Taiwan Salon, Season 4, Episode 1: Caroline Fried and Siwei Huang on Nonpartisanship and Taiwan-Based Think Tanks

About this episode

The episode discusses the work of CAPRI and the significance of nonpartisanship in policy research.

In this episode of Taiwan Salon , host and GTI Program Manager Adrienne Wu interviews Director of Research Caroline Fried and Director of Engagement Siwei Huang from the Center for Asia Pacific Resilience and Innovation (CAPRI). For our season four premiere we speak with Caroline and Siwei about CAPRI’s work, the importance of being nonpartisan when doing policy research, and the challenges and opportunities of being a Taiwan-based think tank.

People in this episode

Host: Adrienne Wu

Guests: Caroline Fried, Siwei Huang

Topics covered

• nonpartisanship
• Taiwan-based think tanks
• policy research
• challenges and opportunities
• CAPRI

Keywords

• Taiwan
• think tanks
• nonpartisanship
• policy research
• CAPRI

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Center for Asia Pacific Resilience and Innovation

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