Taiwanese Politics and US-China-Taiwan Relations Under Trump 2.0 with S. Philip Hsu

The talk will examine the following aspects of the U.S.-Taiwan-China relations: 1. how the Taiwan society views the U.S. and China, and the main developments in Taiwan’s party politics/democratic governance since President Lai was inaugurated in 2024; 2. the implications of U.S. foreign policy under Trump 2.0 for the trilateral relations; and 3. the implications of China’s policies toward the U.S. and Taiwan for the trilateral relations. Philip Hsu holds dual appointments currently as Professor at the Department of Political Science and Professor at the School of Political Science and Economics, National Taiwan University. He is also Executive Director of Center for China Studies, College of Social Sciences, NTU. During July 2022~January 2023, he was a visiting fellow at the Center for East Asia Policy Studies of Brookings Institution, and a Fulbright scholar. He was president of the Chinese Association of Political Science (Taipei), and is now on the supervisory boards of the Chinese Association of Political Science (Taipei) and the R.O.C. Association of International Relations. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, USA. He was on the Advisory Committee under the Sea Exchange Foundation, and the Advisory Committee under Mainland Affairs Council, Executive Yuan, Taiwan. Professor Hsu’s research interests include comparative politics (with particular emphasis on the People’s Republic of China), political economy, and international relations (with particular emphasis on Asia-Pacific international security and economic cooperation). His articles have been published in The Pacific Review, Australian Journal of Public Administration, Journal of Contemporary China, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Issues & Studies, Journal of Chinese Governance, etc. He is also a co-editor of twelve edited volumes published in Taiwan, China, and the English-speaking world, such as In Search of China’s Development Model: Beyond the Beijing Consensus (co-edited with Yu-Shan Wu and Suisheng Zhao) (New York: Routledge, 2011), and Minzhu, Minzhuhua, and Zhili Jixiao (Democracy, Democratization and Governance Performance) (with Yu Xunda)(Hangzhou, China: Zhejiang University Press, 2011).