Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) co-authored the article, "Undercurrent in Taiwan: Nationalism and Calculation of the Cross-Strait Relations (2002–2022)," in Public Opinion Quarterly. In this article, Wang and others analyzed 14 waves of survey (n = 16494) from 2002 to 2022 trying to explain a big research question: Why did Taiwanese identity grow considerably while their cross-strait preferences remain the same? This article shows that conditional preferences - people's preference after accounting for their perception of military strength between US, China, and Taiwan - is the key to reconcile the two seemingly contradictory trends in public opinion in Taiwan in te past 20 years.