"The impact of Taiwan’s election in 2024 and beyond" - by CWP alum Patricia M. Kim & Adam P. Liff

In a closely watched election, Taiwan’s voters elected Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate and current Vice President Lai Ching-te over Hou Yu-ih of the Kuomintang (KMT) and Ko Wen-je of Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) on January 13, 2024. In the legislature, no political party gained an outright majority. Brookings scholars assess the Taiwan election results and what they mean for the island, cross-Strait relations, and the U.S.-China-Taiwan triangle in 2024 and beyond.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-impact-of-taiwans-election-in-2024-and-beyond/ - 

Richard C. Bush, Ryan Hass, Patricia M. Kim, Adam P. Liff, Syaru Shirley Lin, Melanie W. Sisson, and Susan A. Thornton

January 17, 2024

Patricia M. Kim is a fellow at Brookings and holds a joint appointment to the John L. Thornton China Center and the Center for East Asia Policy Studies. She is an expert on Chinese foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and the politics and security of East Asia. At Brookings, she co-leads the Global China Project and the Brookings-CSIS Project on Advancing Collaboration in an Era of Strategic Competition. Previously, Kim served as a senior China specialist at the U.S. Institute of Peace, where she directed a project on U.S.-China strategic stability and served as the principal investigator for a major report on China’s growing footprint in Africa and the Middle East. She was also a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, International Security Program Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and postdoctoral fellow at the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program at Princeton University.

Adam P. Liff is a nonresident senior fellow with the Center for East Asia Policy Studies at Brookings. Since August 2023 he is the Visiting Chair of Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Liff is currently on leave from Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, where he is associate professor of East Asian international relations and founding director of the 21st Century Japan Politics and Society Initiative.

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