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♣ AFP, 2023-11-26: after a Taiwanese director voiced support for the island's independence in an acceptance speech in 2018's Golden Horse Film awards, There were no mainland films in the 2019 nomination list and several Hong Kong movies dropped out that year, while big commercial productions were conspicuously absent at both the 2020 and 2021 awards. ♣ Variety, 2023-11-26: After Chinese industry to boycott Golden Horse, parts of the Hong Kong industry have stayed away too. Many Hong Kong film folks find themselves torn between the developing political and financial realities back home and Taiwan's indie-spirited film industry. Tsai's government has unveiled a succession of policies seemingly designed to use culture and entertainment to give the island territory a larger profile on the world stage. It remains to be seen if more of the TAICCA-seeded projects come to fruition. And if Taiwan's film and TV companies are willing and able to fill the gap in the market created by Hong Kong's production slowdown and by mainland Chinese entertainment's inward turn of the past five years... brief msn.com/en-us/news/other/taiwan-drifts-towards-cultural-power-as-golden-horse-film-awards-cap-month-of-industry-activity/ar-AA1kvpBA ♣ Reuters (Filed: December 24, 2021, 8 a.m. GMT reuters.com/investigates/special-report/taiwan-china-tsai/ ): Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen is wielding a mixture of soft and hard power as she seeks to fend off a more assertive China under President Xi Jinping. "Diplomatically, politically, and in the Sino-U.S. relationship, the two sides are at war", Senior KMT lawmaker Johnny Chiang says to Reuters,“This has not benefited Taiwan.” ♣ Taiwanese movies ranking:
♣ abc news (Australia), 2022-9-8: Amid China's military and diplomatic isolation, Taiwan turns to films and games to reconnect with the world. Taiwan was still "in its early days" of building soft power. While Taiwan's government had been aware of investing in soft power for a long time, there was a lack of coordinated strategy between different ministerial departments. "The DPP did put more of a focus on things like multiculturalism and democracy, whereas the KMT focuses a little bit more on the Chinese base to Taiwanese culture" ; In 2020, Taiwan reported $44.7 billion in revenue from its creative industry, with a 9.83 per cent increase in overseas sales on the previous year. msn.com/en-au/news/australia/amid-chinas-military-and-diplomatic-isolation-taiwan-turns-to-films-and-games-to-reconnect-with-the-world/ar-AA11zOGi♣ United Daily (Taiwan 經濟日報), 2022-12-21: Taiwan's film industry has been fettered by politics , prosperity no longer exists.(影視作品受到政治羈絆,榮景已不復存焉)。udn.com/news/story/7338/6853439?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub7338_pulldownmenu_v2 ♣ Asia Nikkei (Japan), 2022-5-30: Taiwan makes soft power grab for Europe's Mandarin learners - Push comes as China's Confucius Institutes face global headwinds. asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Taiwan-makes-soft-power-grab-for-Europe-s-Mandarin-learners
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Leading local media executives want to turn Taiwan into a film and
TV powerhouse like South Korea to boost the country's soft power
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Taiwan's soft power vs. Asia's soft power
Generally
speaking, Taiwan's soft power is behind Asian's "world top 20" nations
, including Japan, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand,
China, India, UAE.
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Soft Power
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According to a survey of 2020,
Singapore ranks No.1, Japan No.7, Korea
No. 9 on "enterprise", Japan ranks
No. 5, China No.10 on "engagement",
Korea ranks No. 5 on "digital", Japan
ranks No.6, China No. 8 on "culture", No
any Asian country ranks top 10 on
"education" and "govt."
★ Best Countries overall in 2020: 1 Swiss 2 Canada 3
Japan 4 Germany 5 Australia 6 UK 7 USA 8 Sweden
9 Nederland 10 Norway 11 NZ 12 France 13 Denmark 14
Finland 15 China 16 Singapore 17 Italy 18 Austria 19 Spain
20 Korea 21 Luxembourg 22 UAE 23 Russia 24 Portugal
25 India 26 Thailand 27 Greece 28 Brazil 29 Israel 30 Qatar
31 Saudi Arabia 32 Malaysia 33 Mexico 34 Poland 35 Turkey
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1 | France | 16 | Austria |
2 | UK | 17 | New Zealand |
3 | Germany | 18 | Belgium |
4 | Sweden | 19 | Korea |
5 | USA | 20 | Ireland |
6 | Swiss | 21 | Singapore |
7 | Canada | 22 | Portugal |
8 | Japan | 23 | Poland |
9 | Australia | 24 | Czech |
10 | Nederland | 25 | Greece |
11 | Italia | 26 Brazil | |
12 | Norway | 27 China | |
13 | Spain | 28 Hungary | |
14 | Denmark | 29 Turkey | |
15 | Finland | 30 Russia |
In 2010, Dr. Joseph Nye said hard & soft power enable Taiwan to deal with China and expand its international space. (Dec. 8, 2010) In 2010 Annette Lu, former vice-president of the Republic of China (Taiwan), advocated the ROC's use of soft power as a model for the resolution of international conflicts. However, in 2013 a series of food safety scandals in Taiwan has hurt consumer confidence, and now there are worries they could dent the island's economic growth and damage tourism (BBC, 11.19.2013). Food safety issues continue till 2018. USA Country Reports on Human Rights practices, 4-20-2018:●the justice ministry was insufficiently independent and conducted politically motivated investigations of politicians. According to Taiwan's national Chung Cheng university survey 2-23-2016, about 80% Taiwanese don't believe the impartiality of Taiwan's judiciary (prosecutors and judges). At Jan. 29, 2015, Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je in <Foreign Policy> commented Taiwanese democracy: "Does Taiwan have democracy? Real democracy means politics belongs to the people. Taiwanese politics belongs to corporations and is controlled by political parties".
Economist, EIU, THE GLOBAL LIVEABILITY INDEX 2022 Biggest movers down the ranking in the past 12 month Taipei (Taiwan) ranks world No. 53 |
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1 | Wellington | New Zealand | 50 | 85.7 | -46 | -8.0 |
2 | Auckland | New Zealand | 34 | 89.2 | -33 | -6.8 |
3 | Adelaide | Australia | 30 | 90.7 | -27 | -3.3 |
8 | Taipei | Taiwan | 53 | 85.1 | -20 | 1.2 |
Till 2020, Taiwan has not been included in the top ranking list of the world's most livable cities |
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Taiwan's rankings
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EIU's Global Liveability Ranking 2022 | failed top 10 | 1. Vienna 2. Copenhagen 3. Zurich 4. Calgary 5. Vancouver 6. Geneva 7. Frankfurt 8. Toronto 9. Amsterdam 10. Osaka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The World's Best Cities to Live In 2022 | failed top 10 | 1. London, 2. Tokyo, 3. Shanghai, 4. Singapore, 5. Melbourne, 6. Sydney, 7. Paris, 8. Beijing, 9. NY, 10. Amsterdam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The EIU's Global Livability Index Ranking 2021 | failed top 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The World's Best Cities to Live In 2020 | failed top 10 | 1. Tokyo Japan, 3. Singapore, 5. Melbourne Australia, 8 Seoul Korea, 10. Sydney Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Monocle's Quality of Life survey 2021 | 9 Taipei | 1. Denmark, 2. Swiss, 3. Helsinki, Finland, 4. Stockholm Sweden, 5. Tokyo, Japan, 6. Vienna 7 Lisbon, 8. Auckland, 9 Taipei, 10. Sydney | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The EIU's Global Livability Index Ranking 2019 | failed in the top 50 | No.2 Melbourne, No.3 Sydney, No.4 Osaka (Japan), No. 7 Tokyo, No.10 Adelaide, No.12 Auckland (NZ), No.15 Wellington (NZ), 18 Brisbane (Aus) , No. 38 Hong Kong, No. 40 Singapore, No.57 Seoul (Korea), Taipei behind | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Monocle's Quality of Life survey 2019 |
failed in the top list https://monocle.com/film/affairs/quality-of-life-survey-top-25-cities-2019/ |
No.2 Tokyo (Japan), No.11 Melbourne (Australia), No.13 Sydney, No.16 Hong Kong, No.17 Kyoto (Japan), No.21 Auckland (NZ), No.22 Fukuoka (Japan), 23 Brisbane 25 Singapore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deutsche Bank Liveability Survey |
not included in the top list https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/RPS_EN-PROD/PROD0000000000494405/Mapping_the_world%27s_prices_2019.pdf |
No. 2 Wellington (NZ), No. 7 Melbourne ( Australia ), No.10 Sydney, No.14 Tokyo No.16 Auckland (NZ), No.17 Dubai (UAE), No. 23 Singapore, No. 26 Saudi Arabia Riyadh, No. 29 Seoul (Korea), No. 33 India Bangalore, No. 39 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, 44 Hong Kong, 46 India Delhi, No. 48 Shanghai (China), No. 55 Beijing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Safe Cities Index (SCI) 2019, EIU (Economist UK), NEC | failed in the top 20 | No.1 Tokyo, No.2 Singapore, No.3 Osaka (Japan), No.5 Sydney (Aus), No. 8 Seoul (Korea), No10 Melbourne, No. 20 Hong Kong | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ArchDaily / The World's Most Livable Cities in 2019 | failed in the top 20 | No. 3. Auckland, New Zealand, 11. Sydney, Australia, No.15. Wellington, New Zealand , No.17. Melbourne, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The EIU's Global Livability Index Ranking 2018 | failed in the top 50 | No.2 Melbourne (Australia), No.3 Osaka (Japan), No. 7 Tokyo (Japan) , No.10 Adelaide (Australia), No.12 Auckland (NZ) Wellington (NZ) ... ... (omitted), Taipei 58 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The EIU's Global Liveability Index Ranking 2017 | failed in the top 50 |
No.1
Melbourne, No. 5
Adelaide, No. 7
Perth,
No. 8 Auckland (NZ), No.11 Sydney, No.13 Tokyo, No. 14 Osaka, No.16 Brisbane, No. 20 Wellington (NZ), No. 35 Singapore, No.45 Hong Kong, No.58 Seoul (Korea), No.60 Taipei |
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US News
& World Report 2021, Asian countries' world influence top
30 rankings |