Taiwan Insight

River and Sea · Plateau · Resonance: The Possibility of Peace in a Turbulent World

17 April 2026 NGA Shi Yeu

Written by Kefei Cao. The author traces her personal and historical journey across the Taiwan Strait, moving from lived encounters to reflections on war, memory, and coexistence. Drawing on Lung Ying-tai and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, she proposes theatre as a space for reimagining peace beyond binary divisions, where vulnerability, dialogue, and shared humanity become the grounds for fragile yet enduring connection.

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Taiwanese Peace as a crucial engagement to advance decolonisation for Japan

15 April 2026 Adrian Chiu

Written by Yoshitaka Ota. This article argues that the first step toward contributing to Taiwanese peace is to stop creating a common enemy between Taiwan and Japan and to start taking Taiwanese agency seriously. Japan should also exercise its agency to recognise and depart from the permanence of coloniality, which continues to create China as a common enemy, rather than looking at itself as the enemy once.

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Peace and Democracy: A Symbiotic Relationship

13 April 2026 Adrian Chiu

Written by Wu Yu-Shan. This article argues that Taiwan urgently needs to establish a public body of knowledge surrounding “peace research”. Peace research concerns not only the safety of life but also the survival of democracy and freedom. Nascent democracies under the shadow of war, like Taiwan, face external threats, security dilemmas, and cultural deficits. Therefore, to protect democracy, we must first protect peace.

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Why Development Projects Are Failing Taiwan’s Aboriginal Peoples

4 December 2017

Written by Agathe Lemaitre. In this article I will explain briefly the difficulties encountered in the implementation of development project for aboriginal people organized by the

The Obstacles to Agreeing an EU-Taiwan Investment Agreement

27 November 2017

Written by Michael Reilly. In October 2015 the European Commission announced that it would ‘explore launching negotiations on investment with [….] Taiwan.’ For a country that

Language in the study of Dutch Formosa

20 November 2017

Written by Ann Heylen. Ahead of my talk on the history of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) on 22 November, I have decided to

Taiwan in a Challenging East Asia Security Environment

14 November 2017

Written by Gordon Houlden. The retreat of the Republic of China (ROC) government and its armed forces to Taiwan did not occur in a strategic

The New Southbound Policy: Tsai’s Soft Power Alternative

13 November 2017

Written by Mariah Thornton. During the presidential debate of 2016, then Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Tsai Ing-wen boldly posited: ‘When the maintenance of our diplomatic

Catalonia, Taiwan, and the Centralising State (part II)

8 November 2017

Written by Ben Goren. In the first part of this article, I briefly explored the wider historical contexts of current rising claims to independence in Catalonia and

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