Will Taiwan’s Hard-Earned Relationship with Myanmar Change in the Post-Coup Era?

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Will Taiwan’s Hard-Earned Relationship with Myanmar Change in the Post-Coup Era?

Original language description

This chapter looks closely at the evolution of Taiwan’s relations with Burma/Myanmar, especially in the past ten years. When Taiwan embarked on its path to democratization, Burma/Myanmar was still under authoritarian rule with strong geopolitical influence coming from its large neighbor, China. Myanmar’s close alliance with China – the paukpaw (fraternal) relationship – constituted an obstacle for Taiwan to deepen relations with Myanmar. Nevertheless, there were still some economic and socio-cultural links, including Taiwan being home to a large, mostly Chinese-speaking, Myanmar community. A more engaging environment was created with the economic liberalization and the top-down transition to discipline-flourishing democracy (as the military termed it) in the 2010s in Myanmar and with the New Southbound Policy in Taiwan. Following the exchange of representative offices in 2016, economic and people-to-people links intensified. Still, the relationship was very cautious, especially in political terms, with Taiwan remaining quiet on the Rohingya issue. Following the military coup in Myanmar in 2021, Taiwan took a (mostly rhetorically) tougher line against the new military regime and accepted a parliamentary motion to criticize the coup. The Myanmar community in Taiwan came out to protest against the military, and the Milk Tea Alliance brought together campaigners from the region. While China has, with some hesitation in the beginning, increased cooperation with the Myanmar junta, Taiwan’s stance is attractive to the other side: the pro-democracy movement. Has Taiwan found a new way how to diffuse its co-optive power in Myanmar and bet on a value-based policy? Will this approach help Taiwan differentiate itself from China among the Myanmar people?

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

O - Projekt operacniho programu

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Taiwan and Southeast Asia: Soft Power and Hard Truths Facing China’s Ascendancy

ISBN

978-1-03-234080-7

Number of pages of the result

14

Pages from-to

111-124

Number of pages of the book

268

Publisher name

Routledge

Place of publication

Abingdon

UT code for WoS chapter

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