing the odds of miscalculation. The 2020 presidential elections in Taiwan and the United States, and the ongoing U.S.-China trade war, furthermore, bode ill for peace in the Taiwan Strait.

scholarly journals No Winds of Change: Taiwan's 2012 National Elections and the Post-Election Fallout

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunter Schubert
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Progressive Party ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
China Policy ◽  
National Elections ◽  
Opposition Party ◽  
Legislative Yuan ◽  
The Future ◽  
Election Results ◽  
Progressive Party

Taiwan held its first combined national elections on 14 January 2012. Though the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the largest opposition party, fared much better in the Legislative Yuan elections than it did in 2008, DPP presidential contender Tsai Ying-wen's (Cai Yingwen) clear defeat at the hands of the Kuomintang (KMT, Guomindang) incumbent, Ma Ying-jeou (Ma Yingjiu), in the presidential race came as a surprise. The article examines the election campaigns of both Tsai and Ma, summarizes the election results, and analyses the reasons why the DPP failed to retake the presidency. It then discusses the postelection debate within the DPP on the future of its China policy and ponders what can be expected from the second Ma administration.

Exploring the Complexities of Contemporary Taiwan

1996 ◽  
Vol 148 ◽  
pp. 1045-1053 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Shambaugh
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Taiwan Strait ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The World ◽  
International Attention ◽  
The Republic Of China ◽  
Military Coercion ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Taiwan Strait

Taiwan entered the international spotlight in 1996. No longer seen as just an economic powerhouse and diplomatic dilemma, the Republic of China on Taiwan (ROCOT) caught international attention in two new dimensions: politics and security. In March the ROCOT's first ever direct presidential election took place against the backdrop of unprecedented military coercion from the People's Republic of China (PRC). The world watched nervously as Taiwan's presidential candidates campaigned while Chinese missiles landed near the island's two major ports and air and naval forces of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) held live-fire exercises in the Taiwan Strait.

Continuity and Change in the US–China–Taiwan Relations

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-200
Author(s):  
John Fuh-sheng Hsieh
Keyword(s):  
Median Voter ◽  
The United States ◽  
Democratic Progressive Party ◽  
International Level ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Triangular Relationship ◽  
Progressive Party

The relations between China and Taiwan (cross-Strait relations) have been a thorny issue for all parties concerned. These relations are one of the flashpoints in the world, which may trigger a serious military conflict. They involve not only China and Taiwan but also the United States. The purpose of this paper is to account for the trajectory of this triangular relationship with the help of opinion surveys in Taiwan. It is shown that when the Kuomintang (KMT) gains the governing power in Taiwan, Taiwan is the median voter in the cross-Strait relations game at the international level while as a non-traditional KMT or the Democratic Progressive Party is in power, it is the US that turns out to be the median voter.

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