Taiwan Insight

Can Taiwan Replace Hong Kong as Asia’s Premier Financial Services Hub?

29 June 2020 Editor

Written by Lee Faulkner. The imposition of national security laws appears to be the final straw for Hong Kong. Such is the level of decline in in the city that formerly set the standard for jurisprudence in Asia that we don’t even know which legal system the new laws will fall under, nor which bodies will enforce them.

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President Tsai Needs to Choose her Allies Wisely in the Post-Pandemic US

11 June 2020 Editor

Written by Fumiko Sasaki. The Trump administration has intensified its anti-China campaign. Consequently, rhetoric has been strongly pro-Taiwan. Due to the increased negative sentiment toward China in the U.S., the presidential candidate from each party will need to take a tough stance toward China to win the election. Regardless of the election outcome, President Tsai Ing-Wen should not anticipate such trends to continue and must be wise in aligning with allies inside the U.S.

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Taiwan’s Economy and Future Prospects

28 May 2020 Editor

Written by Min-Hua Chiang. Despite economic shrinkage, the impact of COVID-19 on Taiwan’s economy is restrained compared to other countries. Singapore (-2.2%), European Union (-2.7%), USA (-4.8%), China (-6.8%) and Hong Kong (-8.9%) have reported a more significant drop in the first quarter of 2020. Taiwan’s success in controlling the spread of COVID-19 has minimized the impact of COVID-19 on its economy. As of May 11 2020, Taiwan reported 440 cases and seven deaths, lower than most other countries in the world.

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Taiwan and Free Trade Agreements – Missing the Wood for the Trees?

21 September 2016 Editor

Written by Michael Reilly. Apart from city-state entrepôts such as Hong Kong and Singapore, Taiwan is probably the most trade-dependent nation in the world. The

Taiwan’s trouble talking to the world

24 August 2016 Editor

Written by Gary Rawnsley. On 25 August 2016, China’s Xinhua News Agency posted a short film on Twitter about the construction of a pipeline between Fujian province

Taiwan and the Catholic Church

17 August 2016 Editor

Written by Michael Reilly. On 24 August the government in Taipei announced that Vice-President Chen Chien-jen will attend the 4 September canonization ceremony at the

The end of China-Taiwan rapprochement tourism

28 July 2016 Editor

Written by Ian Rowen. A fiery bus crash on July 19 near Taiwan’s Taoyuan airport tragically killed 24 Chinese tourists and the Taiwanese guide and driver,

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