U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed at Taipei Songshan Airport on the evening of August 2, and led her congressional delegation to visit Taiwan and made public itineraries on August 3, attracting the attention of the international community. In response to Pelosi's Taiwan visit, aside from announcing to stop importing many products from Taiwan, China also held live-fire drills in six sea and airspaces around Taiwan for three consecutive days starting August 4, aggravating the already intense situation in the Taiwan Strait.
With the Russian-Ukrainian war that began in early 2022, and now the recent Taiwan Strait crisis, it is obvious to see that China is bound to use new means in dealing with U.S.-Taiwan-China relations and geopolitics. This symposium will explore and discuss Taiwanese society’s reaction to Pelosi’s Taiwan visit and China’s military exercises, Taiwanese political parties’ response on U.S. foreign policy, and the implications of this incident for Taiwan’s democracy and the free world.