The lecture has three sub-sections. The first section starts from the role of Taiwan businesses in China and will provide perspectives on Taiwan's economic ties with China in general and the role of Taiwan businesses in particular. The second part of the lecture will address Chinese investments in Taiwan and, more specifically, why the scale of Chinese investment has been rather small in Taiwan. The third part of the lecture will discuss why the long-term economic integration between China and Taiwan has not increased the willingness of the majority of Taiwanese to be under Chinese governance.
About the lecturer
Dr. Chun-yi Lee is an Associate Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations, and Director of the Taiwan Studies Program at the University of Nottingham. Her first book, Taiwanese Business or Chinese Security Asset?, was published by Routledge in 2011. She is currently working on her second monograph, on semiconductor manufacturing and geopolitics. She is editor-in-chief of the online academic magazine Taiwan Insight and co-editor of the ‘Taiwan and World Affairs’ book series with Palgrave.
The Taiwan Matters lecture series has been funded by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan (ROC) through the Taipei Mission in Stockholm, Sweden.