Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1142/s1793930523000144
Wing-hung Mok, F. Choi, Gabriel Hoi-huen Chan, Chi-leung Liu
The fifth wave of COVID-19 in Hong Kong (2022) had brought a series of chaos to society. Nevertheless, its Asian neighbours, namely Singapore and Macao, have avoided such chaos. By investigating the well-rounded preventive measures and social environment in Singapore and Macao, this article highlights the Hong Kong government’s “idleness”. It reveals that the relationship between a government and its people does play a significant role in operating COVID-19 measures, which could directly prevent a large-scale outbreak.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1142/s1793930523000090
William Chih-tung Chung
The Taiwan–China competition in the grey zone area of the South China Sea is an extension of the confrontation between the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the Taiwan Strait. Diplomatic isolation, geographic constraint and inadequacy in deterrent credibility represent the major challenges for Taiwan against China’s expansionism in the region. This article examines Taiwan’s evolving positions in the South China Sea and explores Taiwan’s strategy of a point-line-surface defence framework to counter Beijing’s threats of grey zone activities.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1142/s1793930523000120
J. F. Copper
In late 2022, Taiwan held its every four years mid-term election that was comprised of almost all of its local electoral contests; the ruling Democratic Progressive Party lost. President Tsai Ing-wen was blamed for the defeat for having focused excessively on tension with China while ignoring local problems. She was also seen to depend too much on the Biden administration’s China’s policy. After the election, observers predicted the election would give the opposition Nationalist Party (or Kuomintang, KMT) momentum to win the national presidential, vice-presidential and legislative election in January 2024. Subsequent events and polls, however, indicated a close contest.
{"title":"Taiwan’s November 2022 Mid-term Election","authors":"J. F. Copper","doi":"10.1142/s1793930523000120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1793930523000120","url":null,"abstract":"In late 2022, Taiwan held its every four years mid-term election that was comprised of almost all of its local electoral contests; the ruling Democratic Progressive Party lost. President Tsai Ing-wen was blamed for the defeat for having focused excessively on tension with China while ignoring local problems. She was also seen to depend too much on the Biden administration’s China’s policy. After the election, observers predicted the election would give the opposition Nationalist Party (or Kuomintang, KMT) momentum to win the national presidential, vice-presidential and legislative election in January 2024. Subsequent events and polls, however, indicated a close contest.","PeriodicalId":41995,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42197751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1142/s1793930523000107
Bo-jiun Jing
This article examines Taiwan’s foreign policy towards Southeast Asia during Ma Ying-jeou’s two-term (2008–2016) and Tsai Ing-wen’s first-term (2016–2020) presidencies. It discusses the context of East Asian regionalisation and regionalism, and Ma’s and Tsai’s primary objectives for their strategies in relation to the ASEAN region. With a focus on their trade, investment, tourism and higher education policies towards the region, this article evaluates how successful their polices have been in achieving the goals in the relevant areas.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1142/s1793930523000132
V. Kozyrev
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 consolidated the West which seeks to secure the Putin regime’s strategic defeat in Ukraine. While refraining from a direct support of the Kremlin, China has demonstrated throughout this conflict a “pro-Russian neutrality” declaring a “no limits partnership” with Moscow which might result in a new bipolar confrontation between the West and the non-Western power centre with China and Russia on top of it. Being unable to directly confront the consolidated West, Beijing and Moscow have embarked on the path of a hybrid warfare strategy to modify America’s hegemonic behaviour by shifting global normative narratives, delegitimising the US leadership in the eyes of the broader international community and gaining support among the countries of the Global South.
{"title":"China’s Pro-Russian Neutrality Position in the Ukraine Crisis as Part of Its “Hybrid” Confrontation with the West","authors":"V. Kozyrev","doi":"10.1142/s1793930523000132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1793930523000132","url":null,"abstract":"Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 consolidated the West which seeks to secure the Putin regime’s strategic defeat in Ukraine. While refraining from a direct support of the Kremlin, China has demonstrated throughout this conflict a “pro-Russian neutrality” declaring a “no limits partnership” with Moscow which might result in a new bipolar confrontation between the West and the non-Western power centre with China and Russia on top of it. Being unable to directly confront the consolidated West, Beijing and Moscow have embarked on the path of a hybrid warfare strategy to modify America’s hegemonic behaviour by shifting global normative narratives, delegitimising the US leadership in the eyes of the broader international community and gaining support among the countries of the Global South.","PeriodicalId":41995,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45957652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1142/s1793930523000156
A. Fattah
For years, China and the United States have clashed on various issues, including trade, technology and the South China Sea. Strategic competition between the two superpowers had intensified under the Donald Trump administration, leading to worsening Sino–American bilateral relations. These tensions created resentment on both sides that influenced the respective country’s policies across a range of issues and led to a new phase of the conflict that some strategists had already characterised as a new Cold War.
{"title":"Sino–American Relations in the Trump Era","authors":"A. Fattah","doi":"10.1142/s1793930523000156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1793930523000156","url":null,"abstract":"For years, China and the United States have clashed on various issues, including trade, technology and the South China Sea. Strategic competition between the two superpowers had intensified under the Donald Trump administration, leading to worsening Sino–American bilateral relations. These tensions created resentment on both sides that influenced the respective country’s policies across a range of issues and led to a new phase of the conflict that some strategists had already characterised as a new Cold War.","PeriodicalId":41995,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49521831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1142/s1793930523000053
Gordon C. K. Cheung
China’s economic rise in global economic platform empowered by the go-out strategy is its attempt to establish a global presence, through which it develops economic relations by launching China-led development and economic projects. This article focuses on China’s Belt and Road Initiative, in particular the political significance of China’s economic footprints in the Middle East, with a view of understanding the geopolitical tensions between China and the United States.
{"title":"China’s Belt and Road Initiative: The Economic Footprints in the Middle East vs. Geopolitical Dimensions with the United States","authors":"Gordon C. K. Cheung","doi":"10.1142/s1793930523000053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1793930523000053","url":null,"abstract":"China’s economic rise in global economic platform empowered by the go-out strategy is its attempt to establish a global presence, through which it develops economic relations by launching China-led development and economic projects. This article focuses on China’s Belt and Road Initiative, in particular the political significance of China’s economic footprints in the Middle East, with a view of understanding the geopolitical tensions between China and the United States.","PeriodicalId":41995,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42831927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1142/s1793930523000028
Sung Chull Kim
North Korea’s missile firings aim at proving technological advancement before deploying the weapons in the field units, as well as demonstrating a show of force to the United States and its allies. These costly firings are financed by earnings from illegal cyberactivities and arms sales. North Korea’s nuclear threat has strengthened Seoul–Washington–Tokyo cooperation and has increasingly gained public support in South Korea towards the idea of possessing their own bombs.
{"title":"North Korea’s Nuclear Armament: Assessment of 2022 and Outlook of 2023","authors":"Sung Chull Kim","doi":"10.1142/s1793930523000028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1793930523000028","url":null,"abstract":"North Korea’s missile firings aim at proving technological advancement before deploying the weapons in the field units, as well as demonstrating a show of force to the United States and its allies. These costly firings are financed by earnings from illegal cyberactivities and arms sales. North Korea’s nuclear threat has strengthened Seoul–Washington–Tokyo cooperation and has increasingly gained public support in South Korea towards the idea of possessing their own bombs.","PeriodicalId":41995,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43542005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1142/s1793930523000041
T. Lim
On 17 December 2021, Japan granted administrative approval to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) to build a US$7 billion semiconductor chip-manufacturing foundry in Japan. The collaboration between the Sony Group and the world’s No. 1 Taiwanese chipmaker is named Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing, Inc. and will provide foundry service with 22/28-nanometre capability. This joint venture has taken off due to mutual commercial interest and support from the Japanese and Taiwanese authorities.
{"title":"Japanese Semiconductor Industry’s Collaboration with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company","authors":"T. Lim","doi":"10.1142/s1793930523000041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1793930523000041","url":null,"abstract":"On 17 December 2021, Japan granted administrative approval to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) to build a US$7 billion semiconductor chip-manufacturing foundry in Japan. The collaboration between the Sony Group and the world’s No. 1 Taiwanese chipmaker is named Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing, Inc. and will provide foundry service with 22/28-nanometre capability. This joint venture has taken off due to mutual commercial interest and support from the Japanese and Taiwanese authorities.","PeriodicalId":41995,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41616757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1142/s1793930523000089
P. Jain
After many decades of a relationship defined primarily by commercial ties, Japan and Australia now have a robust security and defence partnership. While making their bilateral relations more all-rounded in the Indo-Pacific era, they also aim to promote a regional order where the United States remains engaged and like-minded nations come together to manage the ever-volatile strategic environment in the wake of China’s rise and US–China strategic rivalry. These tasks are not easy due to strategic complexities; how the two key Indo-Pacific nations respond to each other and to their partners in managing the China challenge while ensuring US commitment to the region will be of deep interest to policymakers and analysts alike.
{"title":"Japan and Australia: Strengthening Partnership in the Indo-Pacific Era","authors":"P. Jain","doi":"10.1142/s1793930523000089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1793930523000089","url":null,"abstract":"After many decades of a relationship defined primarily by commercial ties, Japan and Australia now have a robust security and defence partnership. While making their bilateral relations more all-rounded in the Indo-Pacific era, they also aim to promote a regional order where the United States remains engaged and like-minded nations come together to manage the ever-volatile strategic environment in the wake of China’s rise and US–China strategic rivalry. These tasks are not easy due to strategic complexities; how the two key Indo-Pacific nations respond to each other and to their partners in managing the China challenge while ensuring US commitment to the region will be of deep interest to policymakers and analysts alike.","PeriodicalId":41995,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46684732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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