Taiwanese are watching US election very closely for good reasons, as pointed out by this NPR report that features a recent survey Lev Nachman, Hannah June Kim and I did for a The Brookings Institution piece. npr.org/2024/08/16/g-s…

Tim Walz’s long history with China shaped by horrors of Tiananmen and a massacre in South Dakota in 1890. ft.com/content/1527d9… 👇

An Expanded edition of my book “Taiwanese Presidential Elections”, including 2024 election, is now on sale in Taiwan. This is the only book that systematically analyzed all Taiwan Presidential Elections from 1996 to 2024 from the same angle. Written in Chinese😆

There are hot takes, and there are Dan Slater's hot takes!!!

I don’t know who from my fan club needs to hear this, but I’m from Nebraska ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

yet another stellar issue.🤩 on the new ethnic politics, Chinese surveillance technology in Israel, teaching China in Alabama Prisons, sociotechnical imaginaries of high-speed rail, African-Asian entanglement... all of your favourites from the past few months. so happy that my 3

new book on delivery workers and platform economy by Sun Ping, one of the foremost researchers in this field, based on 7 years of fieldwork in 19 cities. can't wait to get a copy of. scholar.google.com/citations?user…

NEW: Taiwan’s third-biggest party is fighting for its survival as its leader and top figures are mired in corruption and campaign finance scandals. I tried to make sense of the scale of Ko Wen-je’s troubles and how this might shift national politics. 1/2 asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Ko-We…

Spoke to Thompson Chau and Nikkei Asia about Ko Wen-je and TPP's recent corruption scandal: "The commentator took a dim view of the TPP's tactics, arguing its criticism of Taiwan's judiciary, prosecutors and ruling party have sown division and distrust." asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Ko-We…

台大開學嘍！

Excited to host CSIS Chinese Business & Economics event on Sept 11, 8:30-9:30 am US ET, highlighting results of our latest survey on how Taiwan industry is adapting to geostrategic risks, w/ commentary from Kristy Hsu (CIER), Lev Nachman (NTU), and Dan Silver (AmCham Taiwan). csis.org/events/hedging…

Join us for a virtual event on Sept. 11, 8:30 am ET, on how Taiwan industry is responding to geopolitical risks. Scott Kennedy hosts a discussion with Kristy Hsu (CIER), Lev Nachman (NTU), & Dan Silver (AmCham Taiwan). Watch and ask questions here: csis.org/events/hedging…

I've read through Oliver Kim and Jen-Kuan Wang's paper. In short, this empirical study is groundbreaking. It provides evidence for what some historians have been arguing: Taiwan's land reform success has been exaggerated and turned into a miracle narrative. Thread (1/15)

Comments from Ko in an interview by Thompson Chau in Nikkei Asia. I was amused by this line, since it shows Ko doesn't actually pay a lot of attention to US politics. I mean, the FBI searched Trump's home in Mar-A-Lago with Biden in power, did they not? asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks…

NEW: #Taiwan’s embattled opposition party leader Ko Wen-je spoke exclusively to Nikkei Asia after he was released from custody. Having risen spectacularly in politics, his woes appear Shakespearean. He talked about the probe, judiciary, defence etc. 1/7 asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks…