A recent survey released by the National Science and Technology Council, known as the Taiwan Election and Democratization Study (TEDS), found that public support for democratic ins......
For the first time in a decade, the leaders of the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party are set to meet face to face. The world has changed dramatically since their last summ......
The sudden death of a senior trade official has reopened damaging questions about Taiwan's bid to join a major regional trade bloc. The controversy centers on whether the governmen......
The indictment of mainland-born spouse Xu Chunying has reignited debate about Chinese infiltration of Taiwan's political parties. But the real casualty may not be the Taiwan People......
Nearly one month into the U.S.-Iran war, what began with promises of a swift American victory and unconditional Iranian surrender has evolved into an open-ended conflict with no re......
As U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran ignite a broader Middle East conflict and the threat of a closure of the Strait of Hormuz looms over global energy markets, Taiwan is already fe......
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) has sent a clear signal that the country may soon restart its idled nuclear power plants.While whether that commitment holds remains to be se......
When Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) floated the idea of restarting the island's second and third nuclear power plants — with regulatory submissions to the Nuclear Safety Com......
When Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) addressed Taiwan's legislature this week on nuclear energy and power policy, many observers took his remarks as a signal that the government is prep......
Taiwan's demographic crisis reached a grim new milestone in February as monthly births fell below 7,000 for the first time on record, signaling an unprecedented acceleration in the......
When Taiwan People's Party (TPP) Legislator Li Chen-hsiu (李貞秀) — a mainland-born spouse recently elected to the legislature — took to the floor for her first official interpellatio......
Taiwan's Minister of Economic Affairs, Kung Ming-hsin (龔明鑫), recently asserted that three bilateral economic "pillars" with the United States will allow Taiwan's semiconductor indu......
Lai Ching-te's Historical Blind Spot Undermines His Own Democratic Narrative
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) has a recurring problem with public remarks — and his latest sli......
The Strait of Hormuz is currently hotter than the Taiwan Strait. As Iran aggressively mines the vital waterway and chokes off oil tanker traffic, U.S. forces are massing in the P......
In Stephen Chow's classic comedy film Hail the Judge, one of the most memorable gags involves a character trying to use a "Ming Dynasty sword to execute Qing Dynasty officials"—a s......
There is a popular saying about "forgetting the pain once the wound heals." It aptly describes the goldfish-like memory of policymakers who fail to learn from past mistakes. The La......
Taiwan's team was eliminated from the World Baseball Classic preliminaries. That should have been the story. Instead, Premier Cho Jung-tai's (卓榮泰) brief trip to Tokyo to watch the ......
One of the most consequential takeaways from China’s annual Two Sessions this year was not a headline-grabbing diplomatic clash or a short-term growth target. It was the launch of ......
Chinese Premier Li Qiang's (李強) work report at the Two Sessions conveyed economic messages that drew global attention, particularly the lowered economic growth target. While most o......
Taiwan's electricity demand is projected to grow at 2.5 times its historical average over the next five years, driven by the global artificial intelligence boom and the island's en......