Global semiconductor materials revenue hit $73.2 billion in 2025 — a year-on-year increase of 6.8% and a new all-time high — according to the latest Materials Market Data Subscript......
As Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet on Wednesday, May 14, Taiwan's national security establishment is pushing back against what officials describe as a dangerously distorted narrat......
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in Beijing on Wednesday, sitting down for what is expected to be a wide-ranging and high-stakes dialogue on some of......
As President Donald Trump prepares to travel to Beijing for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, he has confirmed at the White House that arms sales to Taiwan will be direct......
Security has been tightened around Tiananmen Square for days. A state banquet is planned, along with a visit to the Temple of Heaven. China, theBBC reports, is ready to put on a sh......
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) successfully visited Eswatini — Taiwan's only remaining diplomatic ally in Africa — despite intense pressure from Beijing that initially blocked......
PLA Military Activity Around Taiwan: Patterns Behind the ExercisesTaiwan's Ministry of National Defense reported at 9:27 a.m. on May 4 that only two People's Liberation Army (PLA) ......
Taiwan — widely regarded as the world's top conflict flashpoint — has seen its defense budget remain stalled in the legislature, even as Japan, the Philippines, and other Indo-Pa......
For decades, Hong Kong has served as one of Asia's most important meeting points for journalists, diplomats, and political actors. At the center of that ecosystem standsthe Foreign......
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) arrived in Eswatini on May 2, days after a planned state visit was disrupted when China pressured several African nations along the presidential......
Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a strongly worded statement Wednesday condemning Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (王毅) for misrepresenting United Nations General Assemb......
How Beijing's Anti-Independence Drive Shapes Cross-Strait TensionsA high-profile meeting between Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping (習近平) and Kuomintang (KMT) Ch......
Taiwan's legislature has yet to reach consensus on the Executive Yuan's proposed 'Special Act for Strengthening Defense Resilience and Asymmetric Combat Capability Procurement' (co......
A privately organized tour group of more than 30 Taiwanese travelers suffered a serious accident on April 24 while visiting the Ganjia Secret Realm scenic area in Xiahe County, Gan......
In the spring of 2016, a Hsiung Feng III (雄風三型) anti-ship missile launched from a Republic of China Navy frigate and struck a fishing vessel off the coast of Penghu. A crew member ......
Jason Hsu (許毓仁) has a talent for arriving early to uncomfortable truths.In 2016, during his first term as a Kuomintang proportional-representation legislator, he co-sponsored a sam......
A Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) destroyer transited the Taiwan Strait on April 17 for the first time in roughly ten months, prompting an immediate diplomatic protest......
The East African island nation of Seychelles formalized a development cooperation agreement with the Chinese Embassy on April 16. The agreement was signed by Foreign and Overseas C......
The newly formed Czech government has refused to authorize a state aircraft for Senate President Milos Vystrcil's planned visit to Taiwan, signaling a foreign policy shift toward B......
Japan's Self-Defense Forces joined Monday's annual U.S.-Philippines Balikatan exercises as full combat participants for the first time, deploying ground, maritime, and air units to......
Taiwan's pineapple sector is holding firm against renewed pressure from Beijing, with official data showing farm-gate prices have risen above pre-ban levels even as China holds out......
The U.S. Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) has released the 2026 Economic Report of the President, which centers on the policy roadmap and projected outcomes of the One Big Beaut......
The logic of globalization was once to maximize efficiency. The logic of competition today is to minimize risk. As supply chains shift from "lowest cost" to "most reliable," the na......
China's government announced on 12 April a package of ten measures aimed at promoting cross-strait exchange and cooperation.
The Presidential Office pushed back, saying Taiwan s......
The term "1992 Consensus" has dominated Taiwan's political discourse for more than three decades. Some describe it as the cornerstone of cross-strait peace; others dismiss it as a ......
Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文), chair of Taiwan's main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT, 中國國民黨), departed for China on April 7 on a six-day trip she has branded the "2026 Peace Journey," ......
The DPP's Taipei mayoral search has become a farce. When Puma Shen (沈伯洋) surfaced as a possible nominee, Chen Po-wei (陳柏惟) — a former legislator freshly joined to the party — prais......
On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched a large-scale coordinated military strike against Iran, killing Supreme Leader Khamenei and much of Iran's senior leader......
A High-Stakes Diplomatic MissionKuomintang Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) is set to lead a party delegation to mainland China on April 7, culminating in a meeting with Chinese Comm......
When China's People's Liberation Army conducted its "Joint Sword" exercises in 2025, senior Taiwanese national security officials disclosed something unusual: one drill component w......
Facing an increasingly closed and personally authoritarian China, Taiwan has two clear imperatives, according to Yasheng Huang (黃亞生), a globally recognized authority on China and p......
Taichung Mayor Lu Shiow-yen (盧秀燕) recently received an unexpectedly high-profile reception at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) during her visit to New York. Observers note th......
Taiwan's vulnerability to energy disruption — long flagged as a strategic liability in Washington policy circles — has gained renewed attention following recent conflict in the Mid......
For more than a decade, Asia served as the world's most reliable economic growth engine. That dominant narrative is now rapidly failing as the region fragments and old economic mod......
A bipartisan U.S. Senate delegation led by Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Republican Senator John Curtis arrived in Taiwan on Sunday, March 30, for a two-day visit. The dele......
As the United States conducts military operations in the Middle East, a sharp disagreement has emerged within Washington's foreign policy establishment. Speculation over a potentia......
The US and Israeli military campaign against Iran, launched on February 28, has evolved into a protracted conflict that threatens global economic stability and inadvertently advan......
"The Lobby Used to Be So Packed You Could Barely Move. Now It Feels Like a Different Hotel."At a resort hotel in Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, Chinese guests once accounte......
U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed Monday that Washington is actively negotiating with Iran, a major diplomatic development that Tehran's government has also formally acknowledg......
Taiwan is unlikely to be used as a bargaining chip in any upcoming summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping (習近平). That assessment comes from Chang ......
A dispute between Taiwan and Denmark over the labeling of Taiwanese nationals on residence permits has intensified, with Taipei issuing a formal protest and warning of further coun......
A recent examination of State Department records from 1949 housed at the U.S. National Archives illuminates a pivotal "what if" in modern history: Did the United States ever seriou......
Now entering its third week, the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran shows no signs of resolution. Debates continue to swirl in Washington over whether to force open the St......
A low-key administrative adjustment by Taiwan's government has drawn sharp criticism at home and mockery abroad, raising questions about the effectiveness of symbolic reciprocity a......
For the past five years, the notion that the People's Liberation Army would invade Taiwan in 2027 had taken on the character of received wisdom in Washington's think tanks and poli......
A pointed sentiment is circulating on American social media: People say they now support a military strike on Iran—on one condition. If President Donald Trump is so committed to ma......
China's newly approved 15th Five-Year Plan features a sharper, more aggressive tone toward Taiwan, replacing long-standing rhetoric with a vow to "resolutely strike" against Taiwan......
Yusuke Anami (阿南友亮) is a professor at Tohoku University's Graduate School of Law, born in 1972, and holds a doctorate from Keio University's Graduate School of Law. His research fo......
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 sweeping purge of China's top military brass has stripped the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of its last institutional brakes, creating a highly volatile environment where a "l......
