Keynote Address | From “Austere Rock” to “Most Dangerous Place on Earth”

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Australian Centre on China in the World

Brian Hioe discusses how Taiwan has gone from a place of relative obscurity to one of significant global focus.

ANU Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS)

2023 ANU Taiwan Update

In the 2023 ANU Taiwan Update, scholars and commentators grapple with the place of Taiwan in the world, how the Taiwanese government, media, and people deal with China's actions, the internal challenges  and what lies ahead.

In the past few years, Taiwan has gone from a place of relative obscurity to one of significant global focus. Although the threat of Chinese military invasion is not a new one, after the live-fire exercises that followed US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and an increased awareness of Taiwan’s importance to global supply chains, Taiwan is now spoken of as the “most dangerous place on Earth”—as the title of an article in The Economist described it. But what does the media narrative occlude about the situation in Taiwan? Is the possibility of a Chinese invasion spoken of in hyperbolic terms? Likewise, to this extent, do perceptions of the Chinese threat within Taiwan differ from international views?Brian Hioe is one of the founding editors of New Bloom, an online magazine covering activism and youth politics in Taiwan that was founded after the 2014 Sunflower Movement. He is currently a non-resident fellow at the University of Nottingham’s Taiwan Studies Programme.Hioe’s writing has been published in The Washington Post, The Nation, The Guardian, and The Diplomat. He regularly makes appearances to comment on Taiwanese politics in outlets including Al-Jazeera, the BBC, and others. <a href="https://ciw-prod.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/2023-08/2023%20ANU%20Taiwan%20Update%20Program.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">D﻿OWNLOAD</a> 2023 ANU Taiwan Update ProgramT﻿he ANU Taiwan Update is an initiative under the ANU Taiwan Studies Program 2022-25, which a partnership between the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University and the Ministry of Education, Republic of China (Taiwan).

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