Chin-peng CHU, deputy Principal of NDHU and Jean Monnet Chair, is the new president of CAPS.  Note that CAPS in Taipei was funded in 1932 at Nanking and then re-started in 1953 at Taiwan. http://www.capstaipei.org.tw/introduction/

It is necessary to understand the East Asian development before we think of the EU-East Asia Industrial interactions.  Moreover, the Taiwan-China relation is important for the adjustment of East Asian industrial supply chains.  I will teach this course mainly for postgraduate students to prepare for their advanced studies.  Therefore , the main course materials will be recent journal publications, or the newest working papers of the last three years by academic institutions including the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), IMF, Work Bank, BIS, CEPR, and ECB, etc.  Some issues related to the EU’s values (e.g., environmental pollution) are also covered.  The topics and readings (working papers and journal articles) will be updated according to the newest research results.  For instance, the papers below were the required readings of this course in the academic year 2020-2021: Campante, Filipe R., Davin Chor, and Bingjing Li (2019) “The political economy consequences of China&

For achieving the goal of the project “EU-East Asia Industrial interactions,” it is necessary to understand the EU’s strategies but also East Asian (especially China’s) development.   This course is 36 hours in a semester for undergraduate students taking the Program of Mainland  China Study at NTU.   Half of the course will cover issues related to the EU-China relations, especially for the EU’s response to China’s  BRI, Made in China 2025, and even China Standardization 2035, have been an important point for China’s industrial upgrading, the  changes in East Asian supply chains, and the EU’s industrial policies.   It will cover the following topics: 1.       Theory of industrial policies for the advanced and emerging economies 2.       Diplomatic interaction between the EU and China since 2005 3.       China’s BRI the responses from other countries (The cases of the EU, 17+1, and Taiwan) 4.       From “Made in China 2025” to “China Standardization 2035” 5.       Origin of th

Prof. Dr. Chin-Peng Chu, deputy president of NDHU and Jean Monnet Chair, invited me comment on the paper by Dr. Zsuzsa Ferenczy (VUB).

16 selected papers were presented and then will be published on the special issue on Journal of Social Sciences and Philosophy after a peer-review process.  I will be one of the guest editor of the special issue, which is expected to be published by the end of 2022.   September 30, 2021 Opening Remark (14:00-14:20 in Taipei) Prof. Dr. Tu, Suhao (Executive Editor, JSSP and Research Fellow, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica) Prof. Dr. Dessein, Bart (Guest Editor of the special issue, JSSP and Ghent University) Session 1 Cultural and Normative Issues (I) (14:30-16:00) Chair: Dessein, Bart (Ghent University) 1.   Dessein, Bart (Ghent University): EU Normative Power and Cross-strait Relations. 2.   Lai, Yun-chen (National Dong Hwa University): The Factor of Normative Power in the EU-China CAI: Transition from Strategic Partnership to Systematic Rivalry. 3.   Liu, Jia-hau (National Taipei University): Redefining Sovereignty: A Non-corporate S