Crafting the Taiwan model for COVID-19 : an exceptional state in pandemic territory
Taiwan was the first country to anticipate the threat of COVID-19, to send a medical team to investigate the initial outbreak in China, and to implement a comprehensive and successful public health response that avoided repeated infections or catastrophic lockdowns. Counter-intuitively, Taiwan’s suc...
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| description | Taiwan was the first country to anticipate the threat of COVID-19, to send a medical team to investigate the initial outbreak in China, and to implement a comprehensive and successful public health response that avoided repeated infections or catastrophic lockdowns. Counter-intuitively, Taiwan’s success was achieved in part due to its exclusion from international bodies such as the World Health Organization, which led it to adopt a highly vigilant approach to health threats, especially those that emerge in China, whose irredentist claims impinge on Taiwan’s participation in the international community and constitute an existential military threat. Taiwan’s response to COVID-19 was recast by its diplomatic representatives into “The Taiwan Model”, a formulation used to pursue increased international recognition and participation. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1449382023-03-05T15:30:53Z Crafting the Taiwan model for COVID-19 : an exceptional state in pandemic territory Rowen, Ian School of Social Sciences Social sciences COVID-19 Taiwan Taiwan was the first country to anticipate the threat of COVID-19, to send a medical team to investigate the initial outbreak in China, and to implement a comprehensive and successful public health response that avoided repeated infections or catastrophic lockdowns. Counter-intuitively, Taiwan’s success was achieved in part due to its exclusion from international bodies such as the World Health Organization, which led it to adopt a highly vigilant approach to health threats, especially those that emerge in China, whose irredentist claims impinge on Taiwan’s participation in the international community and constitute an existential military threat. Taiwan’s response to COVID-19 was recast by its diplomatic representatives into “The Taiwan Model”, a formulation used to pursue increased international recognition and participation. Published version 2020-12-04T02:02:32Z 2020-12-04T02:02:32Z 2020 Journal Article Rowen, I. (2020). Crafting the Taiwan model for COVID-19 : an exceptional state in pandemic territory. Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 18(14). 1557-4660 https://apjjf.org/2020/14/Rowen.html https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144938 14 18 en Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus © 2020 The Author(s) (published by Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Social sciences COVID-19 Taiwan Rowen, Ian Crafting the Taiwan model for COVID-19 : an exceptional state in pandemic territory |
| title | Crafting the Taiwan model for COVID-19 : an exceptional state in pandemic territory |
| title_full | Crafting the Taiwan model for COVID-19 : an exceptional state in pandemic territory |
| title_fullStr | Crafting the Taiwan model for COVID-19 : an exceptional state in pandemic territory |
| title_full_unstemmed | Crafting the Taiwan model for COVID-19 : an exceptional state in pandemic territory |
| title_short | Crafting the Taiwan model for COVID-19 : an exceptional state in pandemic territory |
| title_sort | crafting the taiwan model for covid 19 an exceptional state in pandemic territory |
| topic | Social sciences COVID-19 Taiwan |
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