Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg: Informationen zur Veranstaltung: ASEAN, SCO, and Taiwan’s Desecuritization Options

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Mittwoch
15
MAI

18.00 Uhr

ASEAN, SCO, and Taiwan’s Desecuritization Options

SHIH Chih-yu

The US-China rivalry over Taiwan reveals the Taiwan issue’s ontological security nature. For Taiwan to become an independent sovereign nation, no immediate change in the balance of power is required. However, this would destroy the regime legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party but strengthen the US’ reputation as the protector of liberal democracy. Against this background of deadlock, the idea of singular sovereignty has provided an obstacle to any solution. My provocative lecture considers a non-solution that targets the population’s identity rather than the territory. The solution is for the Taiwanese population to substitute two concurrent passports, one from the People’s Republic of China and the other from the US, for its present Taiwan passport. Unification with China would cease to allude negatively to security and turn the US-China rivalry into coexistence. The discussion has policy implications for disputes of territorial jurisdiction elsewhere.

Chih-yu Shih is National Chair Professor of the Ministry of Education and University Chair Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University. With his concept of Post-Chineseness and combining the fields of international relations, cultural politics, and intellectual history, Shih boldly challenges the essentialized notion of Chineseness in existing scholarship through the revelation of the multiplicity and complexity of the uses of Chineseness by strategically conceived insiders, outsiders, and those in-between. He is the author and editor of many books, including Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Studies of China and Chineseness: Unlearning Binaries, Strategizing Self and Post-Chineseness: Cultural Politics and International Relations.

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Institut für Sinologie

010.01.05

Voßstraße 2

69115 Heidelberg

Homepage Veranstaltung

https://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie/research/tls

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Institut für Sinologie

Homepage Veranstalter

www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie

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Institut für Sinologie

Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Taiwan Lecture Series 2024 ':

This year’s Taiwan Lecture Series is devoted to questioning Sinophone Authenticities from cross-sectional perspectives. Approaching the topic In Search for Home—Authenticity and Chineseness in Taiwan and the SinophoneWworld, it will consist of four sections, and offer views from art, politics, literature and gender studies. It will begin with a section “Contesting Home—Artistic Renderings” with Taiwan Sound and Visual Artist, FENG Chi-han (Taiwan/Hong Kong), a second section on “Post-Chineseness in Taiwan Politics” with SHIH Chih-yu (National Taiwan University), a third on “Travel Writing and Taiwan Identities” with LIN Shu-hui (National Taiwan Normal University), and a last on “Homing Feminism in the Sinophone World” with Paola ZAMPERINI (Northwestern University).

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An Ontological Security Dilemma—Beijing, Washington Taipei

SHIH Chih-yu

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ASEAN, SCO, and Taiwan’s Desecuritization Options

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