This lecture will investigate cross-Strait economic interactions, including Taiwanese investment in China and Chinese investment in Taiwan. The lecture will apply theoretical framework, economic statecraft to explain why the bilateral economic investments cross-Strait, have not incentivised more Taiwanese people to align with mainland China, especially seeing the presidential and parliamentary election results in January 2024.
About the lecturer:
Dr. Chun-Yi Lee is Associate Professor at school of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham. She is also the director of Taiwan Studies Program at Nottingham. Chun-Yi's first book was published by Routledge in 2011: Taiwanese Business or Chinese Security Asset. The book is under Leiden Series in Modern East Asia History and Politics. Currently, Chun-yi is working on a public policy research project, to compare Taiwan and UK government's strategies to counter Covid-19. Meanwhile Chun-yi is working her second monograph on the topic of 'Sticky Decoupling: Geopolitics and Semiconductor supply chain'.