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Benjamin Sando
The Republic of Korea (ROK) President Yoon Suk Yeol’s attempted self-coup in December 2024 sent shockwaves through the Indo-Pacific region. On April 4, the Constitutional Court of Korea unanimously upheld Yoon’s subsequent impeachment by the ROK National Assembly. As a result, South Korea will now hold an early presidential election to replace Yoon within 60 days.
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John Dotson
The problem of espionage has once again been front-and-center in Taiwan’s news headlines during the first quarter of 2025. In January, a startling report from the usually secretive National Security Bureau (國家安全局, NSB) highlighted the increasing efforts by People’s Republic of China (PRC) intelligence and united front organizations to foster subversion throughout Taiwan society, including the efforts to build a fifth column of saboteurs and assassins by leveraging organized crime groups. This was followed later that month by the indictment of Kao An-kuo (高安國), a retired Republic of China (ROC) Army lieutenant general, and five associated individuals on charges of allegedly forming an “armed organization” for the purpose of conducting sabotage on behalf of PRC forces in the event of an invasion.
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Sasha B. Chhabra
In February, The Economist published the results of a stunning survey of China’s diplomatic aggression against Taiwan around the world. The results should serve as a wakeup call to Taipei: as of 2025, a decisive majority of internationally recognized sovereign states accept China’s fiction that Taiwan is a part of its territory. Of these, 70 fully endorse the Chinese regime’s threat of war to seize the island nation, including essentially every country in Africa. A majority of the “Global South” now subscribes to Beijing’s views—very much shredding the fiction that the Third World will be “non-aligned” in this century’s superpower competition.
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The Global Taiwan Institute (GTI) is pleased to announce the publication of a new occasional report titled US-Taiwan Relations: Advancing Four Pillars of the Strategic Partnership. This report examines the foundations of US policy toward Taiwan as defined by the Taiwan Relations Act, assessing how the strategic partnership has evolved across four key pillars—security, international space, economic ties, and people-to-people relations—and offering forward-looking policy recommendations to sustain peace and stability amid rising challenges from the People’s Republic of China.

The report was written by Derek Mitchell, non-resident senior adviser to the Office of the President and the Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Brent Christensen, an adjunct professor in Brigham Young University’s Political Science Department and an advisor at the Global Taiwan Institute, Russell Hsiao, executive director of GTI, and Adrienne Wu, program manager at GTI.

Contributors: Derek Mitchell, Brent Christensen, Russell Hsiao and Adrienne Wu

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