New Southbound Policy
E383922
The New Southbound Policy is Taiwan’s strategic initiative to deepen economic, cultural, and people-to-people ties with Southeast Asia, South Asia, Australia, and New Zealand as a way to diversify away from overreliance on China.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3739257 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New Southbound Policy Context triple: [Tsai Ing-wen, policyFocus, New Southbound Policy]
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Nakasone Doctrine
The Nakasone Doctrine is a Japanese foreign and security policy framework under Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone that emphasized a stronger U.S.-Japan alliance, greater international role for Japan, and a more assertive defense posture within constitutional limits.
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Nixon Doctrine
The Nixon Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy strategy announced in 1969 that emphasized supporting allies with aid and arms rather than committing large numbers of American ground troops, particularly in Asia.
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Powell Doctrine
The Powell Doctrine is a U.S. military strategy principle advocating the use of overwhelming force, clear objectives, and strong public and international support before engaging in military action.
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Hallstein Doctrine
The Hallstein Doctrine was a Cold War-era West German foreign policy that refused diplomatic relations with any country (except the USSR) that recognized East Germany as a sovereign state.
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United States Indo-Pacific strategy
The United States Indo-Pacific strategy is a comprehensive foreign and security policy framework aimed at promoting a free, open, and rules-based regional order, strengthening alliances, and balancing China’s influence across the broader Indo-Pacific region.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New Southbound Policy Target entity description: The New Southbound Policy is Taiwan’s strategic initiative to deepen economic, cultural, and people-to-people ties with Southeast Asia, South Asia, Australia, and New Zealand as a way to diversify away from overreliance on China.
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Nakasone Doctrine
The Nakasone Doctrine is a Japanese foreign and security policy framework under Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone that emphasized a stronger U.S.-Japan alliance, greater international role for Japan, and a more assertive defense posture within constitutional limits.
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B.
Nixon Doctrine
The Nixon Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy strategy announced in 1969 that emphasized supporting allies with aid and arms rather than committing large numbers of American ground troops, particularly in Asia.
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C.
Powell Doctrine
The Powell Doctrine is a U.S. military strategy principle advocating the use of overwhelming force, clear objectives, and strong public and international support before engaging in military action.
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D.
Hallstein Doctrine
The Hallstein Doctrine was a Cold War-era West German foreign policy that refused diplomatic relations with any country (except the USSR) that recognized East Germany as a sovereign state.
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United States Indo-Pacific strategy
The United States Indo-Pacific strategy is a comprehensive foreign and security policy framework aimed at promoting a free, open, and rules-based regional order, strengthening alliances, and balancing China’s influence across the broader Indo-Pacific region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
diplomatic strategy
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economic strategy ⓘ foreign policy initiative ⓘ |
| abbreviation | NSP ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
attract students from New Southbound countries to study in Taiwan
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build resilient regional supply chains ⓘ encourage Taiwanese enterprises to invest in New Southbound countries ⓘ enhance agricultural technology collaboration ⓘ promote two-way tourism between Taiwan and New Southbound countries ⓘ strengthen medical and public health cooperation with partner countries ⓘ |
| announcedBy | Tsai Ing-wen ⓘ |
| ChineseName | 新南向政策 ⓘ |
| coordinatedBy | Office of Trade Negotiations, Executive Yuan ⓘ |
| country |
Taiwan, Province of China
ⓘ
surface form:
Taiwan
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| focusRegion |
Australia
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New Zealand ⓘ South Asia ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| goal |
deepen regional integration with South and Southeast Asia
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diversify Taiwan’s external economic relations ⓘ reduce overreliance on economic ties with China ⓘ |
| hasComponentProgram |
New Southbound Policy
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
New Southbound Policy Agricultural Cooperation Program
New Southbound Policy self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
New Southbound Policy Medical Cooperation and Industrial Supply Chain Development Program
New Southbound Policy self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
New Southbound Policy Tourism Promotion Plan
New Southbound Talent Development Program ⓘ |
| implementedBy |
Executive Yuan
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surface form:
Executive Yuan of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
|
| inception | 2016 ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Chinese ⓘ |
| launchedBy |
Tsai Ing-wen
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surface form:
Tsai Ing-wen administration
|
| legalBasis | Executive Yuan policy guidelines ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | Mandarin Chinese ⓘ |
| pillar |
economic and trade cooperation
ⓘ
regional connectivity ⓘ resource sharing ⓘ talent exchange ⓘ |
| policyArea |
agriculture
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culture ⓘ education ⓘ investment ⓘ people-to-people exchanges ⓘ public health ⓘ technology cooperation ⓘ tourism ⓘ trade ⓘ |
| politicalContext | response to cross-Strait economic dependence ⓘ |
| predecessor |
New Southbound Policy
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Go South Policy
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| relatedConcept |
Taiwan’s diversification of trade partners
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Taiwan’s southbound strategy ⓘ |
| targetEntity | Association of Southeast Asian Nations ⓘ |
| website | https://nspp.mofa.gov.tw ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: New Southbound Policy Description of subject: The New Southbound Policy is Taiwan’s strategic initiative to deepen economic, cultural, and people-to-people ties with Southeast Asia, South Asia, Australia, and New Zealand as a way to diversify away from overreliance on China.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
New Southbound Policy Tourism Promotion Plan
this entity surface form:
New Southbound Policy Medical Cooperation and Industrial Supply Chain Development Program
this entity surface form:
New Southbound Policy Agricultural Cooperation Program
this entity surface form:
Go South Policy