In law and institutions, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is advancing toward the goal of a thoroughly unitary nation-state. For ethnic minorities, this represents an entirely new......
Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council has warned that China's new ethnic unity law functions as a quasi-constitutional instrument personally shaped by Xi Jinping to advance forced unif......
Taiwan's top cross-strait policy body has accused Beijing of using a newly enacted ethnic unity law to impose legal obligations on Taiwanese citizens, warning the measure marks an ......
China's Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress takes effect on July 1, giving Beijing a sweeping new legal instrument that analysts and foreign governments warn could extend pu......
More than 81 years have passed since Japan's surrender, yet one question about that moment continues to provoke debate: was there ever a realistic possibility that Zhu De (朱德), com......
Released over China's Dragon Boat Festival holiday, director Feng Xiaogang's (馮小剛) new film I Know Who You Are (抓特務, Zhua Te Wu)arrives carrying the anticipation that follows a dir......
On the 37th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has issued a formal statement demanding that the Chinese government con......
When Rear Adm. Michael Studeman briefed then-President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) in 2021 on likely Chinese military moves ahead of any invasion, Tsai told him she had waited four years fo......
China's ruling party has published a pointed rebuke of a governance pattern embedded across its local bureaucracy — one in which officials systematically avoid making independent ......
A new survey showing that more than four million Taiwanese say they could accept "peaceful unification" with China has drawn sharp pushback from a leading political scientist, who ......
Taiwan's legislature has yet to reach consensus on a proposed eight-year, NT$1.25 trillion special defense appropriations bill—formally titled the Special Act for Strengthening D......
"Geopolitical shifts and international upheaval are interconnected. What matters most for Taiwan is reducing its own variables, holding steady — and military procurement and nation......
Kuomintang（KMT）Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun(鄭麗文) met Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday morning in the first KMT–CCP leadership summit in ten year......
Beijing made a major move on March 30, 2026, as state media announced that Xi Jinping (習近平), General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, personally welcomed and invited Chen......
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......
From the fax machine to the internet to artificial intelligence, a recurring hope has run through Western democratic thinking: that technology would eventually make China freer. It......
After Beijing set its lowest growth target in decades — 4.5 to 5 percent for 2026 — the familiar question resurfaced: what has gone wrong with China?Yasheng Huang (黃亞生), a leading ......
On January 3rd, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, discussing an escalating confrontation with Iran, told reporters: “In the coming hours to days, we will unleash Chiang.” The ph......
The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved the PROTECT Taiwan Act (H.R. 1531), a bipartisan measure that aims to link Taiwan's security to potential restrictions......
Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) has rejected a 15-point “consensus” reached at a KMT–CCP forum, warning that the initiative reflects Beijing's United Front strategy and r......
Taiwan's Information, Communications and Electronic Force Command, or ICEFCOM, often referred to as the military's "fourth service branch," has found itself in an unusual spotlight......
Social Media Links & Editor Tag- ChaseChina's Ministry of Defense recently announced that Central Military Commission Vice Chairman Zhang Youxia and Chief of Joint Staff Liu Zhenli......
Taiwan's government has revoked the residence permit of a Chinese employee from the Taiwanese multinational electronics manufacturer ASUS named Qian Li. Li accused her company's CE......
A stranger verbally provokedDemocratic Progressive Party Legislator Puma Shenduring an evening stroll with his family on December 7. Shen claimed the man repeatedlywaved a phone's ......
One day in September 2024, Ding Xiaohu - a 68-year-old resident of Mainland China - was standing outside the Sunworld Dynasty Hotel in Taipei, nonchalantly discussing his plans ......
