Austin Horng-En Wang

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Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

Expertise: Asia Politics, Taiwan Politics, Taiwan-China-US relationship, Public Opinion and Election

Biography

Austin Horng-En Wang is an expert on voting behavior, East Asian politics, and political psychology. His dissertation examined the relationship between temporal discounting and political participation through survey and experiments in the U.S., Taiwan, and Ukraine. His current research explores the long-term effect of political repression and attitude toward war in East Asia.

Wang’s commentary on Asian politics have appeared in The Washington Post, The National Interest, and Huffington Post, among others. His research has been published in highly respected journals, including Political Research Quarterly, Electoral Studies, Asian Survey, and Social Science Research.

Education

Ph.D., Political Science, Duke University
M.A., Political Science, National Taiwan University
B.S., Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University

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Austin Horng-En Wang In The News

Taiwan’s All-Hands-on-Deck Plan to Fend Off China

Occupational therapist Lim Siong-hua arrives for every workday at her hospital carrying a backpack stuffed with books, water and survival gear. She ditches the elevator, climbing 11 flights before descending to her ninth-floor office. Lim, 37, is training for an invasion. She wants to be prepared and fit enough to get her 3-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son to safety if China starts raining missiles onto Taiwan.

Chinesemaxxing: A scholar who gained popularity in the US, says that young people's quirky antics are not pro-China

Central News Agency

A trend of "Chinamaxing" has swept the Western internet world, with people imitating Chinese lifestyles such as drinking warm water and taking off their shoes when entering a house. Scholar Austin Horng-En Wang pointed out that this trend is more like young people being quirky, rather than the "sudden surge in pro-China sentiment among American youth" that the media is worried about.

Chinese researchers suggest Taiwan should cooperate with the US and Japan to counter China's use of AI to expand cyberattack capabilities

Central News Agency

OpenAI, the developer of the chatbot ChatGPT, released a report indicating that the Chinese government used ChatGPT to generate images and text to launch cyberattacks. Scholar Austin Horng-En Wang pointed out today that the development of artificial intelligence (AI) has made related cyberattacks and cognitive warfare larger in scale and lower in cost.

Chinese Cyber Army Forgets to Delete AI Prompts In Posts Aimed at Taiwan

The Vision Times

Taiwanese researchers and security officials are sounding the alarm after CCP-linked content farms were caught using AI-generated propaganda, while accidentally leaving behind prompts showing the posts were tailored specifically for Taiwanese audiences