Written by Tom Wilson. Urban resilience drills in Taiwan have been promoted as a cornerstone of President Lai’s whole-of-society approach to preparing for contingencies and crises. How do they look in practice? Drawing on observations of the urban resilience exercise in Douliu, this article explores how everyday state-society relationships can shape and complicate efforts to build resilience.
Written by Dr Kristina Kironska. This article identifies three observations of the week-long interdisciplinary visit to Taipei, namely the centrality of resilience, Taiwan’s self-perception of being a small country and the prominence of AI across diverse settings and policy domains. The Taipei meetings offer the opportunity to observe Taiwan through multiple institutional lenses in a compressed period of time.
Written by Tom Wilson. As Taiwan prepares for the 2026 urban resilience exercises, this article examines a key challenge in the current approach: a mismatch between how resilience is formally defined and measured, and how it operates in practice in Taiwan crisis settings, where informal, trust-based community networks often play a central role.
