International relations – Taiwan Insight

Two Bird’s-Eye Views: The Historical Interstices of WWII in Contemporary Taiwanese and Japanese Art

7 September 2026 Chee-Hann Wu

Written by Tsai Min-Ying. This article puts Taiwanese artist Li Li-chung and Japanese artist Kota Takeuchi in dialogue through their representations of WWII aerial warfare. The author reads their two video works side by side, revealing how artists from Taiwan and Japan each remember and reflect on war, contrasting a colonial view with an imperial view in their differing concerns about aerial warfare and challenging dominant historical narratives. Their nonhuman perspectives expose war’s perceptual violence while demonstrating art’s power to preserve memory and resist future violence.

Evading the Eye in the Sky: Beginning from the Window of a Wartime Photo Studio

4 September 2026 Chee-Hann Wu

Written by Tsai Min-Ying. This article examines how wartime air defence shaped Taiwan’s visual culture through a logic of self-concealment. The author traces works by Peng Ruey-lin, Chiu Tzu-Yen, and Huang Tonghong. She argues that colonial practices of hiding from aerial surveillance persist in contemporary art as a collective memory of war, survival, and identity.

From Hong Kong to Taiwan: Emotions, Identity, and Community in the Diaspora

28 August 2026 Chee-Hann Wu

Written by Judy Lee. This article examines how emotions drive community formation among Hongkongers who migrated to Taiwan after 2019. Lee argues that these migrants channel feelings of grief and love for their home city into positive community engagement, cultural production, and education, illustrating how emotion fuels the diaspora.

Twenty years of Taiwan in Avignon: soft power on someone else’s terms

14 August 2026 Chee-Hann Wu

Written by Romain Blachier. This article explores Taiwan’s twenty-year presence at the Festival Off d’Avignon, arguing that international cultural exchange is shaped by language, institutional practices, and artistic selection. It highlights how these factors influence what Taiwanese artists can communicate abroad and emphasises the value of sustained cross-cultural collaboration.

Taiwan’s view on Free and Open Indo-Pacific

12 August 2026 Adrian Chiu

Written by Dr Madhukar Shyam and Manya Singhal. This article argues that Taiwan’s foreign policy towards the Indo-Pacific should be analysed within the framework of the New Southbound Policy and President Lai’s NSP+. The FOIP strategy is perceived by Taiwan as an approach that will ensure its sovereignty. Beyond condemning China’s expansionism, Taiwan should adopt the “porcupine strategy”, invest more in defence equipment and build whole-of-society resilience.

Small State-itis: The Danger of Defeatism in Taiwan

6 August 2026 Adrian Chiu

Written by Thomas J. Shattuck. This article argues that local and foreign diplomats and politicians should not see Taiwan as a small country and therefore believe it has little chance against the PRC. There is so much more to geopolitical influence than landmass. When considering population, the stock market, per capita GDP, defence, and foreign relations, Taiwan plays a larger role in the world than one might expect.

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