Abstract

In this panel discussion, three local speakers will give their take on the outcome on the 2024 Taiwanese presidential elections, and the implications of the elections on China’s foreign policy, US foreign policy and the overall state of US-China-Taiwan relations. To what extent the results of the Taiwan elections affect the future of the geopolitical security landscape of the region? What are the changes and continuities that we can expect from the new Taiwanese government in terms of cross-straits relations as well as its relations with the United States?

About the Speakers

Dylan M.H Loh received his PhD in politics and international studies at Cambridge University. He was a Graduate Research Fellow at the Center of Rising Powers at Cambridge University from 2016 to 2018 and a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Political Science, from September 2018 – February 2019. His work has been published in journals such as Pacific Review, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Cooperation and Conflict, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, International Relations of Asia-Pacific and International Studies Review. His research interests include Chinese foreign policy, ASEAN regionalism, diplomacy and practice theory.

Adrian Ang is a Research Fellow and Coordinator of the United States Programme, RSIS. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Missouri-Columbia and his research interests include American public opinion; political parties; elections, campaigns, and voting behaviour; and congressional politics.

Huang Chin-Hao is a Yale-NUS Associate Professor of Political Science and Head of Studies (Global Affairs) and he holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. His research and teaching focus on international relations and Asian security.

His books include Power and Restraint in China’s Rise (Columbia University Press, 2022); State Formation through Emulation: The East Asian Model (Cambridge University Press, 2022); and Identity in the Shadow of a Giant: How the Rise of China is Changing Taiwan (Bristol University Press, 2021).

His research has also been published in disciplinary journals such as International Organization, Perspectives on Politics, Foreign Policy Analysis, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, The China Quarterly, The China Journal, Asian Survey, Contemporary Southeast Asia, and International Peacekeeping, and in edited volumes through Oxford University Press and Routledge, among others. He serves on the editorial board of Political Science Quarterly and Contemporary Security Policy.