2022 ANU Taiwan Update
Date: Tuesday 29 November 2022
Time: 11:30am–5:30pm AEDT
Location: Online
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Four keynote addresses will grant participants in the Update a uniquely well-informed view of where Taiwan stands today and what lies ahead.
Taiwan is featuring with ever greater frequency in Australian discussions surrounding the diplomacy, politics, security, business, and culture of the East Asian region. It is, therefore, an opportune time to launch an annual ANU Taiwan Update under the auspices of the ANU Taiwan Studies Program. Drawing on the best of scholarship on Taiwan from Australia and internationally, including from Taiwan itself, the Update will present informed and authoritative information and analysis on where Taiwan is situated in 2022, including in relation to its great neighbour across the Strait.
This year’s update begins on the evening of Monday 28 November with an in-person and online panel discussion on the current state of cross-strait relations, focussing on strategic concerns, on cyber-security and disinformation, and on business. On Tuesday 29 November, four keynote addresses will be presented by experts from Taiwan and the UK on Taiwanese environmental literature, major social changes since 2000, internal politics and the local elections — which will be held just before the Update — and on the Taiwanese semi-conductor industry. Together these presentations will grant participants in the Update a uniquely well-informed view of where Taiwan stands today and what lies ahead.
Environmental Literature in Taiwan | 11:30am – 12:30pm AEDT
- Professor Kuei-fen Chiu, National Chung-hsing University
- Chair: Professor Ari Heinrich, ANU
Keynote Address: Macro Social Changes in Taiwan after the First Regime Change in 2000 | 1:30pm – 2:30pm AEDT
- Professor Hsin-huang Michael Hsiao, Academia Sinica
- Chair: Associate Professor Benjamin Penny, ANU
Local elections in 2022: insights and implications | 3:00pm – 4:00pm AEDT
- Associate Professor Kai-ping Huang, National Taiwan University
- Chair: Associate Professor Benjamin Penny, ANU
The Unbearable Lightness of Connectivity: Semiconductor Manufacturing in Taiwan | 4:30pm – 5:30pm AEDT
- Associate Professor Chun-Yi Lee, University of Nottingham
- Chair: Associate Professor Benjamin Penny
Cross-Strait Relations: The Current Situation
Date: Monday 28 November 2022
Time: 5:30pm–7:30pm AEDT
Location: In-Person, CIW Auditorium
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The complexities of the cross-strait relationship and some of its fundamental factors will be examined from three different perspectives.
The year 2022 provided a number of opportunities to refocus on Taiwanese affairs. In August, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, visited Taiwan, provoking furious rhetoric from China’s government and its online community. In October at the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping reiterated the Chinese position on “reunification” as part of a speech setting the tenor for his unprecedented third five-year term as leader. In addition, war in Europe saw speculation – often uninformed – in the media of its significance for an understanding of Taiwan’s future. As a result, relations across the Taiwan Strait are as fraught as they have been for decades.
In this opening panel of the inaugural ANU Taiwan Update, three speakers address the current state of play from different angles: security, cyber-attacks and disinformation, and business. This combination of perspectives will provide insight into the complexities of the relationship and some of its fundamental factors as we look to the future.
Speakers:
- Dr Lennon Chang, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
- Ching-Mei Maddock, CEO, Australia-Taiwan Business Council
- Professor Brendan Taylor, Strategic & Defence Studies Centre, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, ANU
Chair: Associate Professor Amy King, Strategic & Defence Studies Centre, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, ANU
The ANU Taiwan Studies program is supported by the Republic of China Ministry of Education and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Canberra.
