The Taiwanese context on issues of sovereignty, self-determination, the rights of peoples in a democracy and the status of a small island nation in the global geopolitical order cannot be easily defined within one written stroke. But it can be evoked within the scope of a network of observations and continuums. The development of certain issues over time can be marked out. The rough estimate of the place Taiwan is in spans the continuums of cross-strait relations and sovereignty issues, as well as certain movements both social and economic — alongside unavoidable exigencies of the current moment like the proliferation, but also the fragmentation and limitation, of AI, its effects on the rights of people, and its consequences to democracy. The following are markers in the space mapped out by these observations and continuums.
Open letter to An open letter to the citizens of a democratic Taiwan, 09 January 2019
In 2019, a group of concerned international scholars and writers wrote an Open Letter to the citizens of a democratic Taiwan and warned them to stand unified in the face of Chinese disinformation and election interference.
Taiwan Election: Disinformation as a Partisan Issue | FSI
Stanford University has looked into the disinformation efforts by Chinese agents in Taiwanese elections.
Doublethink Lab
There are organizations based in Taiwan specializing in combating disinformation, “Doublethink Labs” being one of them.
Fighting Fake News and Disinformation in Taiwan: An Interview with Puma Shen | New Bloom Magazine
New Bloom Magazine interviewed the director of “Doublethink Labs” about the disinformation situation in the Taiwanese elections of 2020.
Think tank urges measures against election interference - Taipei Times
On Sep. 21, 2023, it was published by the Taipei Times that the think tank “Economic Democracy Union” was calling for “stronger legal measures to counter electoral interference and to bolster campaign transparency” in a proposed law about election advertising.
Taiwan must prepare for impending propaganda tsunami | Taiwan News | 2023-03-12 21:10:00
A stark warning was published by Taiwan observer Courtney Donovan Smith in Taiwan News in March 2023 counseling about a type of AI that can “write passable articles and even entire books with limited prompts very quickly, opening the floodgates to fill fake news sites and social media accounts with an unimaginable volume of content.”
China blogs spread conspiracy theory about Hawaii fires - Taipei Times
Disinformation researchers found a “disinformation campaign of Chinese origin” spreading a conspiracy theory about the Hawaii wildfires. Subsequently, “a source with insight into the matter said that China’s use of algorithms in propaganda would likely increase, making it more difficult for users to distinguish fake stories from real ones in the future.”
Call After Eslite Purchase of Book on Chinese Invasion More Comical than Intimidating, But Suggests Leaks | New Bloom Magazine
Major news in May of 2023 included analysis of suspected Chinese Mainlander partisans calling customers of the Eslite bookstore on Taiwan after a suspected leak of Eslite sales data on who had purchased copies of a particular political book about cross-strait rivalries.
Taiwan can be East Asia’s new internet and data hub｜Insight｜2022-05-05｜web only
After the Chinese government passed an oppressive National Security Law in Hong Kong, Taiwan is poised to make major gains as a global data center.
Taiwan to add subsea Internet cables - Taipei Times
Taiwan’s efforts to improve and protect the undersea cables linking Taiwan to the world are crucial in support of becoming a significant partner in the data industry.
Blockade a ‘monster risk’ for China: US officials - Taipei Times
The latest in an evolving set of security concerns for Taiwan is the possibility of a “blockade” which still agitates security analysts.
Blinken stresses Taiwan Strait stability - Taipei Times
The security situation has caused U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to stress the importance of Taiwan Strait stability in recent talks with Chinese officials in September.
US finalizes rules to keep China from CHIPS funds - Taipei Times
As a final note, the implementation of the CHIPS Act continues to raise the stakes of computing, noting that “quantum computing current-generation and mature-node chips” are in production.
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