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......
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 — 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......
As geopolitical tensions reshape research priorities worldwide, theTang Prize Foundation on April 30 published a report arguing that artificial intelligence has become one of the b......
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......
When Michael You (游盈隆) took the helm of Taiwan's Central Election Commission (CEC) last month, few expected him to immediately pick a fight with the cabinet. Yet within weeks of hi......
The Democratic Progressive Party has yet to formally nominate a candidate for Taipei mayor. But legislator Puma Shen (沈伯洋) has effectively positioned himself as the frontrunner — d......
When a U.S. Army soldier allegedly used classified details of a secret military operation to pocket $410,000 on a prediction market platform — and French authorities opened a crimi......
On the eve of President Lai Ching-te (賴清德)'s planned visit to Eswatini, the trip was suddenly called off. Since taking office, Lai has been barred from transiting through the conti......
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......
Li Zhen-xiu (李貞秀) is truly a pity.Not because she lasted only seventy days as a legislator. Not because she picked a fight with the Taiwan People's Party and got herself kicked out......
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......
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......
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," ......
Kuomintang Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) led a delegation to mainland China and held a luncheon meeting with approximately 300 Taiwanese businesspeople at the Shanghai Dongjiao Sta......
Kuomintang (KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) led a party delegation to mainland China, meeting with Jiangsu Province Communist Party Secretary Xin Changxing (信長星) at noon on Apri......
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......
The world is already burning in two places. The Asia-Pacific does not need to become a third. Yet Taiwan's current political climate — marked by a government that conflates dialogu......
In an exclusive telephone interview with Storm Media, Lee Tai-chuang (李大壯) — chairman of the China New Era Think Tank Foundation, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Confer......
On March 30, a senior Chinese official announced that President Xi Jinping (習近平) had formally invited Kuomintang Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) to lead a delegation to China. The hi......
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......
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......
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......
Kuomintang Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) will lead a historic party delegation to mainland China from April 7 to April 12. This monumental diplomatic trip marks the first visit by ......
Kuomintang Chairperson Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) is scheduled to visit mainland China from April 7 to April 12. This marks the first time in a decade that a sitting KMT chair has made suc......
The Legislative Yuan's Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee, along with the Finance Committee, reviewed competing special defense budget bills proposed by the Executive Y......
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......
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has formally assessed that China has no current plan to invade Taiwan in 2027 and no fixed reunification timetable, effe......
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......
China's Taiwan Affairs Office held its regular press briefing on March 25, with spokesperson Zhu Fenglian (朱鳳蓮) outlining a series of infrastructure projects that Beijing says it c......
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 new annual survey of British businesses operating in Taiwan has found that political variables are increasingly shaping UK firms' decisions on further expansion in Taiwan — rangi......
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......
The ongoing U.S.-Iran military conflict is narrowing Washington's leverage over Beijing while potentially strengthening Chinese President Xi Jinping's strategic confidence toward T......
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......
As the United States and Israel conduct joint military operations against Iran and the Russia-Ukraine war stretches into its fourth year, the stability of the Taiwan Strait remains......
Storm Media Group today announced the official launch of its English-language news site, The Storm Media. This marks the company's first English-language news platform following it......
China's top political advisory body maintained a notably restrained approach toward Taiwan in its annual work report, signaling Beijing's preference for economic stability over hi......
Taiwan is facing an unprecedented tourism imbalance with mainland China, as Taiwanese travelers increasingly flock across the strait while Chinese tourists remain largely absent fr......
As speculation intensifies over a potential "grand bargain" regarding Taiwan ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump's highly anticipated summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平......
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) used the term "the mainland" to refer to China in a public address on February 24, marking a notable softening in language from a leader who h......
The traditional crackle of firecrackers and the warmth of family comedy skits receded into the background this Lunar New Year, as China's most-watched political and cultural showca......
Taiwan has rejected Beijing's call to unilaterally expand direct cross-strait flights, arguing that commercial airlines will not increase capacity until China lifts its ban on grou......
Beijing's top political advisor has signaled a potentially significant softening in China's Taiwan policy, dropping standard rhetoric about "inevitable reunification" in favor of l......
China appears to be recalibrating its approach to Taiwan, signaling a strategic shift away from overt military pressure toward a policy of "economic integration" and grassroots eng......
For decades, cross-strait tensions were cushioned by a dense web of civilian exchanges—tourists, scholars, students, and informal intermediaries who quietly absorbed shocks when po......
High-resolution satellite imagery analyzed by Japanese researchers suggests that China may be moving closer to deploying its first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier—a development th......
Kuomintang (KMT) Vice Chairman Hsiao Hsu-tsen (蕭旭岑) led a party delegation to Beijing this week for a “KMT–CCP Think Tank Forum,” underscoring the opposition party's bid to keep ......
As tensions across the Taiwan Strait continue to simmer, a quieter but consequential shift is undermining Taipei's ability to read and manage Beijing: the steady erosion of Taiwan'......
