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Maëlle Lefèvre, Strategic Issues China, Taiwan

Maëlle Lefèvre holds a master's degree in international security with a specialization in East Asia from the School of International Affairs at SciencesPo Paris (PSIA). She also holds a degree in Chinese language from INALCO. During a one-year exchange program, she studied at the National Taiwan University (NTU) in Taipei. She also worked in Taiwan for six months as an intern and attended an intensive Chinese language program at the National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) on a scholarship from the Taiwanese Ministry of Education. Her research interests include the Indo-Pacific region, Greater China, and more specifically China-Taiwan relations. Maëlle Lefèvre is also the author of Jiazoku, a novel published in 2019 by Albin Michel, and dealing with the trafficking of Chinese surrogate mothers in Japan set up by the Yakuzas.

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Taiwan cooking oil scandal: Why Isn’t Beijing Adding Fuel to the Fire? • Isabelle Feng

31 July 2026 No Comments

In this new piece, Isabelle Feng looks back at the tainted cooking oil scandal that has affected Taiwan for several weeks, and at Beijing’s measured response to the affair. She examines the protests held in Taipei on 25 July, the coverage of the event by Chinese state media, and reactions observed on Chinese social media. She puts this episode in perspective alongside the history of food safety scandals in mainland China and the question of freedom to protest on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

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Taiwan’s role in the Indo-Pacific: From an Indo-Pacific actor to an Indo-Pacific maker?

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This article by Maëlle Lefèvre focuses on the link between Taiwan and the formulation of Indo-Pacific strategies, and tries to understand the current situation. Taiwan is one of the likeliest flashpoints in the world, even more so since the Covid-19 pandemic and the invasion of Ukraine by Russia have raised geopolitical consequences and caused a strengthening of existing antagonisms.

 

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