Event Date: January 19, 2023 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm EST
Location: FSS 4004

Presented by CIPS and the Research Chair in Taiwan Studies

Is Taiwan’s fate in the balance? Since its foundation, the PRC has made the “reunification” of the island a non-negotiable objective, and has never renounced the use of force, with its constantly developing defense capabilities. In August 2022, the PLA engaged in an unprecedented show of force to assert its positions. However, since the democratization process started in the 1980s, Taiwan has been moving away ideologically from an increasingly closed China under Xi Jinping. But behind the appearances of power on one side, on the Continent, and weakness on the other, which can only lead to the ultimate success of Beijing, lie much more complex strategic, economic, and ideological power relations that the war in Ukraine has made even more certain. 

This event will take place in French.

Speaker :

Valérie Niquet is a Doctor of Political Science and head of the Asia Department at the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS). She was director of the Asia Center at IFRI where she created several study programs on China, India and Japan. She is the translator of two major works of Chinese strategy (Sun Zi’s Art of War and Sun Bin’s Military Treaty). Valérie Niquet is also the author of numerous articles and books on international relations and strategic issues in Asia. Her last two books “La Chine en 100 questions” and “Taiwan face à la Chine” were published in 2021 and 2022 by Tallandier. Valérie Niquet is a senior research fellow at the JIIA (Japan Institute for International Studies). Valérie Niquet is a Knight of the National Order of Merit.