Just an awkward accommodation? A study on the role and function of the Taipei economic and cultural office

• Main Author: Low, Benjamin Quan Hui
• Other Authors: Kei Koga
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::History::Asia::Taiwan; DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science::Political institutions::Asia::China; DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science::International relations; DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science::Political institutions::East Asia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73510
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Due to its diplomatic isolation since being ousted from the United Nations in 1971, the Republic of China (ROC; Taiwan) has to rely mainly on para-diplomacy for its external affairs. Taipei therefore operates close to a hundred unofficial overseas missions to represent it in states which do not r...