On March 12, 2024, Perry World House, the University of Pennsylvania’s center for global affairs, convened a private workshop titled Taiwan’s Geopolitics after 2024: Election Implications for the Indo-Pacific and Beyond. The workshop’s goal was to discuss how countries throughout the Indo-Pacific region and around the world would approach the incoming Lai Ching-te (賴清德) Administration and how Taipei’s new leader would carry out his foreign policy agenda. This workshop was made possible in part by Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Shapiro Global Workshop on Geopolitics Fund.
Conversations such as those held at the March workshop usually focus on the US perspective on Taiwan and cross-Strait relations. While the American viewpoint is critical for the future of peace and security in the Taiwan Strait, it often drowns out and dominates perspectives from countries and societies that also have a stake in Taiwan’s future. In order to provide a forum for these other perspectives, the workshop deemphasized the participation of Americans in favor of other voices from around the world. Perry World House hosted speakers from 14 countries—primarily from the Indo-Pacific region, but also Europe, Africa, and Latin America. Having such a diversity of speakers allowed for a truly global conversation on Taiwan’s future.
This special issue of the Global Taiwan Brief features views and analysis from the workshop participants. The articles represent some of the conversations that occurred in March 2024 at Perry World House, with perspectives from the Philippines, India, Somaliland, Japan, and Vietnam. Perry World House wishes to thank the Global Taiwan Institute for hosting this special issue of the Global Taiwan Brief.
