Written by Chia-Yuan Huang.
Image credit: 辜振甫先生紀念圖書館 by Wei-Te Wong/ Flickr, license: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe in 2020, students from mainland China had long been the largest source of international students for higher education institutions in Taiwan. However, significant changes occurred as a result of border controls during the pandemic. Since 2020, Taiwan’s higher education system has faced continuous impacts from the pandemic, leading to a dramatic decline in the number of international student entries. As the pandemic gradually eased and former President Tsai Ing-wen actively promoted the New Southbound Policy…