What is Taiwan and why is it important? A new study shows Australians struggle to answer these questions

What is Taiwan and why is it important? A new study shows Australians struggle to answer these questions

Recently, a new documentary was screened across Australia about the late Taiwanese Australian professor Chwei-Liang Chiou, who dedicated his life to improving relations between Taiwan and Australia. At the Brisbane premiere, former federal MP Graham Perrett opened with a line often attributed to the Soviet writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: “We know they are lying […] they know we know they are lying […] but they still lie.” He said the line capture…