As the China-Russia partnership rises, the US is entering a crucial presidential election. How to face this reality and China and Russia’s interference in the US election and democratic values in general, is a pressing challenge for our time.
What is Taiwan? What is the tradition of literature in Taiwan? These questions still haunt modern Taiwanese society.
The future remains unknown, and we are still groping forward in the mist, much like the farmers in “Reasons of the Land” who nearly got lost in the bamboo grove.
Building strategic empathy at the grassroots level and across the public and private sectors can help the United States, China, and Taiwan to build mutual understandings from which constructive dialogue may occur.
With increased vigilance in Taiwan’s government, China is likely to shift pro-Beijing fifth column network development toward Taiwan’s non-national security sectors, coupled with gray zone and united front operations, to intensify its political and cognitive warfare against Taiwan.
The Sun Falls On Hainsaran takes the reader on a journey, through Chu’s graceful prose, of the nature and life of Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule.