WORKING PAPER
Caught in A Rivalry: The Survival Strategy for Buffer States
Social Theory on State Identity Transformation: Cases in the Indo-Pacific Region
Small Power Survival Strategy (with Rafal Wisniweski)
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yu-Hua Chen, 2023, “Is Japan Reviving Its Defense Industry?,” New Society for Taiwan, Vol. 87, pp. 14–21.
Yu-Hua Chen, 2023, "Lips and Teeth: China’s Buffer Thinking Toward North Korea," Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 33 (14), pp. 839-849. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2023.2200396
Yu-Hua Chen & Hsin-Yu Lin, 2023, “Housing Justice and Injustice in Japan,” New Society for Taiwan, Vol. 84, pp. 11-17.
Yu-Hua Chen, 2023, “Japan's Taiwan Policy in the Xi Jinping Era: "Moving toward Strategic Clarity,” Strategic Review, Issue 15, pp. 299-311. https://doi.org/10.14746/ps.2022.1.18
Yu-Hua Chen, 2022, “Global War on Inflation: Japan Is Doing the Opposite,” New Society for Taiwan, Vol. 81, pp. 10–15.
Yu-Hua Chen, 2022, “China's Buffer Thinking toward Taiwan,” International Journal of Taiwan Studies, Vol. 6, Issue 2, pp. 345-367. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/24688800-20221268
Yu-Hua Chen, 2021, "A US-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement? Learning from Japan," New Society for Taiwan, Vol. 75, pp. 31–35.
Yu-Hua Chen, 2021, “China’s Two Centennial Goals and the Waning of the Abandoning Taiwan Arguments,” Eurasian Studies Quarterly, No. 16, pp. 41–48.
Yu-Hua Chen, 2019, “Counter China’s Influence: Australia’s Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Act,” New Society for Taiwan, Vol. 65, pp. 6–10.
Yu-Hua Chen, 2018, “Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy and Australia’s Great China Debate,” New Society for Taiwan, Vol. 62, pp. 28–32.
Yu-Hua Chen, 2017, “Power and Influence: Chinese Influence on Australia’s Politics and Academia,” New Society for Taiwan, Vol. 52, pp. 76–79.
Yu-Hua Chen, 2016, “The Concept You Have about the CCP’s Sovereignty Discourse on Taiwan Might Be All Wrong,” New Society for Taiwan, Vol. 47, pp. 71–72.
Yu-Hua Chen, 2016, “Why Beijing Needs to Work with Tsai Ing-wen,” New Society for Taiwan, Vol. 43, pp. 86–87.
BOOK CHAPTER
Yu-Hua Chen, Buffer Thinking in Chinese Foreign and Security Policy: The Reasoning behind China’s Policies toward North Korea, Taiwan, and Mongolia, Routledge. (Forthcoming 2025)
BOOK CHAPTER
Yu-Hua Chen, 2025, “The Momentum of Taiwan-India Relations in the Era of US-China Competition,” Debasish Nandy and Monojit Das eds., in Decoding the Chessboard of Asian Geopolitics: Asian Powerplay in East and Southeast Asia, The Global North, and Other Emerging Issues, Palgrave Macmillan. (ISBN: 978-9819630721)
Yu-Hua Chen, 2023, “Identity Politics and International Relations in Australia,” Chia-hung Tsai and Yao-Yuan Yeh eds., in Public Opinion, Policy Response, and Party Politics under the COVID-19 Pandemic, Maryland: Lexington Books.
Yu-Hua Chen, 2022, “Will China Invade Taiwan? What Is the Rational Choice in the Eyes of Chinese Leaders,” in Who Governs, New Taipei City: Rive Gauche Publishing House.
Yu-Hua Chen, 2013, “Geopolitics of Japan: A Dialogue with David Kang,” in Japan’s National Security, Kaohsiung: the Centre of Japanese Studies.
BOOK REVIEW
Yu-Hua Chen, 2015, “The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower,” Journal of Asian Politics & History, No. 7, Fall, pp.88–90.
Yu-Hua Chen, 2015, “China’s Search for Security,” Journal of Asian Politics & History, No. 6, Spring, pp. 111–13.
CONFERENCE
美國、中國與東亞安全 (the US, China, and East Asian Security), National Taiwan University, Taipei, December 2024.
Yu-Hua Chen, “Is Security of Taiwan Security of Japan?”
Demographic Challenges in East Asia, University of San Francisco, April 2024.
Discussant
Oxford Debate, Asia Society Switzerland, January 23, 2024.
Panelist, Will Diplomatic Engagement Prevent China’s Aggressive Actions Against Taiwan
Beyond Europe, Adam Mickiewicz University, Warsaw, Poland, December 2023
Yu-Hua Chen, “The Implications of Taiwan's 2024 Presidential Election on Regional Security.”
2023 International Studies Association Asia-Pacific, Waseda University, Japan, August 2023.
Rafał Wiśniewski & Yu-Hua Chen, “Small Powers' Security Strategies in the post-Cold War Period: Comparative Study of Poland and Taiwan.”
Discussant, Panel 13: Diverse Theoretical Approaches to Regional Security
Chinas 20th Party Congress Politics and Security Outlook, Institute of National Defense and Security Research, Taiwan, November 2022.
Panelist
64th Annual Conference of the American Association for Chinese Studies, University of Denver, October 2022.
Yu-Hua Chen, “What Should Buffer States Do in a Great Power Competition?”
Panelist, The Ukraine-Russia War and Its Implications on Cross-Strait Relations.
Chair, How to Teach China Studies Today.
Taiwan in International and Regional Relations, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, May 2022.
Yu-Hua Chen, “Today Ukraine, Tomorrow Taiwan:’ Has Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Reduced the Likelihood of China’s War over Taiwan?”
Politics under Pandemic: How COVID-19 Reshapes the Political Landscape in Taiwan and Beyond, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, December 2021.
Yu-Hua Chen, “Balancing, not Hedging: How COVID-19 Transformed Australia’s Identity in the US-China Rivalry.”
Association of International Studies and Regional Development Annual Convention 2021, Niigata Prefecture University & Nanyang Technological University, Japan, December 2021.
Yu-Hua Chen, “Rivalry with Chinese Characteristics: Why Can’t China Secure More Friends?”
British Association for Chinese Studies Annual Conference 2021, University of Birmingham, the UK, September 2021.
Yu-Hua Chen, “Lips and Teeth: China’s Buffer Thinking towards North Korea.”
Chair: Political Trend in the Xi Era.
Taiwan in Regional and Global Dynamics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, July 2021.
Yu-Hua Chen, “The Converging Security Relations between Taiwan and Japan in the Era of Xi Jinping.”
Preview of Taiwan Elections 2020: Anticipating a Democracy in Action, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, the US, December 2019
Panelist
Xi Jinping Cross Strait Private Roundtable, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the US, February 2019.
Panelist
International Studies Association’s 59th Annual Convention, the US, April 2018.
Yu-Hua Chen, “Beyond the Great Wall: China’s Search for Buffers.”