ABSTRACT

Democratization has led a rapidly expanding number of Taiwanese nonprofit and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to take part in transnational activities.1 This phenomenon is studied in Taiwan from the perspective of how NGOs can facilitate the state’s foreign policy of resisting international isolation by China. NGO studies have been commissioned by the government to serve its minjian waijiao (people-to-people diplomacy), a policy of reducing isolation initiated by the Kuomintang (KMT) government and strengthened by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).