The recently assassinated former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe once said “A Taiwan emergency is a Japanese emergency, and therefore an emergency for the Japan–U.S. alliance.” Australia should adopt the same stance now, according to a Taiwanese expert.
Dr. David Yeau-Tarn Lee called on Australia to play a stronger role in combating the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in his speech “Democratization and Peace in the Taiwan Strait” at the Culture Centre of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Sydney on Sept. 23.
Lee is an adjunct professor at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies of National Chengchi University (NCCU). He served as the vice president of NCCU’s Academy of Social Sciences and the director of Taiwan’s Graduate Institute of National Development. His research topics include political thought, democracy, liberalism, democratization, human rights, and ecologism….