Jieh-min Wu is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, and served as a director at the Center for Contemporary China, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. He works on Sino-Taiwan relations, political and economic development in China, and democracy and civil society in Taiwan. He will publish Rent-Seeking Developmental State in China: Taishang, Guangdong Model and Global Capitalism in March 2019, a book series jointly published by National Taiwan University Press and The Harvard-Yenching Institute.
Last Updated: January 23, 2019
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01.24.19
What Does Xi Want from Taiwan? (And What Can Taiwan Do About It?)
In a major speech in early January, China’s leader Xi Jinping called unification across the Taiwan Strait “the great trend of history,” and warned that attempts to facilitate Taiwan’s independence would be met by force. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-...