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Prof. Yao-Yuan Yeh (葉耀元教授)

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Prof. Yao-Yuan Yeh (葉耀元教授)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Prof. Yao-Yuan Yeh
  • Chinese: 葉耀元教授
  • Era: —
  • Geography: Taiwan
  • Core roles: professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Education

  • National Taiwan Univ. — 2008 — B.A., Political Science
  • Texas A&M Univ. — 2014 — Ph.D., Political Science

Employment

  • Univ. of California, Merced — Lecturer of Political Science — (2014-2016) — Univ. of St. Thomas — Visiting Assistant Professor — (2016-2017) — Univ. of St. Thomas — Assistant Professor — (2017-)

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Role in the Community

  • A recurring voice in the community’s press on China’s lawfare and the cross-strait order (RFA/VOA interviews reprinted by 台灣正义網絡): UN Resolution 2758 legal warfare and CCP pressure cycles (TAJPNet 2025-04), BRICS expansion vs the G7 (TAJPNet 2025-05), and why US dual recognition of Taiwan is implausible without a US–China break (TAJPNet 2025-06)

  • By 2023–2025 the community press identifies him as University of St. Thomas 國際研究講座教授兼系主任 (endowed chair and department chair) — a later rank than the TAH profile’s Assistant Professor (2017–); both retained, no auto-merge — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-2145-yao-yuan-yeh|TAH #2145]]

  • Quoted challenging Taiwan’s own debate: “中國想併吞台灣，美國想犧牲台灣？我只看到台灣一堆人想犧牲台灣的主權與民主” — TAJPNet 2023-05

  • Also a recurring commentator on domestic Taiwanese politics in the community press: offered a two-reading critique of 柯文哲’s “我從頭到尾沒有變” claim (柯說謊 vs 柯展現真面目), calling 柯文哲 the “始作俑者” of 「大柯學家」 — TAJPNet 2025-08

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-22: hits limited to the TAJPNet opinion/interview reprints above plus the corpus index; no memoir material on this person; no date/age conflicts to hold.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-23 (slice 09221200-10): re-verified saturated — same hits (#2145 own record + the four TAJPNet reprints already wikilinked above); no new community facts to absorb, no conflicts to hold.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-24 (slice 09230600-22): same hit set (own record + index + the four TAJPNet reprints already wikilinked) — saturated; nothing absorbable, no conflicts.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09240600-29): fresh ZH+EN grep 葉耀元/Yao-Yuan Yeh returned the same hit set (own record #2145 + index + the four TAJPNet reprints already wikilinked above) — saturated; nothing absorbable, no conflicts.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-26 (slice 09250900-27): fresh ZH+EN grep returned the identical hit set (own record whos-who-2145 + works index only in content/works; article hits all already wikilinked) — verified-saturated SKIP; no new memoir material, no conflicts.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-26 (slice 09260400-19): one new hit — a 2022-08-15 TAJPNet reprint TAJPNet 2022-07 carrying his 柯文哲 two-explanations quote (the same quote already wikilinked under a 2023-05 reprint; that page dates the remark 2023-03-23 vs this reprint’s 2022-07-26 context — HOLD: publication-date mismatch, same quote, no auto-merge). Otherwise saturated.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-10 (slice 10081300-9): fresh ZH+EN+surname grep 葉耀元/Yao-Yuan Yeh/耀元 across all 5 corpus dirs returned the identical hit set — own record whos-who-2145 + works index + sources page + the ten TAJPNet reprints already wikilinked above; the 耀元 hits (whoswho1338 張耀元/Adam Chang, 朱耀源 publications) are different persons, correctly excluded. Verified-saturated SKIP; no new memoir material, no conflicts.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-11 (slice 10100900-28): fresh ZH+EN+surname grep 葉耀元/Yao-Yuan Yeh/耀元 across all 5 corpus dirs returned the identical hit set — own record whos-who-2145 + works index + sources page + the ten TAJPNet reprints already wikilinked above; whoswho1338 (張耀元) is a different person, correctly excluded. Verified-saturated SKIP; no new memoir material, no conflicts.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-12 (slice 10110600-29): fresh ZH+EN+surname grep 葉耀元/Yao-Yuan Yeh/耀元 across all 5 corpus dirs returned the identical hit set (own record whos-who-2145 + works index + sources page + the ten TAJPNet reprints already wikilinked above). One apparent new hit — ourjourneys233-eng — is a regex false positive (“Yao-ming Huang”, a TCC building volunteer, matched via Yeh.*Yao), a different person, correctly excluded. Verified-saturated SKIP; no new memoir material, no conflicts.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-13 (slice 10120900-14): fresh ZH+EN+surname grep 葉耀元/Yao-Yuan Yeh/耀元 across all 5 corpus dirs returned 14 files — own record whos-who-2145 + works index + sources page + the ten TAJPNet reprints already wikilinked above; whoswho1338 (Adam Chang 張耀元) is a different person, correctly excluded. Verified-saturated SKIP; no new memoir material, no conflicts.

  • 2022–2025 TAJPNet reprint corpus adds five further on-record reprints of his commentary, all now wikilinked: (a) Biden’s fourth “strategic ambiguity” remark (CBS 60 Minutes interview, 2022-09) — his FB analysis that Biden’s words were a policy shift, not gaffes, and that Beijing faced either striking Taiwan or severing ties with Washington, 「熱水燙青蛙」 not 「溫水煮青蛙」 — 12; (b) the US State Department China policy-page update (2022-05) — his reading that the new version differed 「天差地別」 from the 2018-08-31 text, a fundamental shift in the US position on Taiwan’s sovereignty/「保護」 language, 「美方不再對中共和平統一抱持任何期望」 — TAJPNet 2022-05; (c) the 柯文哲 「共機擾台」 exchange — his FB post on the 「天龍國集體發癲」 debate over whether PLA aircraft crossing the median line are harassment, contrasting that with US deterrence logic in the印太 — [[articles/taiwanjustice-net/2022/20220815033933_2022_07_18_柯_共機擾台為何不打下來_天龍國集體發癲_-f8d3182394a7449f|TAJPNet 2022-07/08]]; (d) his 柯文哲 「我從頭到尾沒有變」 two-reading critique (柯說謊 vs 柯展現真面目), an earlier reprint of the same quote already cited under the 2023-05 reprint — [[articles/taiwanjustice-net/2022/20220815034558_2022_07_26_陳時中_不怒而威_vs-柯文哲_怒而不威-陳昭_a2f47526334b0189|TAJPNet 2022-07/08]]; (e) his 2022-05 analysis cited in the 鄭達志醫師 murder piece, classifying the Las Vegas shooting as the first mass hate crime motivated by cross-strait political factors (統促-type organisations as candidate FBI terror-watch targets, and the 「華人」 frame splitting in US domestic politics) — 07 (his title there: 美國聖湯瑪斯大學國際研究系主任).

Sources

From the record

  • 2026-09-23 (reported) — On Facebook (《自由時報》 0923, carried by 美洲台灣日報 (Taiwan Daily)): on the high-profile US welcome for 習近平, he writes that lavish protocol between competitors is normal — 習近平 needs it for domestic propaganda, 川普 needs the summit to divert from the Iran conflict — and no constructive outcome is possible because China’s national interest is replacing US hegemony while America’s is preserving it; the rest is ‘看他們演戲’ — 美洲台灣日報
  • 2026-09-26 (reported) — On his Facebook page 葉教授的國際事務學院 (《自由時報》 0926, carried by 美洲台灣日報 (Taiwan Daily)): rejecting the ‘bad staffers’ defence of 蔣萬安’s ‘問A答B’ record — a politician without improvisation or the ability to answer media and crowds himself is simply incompetent; ‘蔣萬安最大的問題就是他自己本人’ — 美洲台灣日報

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