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2. Winning hearts and minds: the PRC’s efforts to attract scientific talent
- Author:
- Yun Jiang
- Publication Date:
- 12-2022
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Australian Institute of International Affairs
- Abstract:
- In her second policy research report, Ms Yun Jiang, AIIA China Matters Fellow, assesses efforts by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to encourage the return of PRC-born scientists from abroad. Xi Jinping has made attracting returnee talent a priority to enable the PRC to achieve greater technological strength and self-reliance. Yun Jiang argues that these sometimes controversial programs have not met their objectives. Many top scientists are reluctant to return because of domestic policies in the PRC. At the same time, scientists of Chinese heritage in the United States face greater scrutiny and suspicion. Australia has an opportunity to attract some of this top scientific talent caught between the two countries.
- Topic:
- Science and Technology, Hegemony, Business, Strategic Competition, and Strategic Interests
- Political Geography:
- China and Asia
3. Taiwan, Cross-Strait Tension, and Security in the Indo-Pacific
- Author:
- Bryce Wakefield
- Publication Date:
- 11-2021
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Australian Institute of International Affairs
- Abstract:
- Tensions across the Taiwan Strait are rising and are potentially more serious than crises in the 1990s and even the 1950s. Military activity around Taiwan has increased, with China’s largest daily incursion into Taiwan’s Air Defence Identification Zone occurring in October 2021. Nevertheless, experts disagree as to whether such activity signals China’s intent to go to war over Taiwan or whether Beijing is posturing to a nervous international community. What is the likelihood of conflict over Taiwan? Could accidents around the island spark all-out hostilities? How should states in the region, like Australia and Japan, react to the current situation? How is the increased tension perceived in Taipei?
- Topic:
- Defense Policy, Military Strategy, Territorial Disputes, Conflict, and Borders
- Political Geography:
- China, Taiwan, and Asia
4. Trade and Supply Chain Issues for Taiwan and Australia
- Author:
- Bryce Wakefield
- Publication Date:
- 12-2021
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Australian Institute of International Affairs
- Abstract:
- Covid-19 has disrupted supply chains around the world, while political movements in the United States and Europe that predate the pandemic have raised the prospect that we are once more living in a world where regionalism and nationalism trump global integration of trade. China, meanwhile, has made it clear that it sees trade as a tool in its political statecraft, a factor that has been keenly felt in the region. Nervous actors in the Indo-Pacific are looking to diversify their trade away from China, but do nations in the region have many choices? What does this mean for Taiwan-Australia trade relations? How does Taiwan’s ambiguous position in the international system relate to recent trade agreements? Where do Taiwan and Australia, as mid-level powers, sit within the global trading order?
- Topic:
- International Trade and Finance, Public Health, Pandemic, and COVID-19
- Political Geography:
- China, Taiwan, Asia, and Australia