Asia Report #57 | January 19, 2022
United Nations Resolution 2758 seating the People’s Republic of China (PRC) at the UN passed its 50th anniversary in 2021. Fifty years on, China continues its campaign to influence the diplomatic relations and international recognition of Taiwan. While the PRC’s UN seat is undisputed, the deleterious impact of Taiwan’s exclusion from multilateral organizations and constraints on its global engagement became more than evident in a pandemic hit world.
The Sigur Center for Asian Studies dedicated its final Roundtable of 2021 to unpack these concerns and discuss the implications. The discussants included keynote speaker, Liang-Yu Wang, Deputy Representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office-U.S., and panelists Pasha L. Hsieh, Associate Professor and Dean at Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law, and Michael Mazza, Nonresident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, the Global Taiwan Institute, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. The discussion was moderated by Deepa Ollapally, Associate Director of the Sigur Center.
