The Executive Yuan's recent approval of a NT$352.1 billion plan to extend Taiwan's high-speed rail (HSR) network to Yilan — and its broader endorsement of an island-wide "four 90-m......
Taiwan's annual Han Kuang military exercise this year included, for the first time, a simulated internet disruption — throttling mobile data speeds across counties in the north and......
As China's Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress entered into force on July 1, Taiwan finds itself on the other side of a pointed contrast: a sweeping national security reform......
Taiwan last year recorded a total fertility rate of 0.695 — the lowest ever measured for any country in the world. No amount of cash incentives, childcare reform, or parental leave......
Taiwan is not merely aging — it is disappearing. New government population data released this month confirm that the island's demographic crisis has deepened to a point that calls ......
Taiwan's government has formally condemned China after a Japanese-born political commentator was punched in the face during a public event in Taichung, an assault prosecutors say w......
Sixteen years after Taiwan and China signed the Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), the deal has outlived the political consensus that produced it — yet t......
China's Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO), the Ministry of Education, the All-China Youth Federation and the Beijing municipal government opened the 2026 Cross-Strait Youth Summit in Bei......
The Ministry of Economic Affairs is preparing to aggressively promote "small hydropower" development — and to this editorial board, it signals that the Democratic Progressive Party......
Taiwan's Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairman Michael You (游盈隆) has been in office for barely two months. That was long enough for Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislat......
Legislative Yuan Speaker Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) capped a cross-party delegation visit to Washington with a meeting at the Capitol alongside House Speaker Mike Johnson — and Taiwan's poli......
Taiwan's Ministry of Culture has appointed veteran journalist and political commentator Chiang Chun-nan (江春男), 82, as the new chairman of the Central News Agency (CNA), drawing fre......
The Straits Forum has convened for eighteen consecutive years. The Democratic Progressive Party has long regarded it with suspicion as an instrument of Beijing's political outreach......
When KMT Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) made a high-profile visit to the United States, the Democratic Progressive Party responded with barely concealed fury.What set it off was a p......
Two cases, unfolding simultaneously at opposite ends of Taiwan, have laid bare a troubling asymmetry at the heart of the island's judiciary. One involves a convicted former ruling-......
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......
Chiu Yi-jen (邱義仁) does not give interviews casually. As former Secretary-General of the National Security Council, presidential adviser, and Vice Chairman of the Democratic Progres......
A $14 billion U.S. arms sale package to Taiwan has been suspended in the wake of President Donald Trump's summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing — a development that a......
A recent diplomatic slip-up has exposed a deeper issue for Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT): its leadership sometimes struggles to articulate the party's own rich history with Japanese co......
Taiwan's nuclear-free status turned one year old this week. There is little to celebrate. What was billed as a historic milestone for the Democratic Progressive Party and its allie......
When U.S. President Donald Trump said after his meeting with Xi Jinping that he did not want to see anyone "move toward independence," the remark drew immediate international atten......
What Xi Actually Said to Trump — and Why It Matters More Than Taiwan's Response
After the Trump-Xi summit in China, President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) issued a 1,500-character statement......
After months of failed negotiations and persistent deadlock over the total budget figure, Taiwan's Legislative Yuan on May 8 passed the Special Act for Safeguarding National Securi......
A seemingly technical dispute over nuclear fuel rods has recently drawn public attention in Taiwan — but the real story is not about NT$4 billion in potential savings. It is about ......
Taiwan's central government budget has been stalled for nearly 230 days. On April 24, a cross-party negotiation session at the Legislative Yuan produced a breakthrough framework in......
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......
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......
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......
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......
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......
Taiwan's main opposition party is not facing its greatest challenge from the strength of its rivals, but from a deeper and more persistent issue: the erosion of internal political ......
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......
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 ......
When President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) posted on Facebook after his Lunar New Year tea meeting with the heads of Taiwan's five constitutional branches, he was jubilant. The gathering, h......
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......
The Kuomintang (KMT), Taiwan's main opposition party, has restarted a long dormant cross strait forum for dialogue with Beijing after a nine-year hiatus, signaling a strategic shif......
Taiwan's Legislative Yuan is set to swear in six replacement at-large legislators today, including Taiwan People's Party (TPP) nominee Li Zhen-xiu(李貞秀). While public attention has ......
During a meeting of the Kuomintang Central Standing Committee on January 28, party Chairperson Cheng Li-wen (鄭麗文) stated that Taiwan "does not need to choose between the U.S. and C......
According to sources, the "KMT-CCP Forum" that has been suspended for 9 years is confirmed to restart! It is expected that KMT Vice Chairman Hsiao Hsu-tsen will lead KMT think tank......
Taiwan People's Party legislative caucus leader Huang Kuo-chang revealed in a radio program on December 17 thatmembers of his party had met with Kuomintang representatives on Tuesd......
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 ......
On November 26, the Democratic Progressive Party approved two new nominees for the 2026 mayoral elections: DPP legislator Su Chiao-hui for mayor of New Taipei City and Councilor Ch......
