Tsai Ing-Wen and Taiwan: An Assessment of the First Administration, 2016-2020 critically examines the public policy and presidency of Taiwan''s first female president, Tsai Ing-wen, who first came into office in 2016 and completed a second term in 2024. Enough time has passed since the end of Tsai''s first term in office for scholars, commentators, and observers to have a clear view and understanding of her presidency. Tsai Ing-Wen and Taiwan analytically appraises her first term in office vis-a-vis her economic, social, and political agenda and policies and, ultimately, the implications of those agendas and policies on the national interest of Taiwan and its 24 million citizens. The book answers the many questions concerning whether the president kept the promises she made during the campaign, whether she was able to overcome the challenges her administration faced. Tsai Ing-Wen and Taiwan also looks at her government''s ability to balance the hostilities emanating from the other side of the Taiwan-Strait (China) and the demands and ambiguities of US foreign policy. Finally it assesses whether her administration was in tune with the changing undercurrents of an increasingly shifting society, and if her government''s policies resulted in the better economic outlook of the average Taiwanese.>

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Sabella Ogbobode Abidde is professor of political science and a member of the graduate faculty at Alabama State University Montgomery. He holds a BA in international relations and an MSC in educational administration from Saint Cloud State University Minnesota, an MA in political science from Minnesota State University Mankato, and a Ph.D. in African studies, world affairs, public policy and development studies from Howard University.

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Select Policies and Performance During the First Administration, Sabella Ogbobode Abidde (Alabama State University Montgomery, USA)

Section One: Issues In Domestic Policy

Chapter 1: Tsai Ing-wen's Strategic Governance in Taiwan (2016-2020), Mohamad Al Mokdad (PGS University of Paris, France)
Chapter 2: President Tsai's Energy Policy During the First Term, Wesley Wei-Hua Chen (Central Police University, Taiwan)
Chapter 3: Economic &Trade Interdependence Between Taiwan (ROC) And China (PROC), Frank Tian Xie (University of South Carolina, USA) and Shu-Chen Tsao (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Chapter 4 Analyzing Regional Revitalization Policy in Taiwan: Rethinking the Implementation of Regional Revitalization Strategies During the Tsai Government, Phyllis Wei-Lih Yeh (Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)
Chapter 5: Gender Matters in Tsai Ing-wen's First Term: The First Woman President, the Cabinet Appointments, and Same-Sex Marriage in Taiwan, Young-Im Lee (California State University - Sacramento, USA)
Chapter 6: Deepening Taiwanization of Culture - Cultural Policy in Taiwan from 2016 to 2020, Wu Chieh-Hsiang (National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan)

Section Two: Issues In Foreign Policy
Chapter 7: Taiwan's Foreign Policy During Tsai's Leadership: The Quest For Survival, Sasa Istenic Kotar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Chapter 8: To Move Is To Prove: The Hypocrisy Of Sovereignty And Migration Legislation Regulating 'Non-Resident Nationals' In Taiwan And China, Isabelle Cockel (University of Portsmouth, UK) and Yen-Fen Tseng (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Chapter 9: Institutional Competition Under the Competition of Great Powers: Cross-Strait Relations Since 2016, Johnson Shan-Son Kung (Institute for National Defense and Security Research, Taiwan)
Chapter 10: Strategic Economic Relations: Taiwan and the GCC amidst Rising Chinese Influence, 2016-2020, Haila Al Mekaimi (Kuwait University, Kuwait)
Chapter 11: Taiwan's Public Diplomacy and The Relations with Southeast Asian States Since 2016, Yung Lin (Leiden University, Netherlands)
Chapter 12: Concluding Commentary: The presidency of Tsai Ing-wen: Successes and setbacks from 2016-2024, David Pendery (National Taipei University of Business, Taiwan)