Ben Goren is the co-founder and director of communications at the Taiwan Policy Centre, a non-partisan group set up to promote Taiwan in the U.K. His
AI Chatbots Could Be an ‘Immanent, Existential Threat’ to Taiwan
Online discussion around what the emergence of AI chatbots means for Taiwan has so far tended to focus on the details of what they are unintentionally
Our Q&A With ChatGPT About Taiwan Raised Issues
After years of Wikipedia and Google search results operating as battlegrounds for how Taiwan should be described, a new site of potential contestation
Biden’s State of the Union Address Was About China — But Not for the Reasons You Think
Predictably, U.S. President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech this week was framed by some as a “dramatic warning to China.” This rested on quotes
Chinese State Media Messaging More Effective Than America’s (Though the U.S. Has a Head Start)
Contrary to the idea of democracy’s inherent popularity, the Chinese government’s efforts to convince other countries’ citizens of the appeal of its
Meet the Man Tasked With Laying the Groundwork for Taiwan ‘Unification’
Last week, Nikkei Asia reported that Wang Huning (王滬寧), a high-ranking member of China’s Politburo Standing Committee, has been given the “mission is
An Interview With a Taiwanese Conscript (Part One: Who’s The Enemy?)
Taiwan’s decision to extend compulsory military service from four months to one year, effective Jan. 1, 2024, has energized an existing debate over
‘Beijing’s Global Media Offensive’ Is Full of Failure, but That Doesn’t Mean It Won’t Have an Impact
Increasingly, U.S. outlets carry statements like this: China’s government is “trying to choke shows of sympathy in America and silence voices in the
Taiwanese People Continue to Identify as Taiwanese, Over ‘Both Taiwanese and Chinese’
The Election Study Center at Taiwan’s National Chengchi University has released its annual survey results on political attitudes in Taiwan. They show
Former Deputy National Security Adviser Under Trump Says Xi Jinping ‘Changed the Game’ Over Taiwan
Matthew Pottinger, a deputy national security adviser under Trump, has said that China has “changed the game” under President Xi Jinping with its
Former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Pitches Democracy-Only Rival to WHO
Matthew Pottinger, a deputy national security adviser under Trump, has said China had consistently blocked the release of information about the COVID
What Does Chinese Government Propaganda Actually Look Like?
Let’s start with a complaint. There is a growing genre of “Chinese influence literature,” which seeks to describe the Chinese government’s attempts to