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Xavier L.W. Liao
Xavier Li-Wen Liao is a PhD Candidate of the Ghent Institute for International Studies (GIIS), University of Ghent, Belgium. His PhD research is related to global astropolitics and global space governance regarding the issues of security and defense, human safety, space economy for development, and the sustainable uses of outer space. He had extensive interests as well in other research fields, such as Chinese official discourse analysis, ethnic politics in Taiwan and Chinese films study. He published his MA thesis ‘A case study on China’s (re-)securitization discourse along the institutionalization of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)’ as one of the chapters in The Role of Discourse as the Interface between various Disciplines studying Chinese Society, (2012) (Eds.) L. Lams & X. Liao, published by the Belgian Royal Academies for Science and the Arts (KVAB). He is the coauthor of the article ‘Tracing Taiwanization processes in the Taiwanese presidential statements in times of cross-Strait rapprochement’ with L. Lams in the Journal of Chinese Current Affairs, 2011(1): 63–98. He majored in French language and literature in Taiwan and graduated from the film school ‘Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD)’, Belgium. He obtained his BA degree on political science from Belgian Facultés Universitaires Saint Louis (FUSL) in Brussels, and his MA degree on political science from Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).