Taiwan's Go South Policy: Déjà vu All Over Again?

Ngeow, Chow Bing

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“…11 Although President Lee’s attempts at reinforcing Taiwan’s existing diplomatic relations and attempts to re-join international organisations yielded mixed results, the Go South Policy was instrumental in enhancing Taiwan’s substantive relations with ASEAN members through increasing economic cooperation and trade (Hickey, 2007, p. 90). President Chen Shui-Bian also launched a Go South Policy by stating that ‘we cannot have too high an expectation of China, especially in economics and trade…the market in Mainland China is neither the sole, nor the safest, nor the final external market of Taiwan…[and hence] we must emphasize investment in Southeast Asia’ (quoted in Bing, 2017, p. 106). 12…”

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“…President Chen’s version of the Go South policy focused specifically on the more developed ASEAN countries like Singapore, with the goal of entering into regional economic agreements, encouraging and supporting Taiwanese companies to invest in Southeast Asia, and diverting Taiwanese investment from mainland China to Southeast Asia (Bing, 2017, p. 106-107). President Chen’s Go South policy actively pushed for the signing of FTAs with ASEAN members, and high-level visits through ‘visit diplomacy’ and ‘vacation diplomacy’ tactics continued under President Chen in similar fashion to that of his predecessor (Bing, 2017, p. 107).…”

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“…Under Ma Ying-Jeou’s presidency (2008–2016), ‘viable diplomacy’ replaced ‘pragmatic diplomacy’ (Bing, 2017, p. 110). 13 This period witnessed an increase in cross-strait economic and cultural relations (Tsang, 2012, p. 395).…”

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“…12.Belonging to the ‘independent minded’ Democratic People’s Party (DPP), President Chen was an advocate of the notion of reducing Taiwan’s reliance on mainland China as part of his vision of an ‘independent Taiwan’ (Bing, 2017, p. 106).…”

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“…13.While both paradigms of ‘viable diplomacy’ and ‘pragmatic diplomacy’ aimed to develop Taiwan’s substantive non-diplomatic relations with Southeast Asia, viable diplomacy also sought to improve Taiwan’s relations with China and adopt a less confrontational stance to Cross-Strait relations than President Chen’s policy (Bing, 2017, p. 111; Hsieh, 2019, p. 106). President Ma never launched an official version of the ‘Go South’ policy like his predecessors, yet part of his viable diplomacy paradigm did focus on enhancing relations with Southeast Asia (Bing, 2017). …”

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Prospective policy analysis—a critical interpretive synthesis review

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Most policy analysis methods and approaches are applied retrospectively. As a result, there have been calls for more documentation of the political-economy factors central to health care reforms in real-time. We sought to highlight the methods and previous applications of prospective policy analysis (PPA) in the literature to document purposeful use of PPA and reflect on opportunities and drawbacks. We used a critical interpretive synthesis (CIS) approach as our initial scoping revealed that PPA is inconsistently defined in the literature. While we found several examples of PPA, all were researcher-led, most were published recently and few described mechanisms for engagement in the policy process. In addition, methods used were often summarily described and reported on relatively short prospective time horizons. Most of the studies stemmed from high-income countries and, across our sample, did not always clearly outline the rationale for a PPA and how this analysis was conceptualized. That only about one-fifth of the articles explicitly defined PPA underscores the fact that researchers and practitioners conducting PPA should better document their intent and reflect on key elements essential for PPA. Despite a wide recognition that policy processes are dynamic and ideally require multifaceted and longitudinal examination, the PPA approach is not currently frequently documented in the literature. However, the few articles reported in this paper might overestimate gaps in PPA applications. More likely, researchers are embedded in policy processes prospectively but do not necessarily write their articles from that perspective, and analyses led by non-academics might not make their way into the published literature. Future research should feature examples of testing and refining the proposed framework, as well as designing and reporting on PPA. Even when policy-maker engagement might not be feasible, real-time policy monitoring might have value in and of itself.

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Taiwan's Go South Policy: Déjà vu All Over Again?

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

India, Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific: Economic–Security Strategic Partnership and Expected Utility Theory

India, Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific: Economic–Security Strategic Partnership and Expected Utility Theory

Rethinking non-recognition: Taiwan’s new pivot to ASEAN and the one-China policy

Prospective policy analysis—a critical interpretive synthesis review

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