By:
Huynh Tam Sang
Truong Tuan Kiet
During the first Trump Administration (2017–2021), ties between the United States and Taiwan were strengthened, as demonstrated by the increase of arms sales from Washington to Taiwan. In June 2017, the Trump Administration approved a USD $1.4 billion arms sale to the island. Later, in October 2018, another arms package valued at USD $330 million received US approval. During Trump’s first four years in office, the US government authorized 11 arms deals with Taiwan, amounting to a total of USD $21 billion.
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Ben Levine
Taiwan’s current political landscape is one of divided government: the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP, 民進黨) controls the executive branch, while the opposition Kuomintang (KMT, 國民黨) controls the legislative branch in a coalition with the Taiwan People’s Party (民眾黨). In addition to the legislative branch, the KMT also holds the vast majority of local government positions (see image below). In this context, the KMT has considerable leverage over the DPP in regards to both the government’s budget and local-level administration.
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Maytapat Pararaman
On January 29, 2023, the Thai-Taiwan Business Association (TTBA, 泰國台灣商會聯合總會), a Taiwanese business organization founded to “protect the right and interests of Taiwanese businessmen [and] strengthen the Taiwanese community in Thailand,” organized the 2023 Taiwan Charity Run event at Suan Luang Rama IX, one of the most popular public parks in Bangkok. The group aimed to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Thai-Taiwan Business Association. Chadchart Sittipunt, the current Bangkok governor, and Chuang Suo-hang (莊碩漢), a former Taiwanese representative to Thailand, both attended the event. This sort of public event stands in contrast with the policy of Thailand’s neighbor Cambodia, which since 2016 has not allowed Taiwanese people to celebrate Taiwan’s National Day in their country.
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The Global Taiwan Institute (GTI) is pleased to announce the publication of a new occasional report titled The Chinese Communist Party’s Ideological Frameworks for Taiwan Policy.

This report was written by GTI Deputy Director John Dotson. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) employs a series of official ideological frameworks that inform and direct its Taiwan policies—to include its political warfare efforts intended to subvert Taiwan society, and to weaken the resistance of the island’s citzens to annexation on the terms of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Under the tenure of CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping, the party has steadily ramped up coercive pressure on Taiwan for “reunification,” and the CCP’s “ideological work” focused on Taiwan has intensified accordingly.

This report is the second of five planned reports in GTI’s Counter Ideological Work and Political Warfare research series. Subsequent papers in this series, forthcoming throughout the course of 2024, will delve into these aspects of political warfare in further detail.

Contributor: John Dotson

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