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Abstract 

This is an exploratory study of the new dataset with a quantitative analysis of the spatio-temporal patterns of Taiwanese Direct Investment in China from 1991 to 2014. What spatial and temporal patterns of foreign direct investment (FDI) would a small country have towards a rising great power, while they are politically adversarial to but economically interdependent with each other? We introduce a prototype database project of TDI China, which covers Taiwanese direct investment (TDI) to China since 1991 to 2014 and geo-referenced with the precision to the street level. 

With TDI China, preliminarily discover analyze and visualize patterns of geographical distribution of TDI within the temporal context of different political and policy interactions between Taiwan and China. A variety of statistics and techniques in quantitative political geography are used for our analysis. Following that introduces the use of geographic information system (GIS) to produce and analyze the patterns in the data. Findings are mapped and visualized with GIS and other software and tools.

To enrich the literature of FDI and politics, and complete the database to identify more variables as well as generate more interesting hypotheses regarding how politics influences the selection of FDI location in our second phase of study.

About the Speakers

Roger Liu is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Security Studies at the Jindal School of International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University. His research interests include scientific studies of International Relations, political geography, war and conflict and India’s politics and foreign relations. Professor Liu earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of South Carolina, USA. Professor Liu is currently also a Research Fellow with the Center for Globalization and Peace Research, Soochow University, Taiwan and a Research Fellow with the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, ROC (CSCAP Taiwan) and the Center of Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) of National Chengchi University.

Chen-Yuan Tung is senior advisor at the National Security Council (Taiwan), and distinguished professor of the Graduate Institute of Development Studies, National Chengchi University (Taiwan). He received his Ph.D. degree majoring in international affairs from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. From September 2006 to May 2008, he was Vice Chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council, Executive Yuan, Republic of China (Taiwan). In 2008, he was awarded the Excellent Young Scholarship, National Science Council, Executive Yuan; in 2012, he was awarded the Award for Special Outstanding Research, National Chengchi University. His expertise focuses on international political economy, Chinese economic development, and prediction markets.