Kharis Templeman

Kharis Templeman is advisor to the Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and PeaceHe is coeditor (with Yun-han Chu and Larry Diamondof Taiwan’s Democracy Challenged: The Chen Shui-bian Years (2016).

July 2020, Volume 31, Issue 3

How Taiwan Stands Up to China

No country in the world is more intensely targeted by Beijing’s influence operations than Taiwan. The lead-up to the January 2020 elections saw China putting a full-court press on the island, but Taiwanese democracy broke it.