Date: 2021
Type: Other
The strategic communications of techno-democratic statecraft : the case of Taiwan
Policy Briefs, 2021/25, Global Governance Programme, EU-Asia Project, [Europe in the World]
INSISA, Aurelio, The strategic communications of techno-democratic statecraft : the case of Taiwan, Policy Briefs, 2021/25, Global Governance Programme, EU-Asia Project, [Europe in the World] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/71756
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The Tsai administration has deftly used Taiwan’s success in containing the COVID-19 pandemic to counter international isolation and increasing all-round pressure from Beijing through the strategic communications of a local ‘democratic model’ to fight the virus. This approach, in fact, is the result of a broader shift toward promoting the island’s ‘techno-democratic statecraft’ to domestic and foreign audiences, aiming at positioning Taiwan as both a new global leader in the fields of cyber defence and digital infrastructure and as an outpost of a futuristic strand of ‘digital democracy.’ The emergence of this strategy, which is a result of both domestic and cross-Strait drivers, on the one hand, and of the current competitive path of Sino-American relations, on the other, shows how great power competition and technological development are affecting the strategic communications of state actors in the Asia-Pacific.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/71756
Full-text via DOI: 10.2870/647900
ISBN: 978-92-9084-991-9
ISSN: 2467-4540
Series/Number: Policy Briefs; 2021/25; Global Governance Programme; EU-Asia Project; [Europe in the World]
Publisher: European University Institute
Keyword(s): Europe in the World