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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Maëlle Lefèvre est diplômée d’un master de sécurité internationale avec une spécialisation Asie de l’Est, à l’école d’affaires internationales de SciencesPo Paris (PSIA). Elle est également diplômée de langue chinoise à l’INALCO. Lors d’un programme d’échange d’un an, elle a étudié à l’université nationale de Taiwan (NTU) à Taipei. Elle a également travaillé à Taiwan dans le cadre d’un stage de six mois et suivi un programme de chinois intensif à l’université nationale normale de Taïwan (NTNU) dans le cadre d’une bourse du ministère de l’éducation taïwanais.
Ses travaux de recherche portent, entre autres, sur la région Indo-Pacifique, la Grande Chine, et plus particulièrement les relations entre la Chine et Taiwan.
Maëlle Lefèvre est également l’auteure de Jiazoku, roman paru en 2019 aux éditions Albin Michel, et traitant du trafic de mères porteuses chinoises au Japon mis en place par les Yakuzas.
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 which its geopolitical consequences and caused a strengthening of existing antagonisms. Maëlle Lefèvre’s paper will focus on the link between Taiwan and the formulation of Indo-Pacific strategies, and try and understand the current situation.
As Ukraine faces the Russian invasion, all eyes are on Mainland China and the decisions it might make regarding the delicate issue of Taiwan. But to make such assumptions, a
Jean-François Di Meglio, President of Asia Centre, and Maëlle Lefèvre, researcher at Asia Centre (Translation: Hadrien Saperstein) Taiwan, an island of twenty-three million inhabitants, is a de facto independent country
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