In his senior thesis, Kawamoto addresses the research question: What does the Taiwanese public want out of the recent U.S.-Taiwan relationship? Taiwan, or the Republic of China (ROC), has been a longstanding key partner of the United States since the end of WWII despite the U.S. decision to switch its official recognition of China from the ROC to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the 1970s. Besides, the U.S. government has increased its engagement with Taiwan in recent years amidst the intensifying U.S.-China bipolarity as well as the worldwide shortages of semiconductors, whose major manufacturers are concentrated in Taiwan. While this deepening of the U.S.-Taiwan relationship seems beneficial for the future development of the two societies, there is a growing skepticism among Taiwanese citizens toward the United States (“疑美論” in Mandarin). Surprisingly, there are few scholarly works that explore Taiwanese public opinion on the recent U.S.-Taiwan relationship in-depth. Therefore, Kawamoto developed two self-designed research projects measuring Taiwanese public opinion to better understand Taiwanese skepticism toward the United States while also filling a gap in scholarship that pays scant attention to the voice of the Taiwanese people.