KMT at-large legislator Weng Hsiao-ling has made more enemies inside her own party than across the aisle — and shows no sign of stopping.When Taiwan's Legislative Yuan closed its f......
The Economist's recent piece "Taking Taiwan's democracy hostage" opens with a blunt question: how many young Taiwanese is Xi Jinping willing to shoot to take the island? From there......
Support for Taiwan's three major political parties all declined in the latest monthly survey, with the Taiwan People's Party (TPP) taking the steepest fall — sinking 4.2 percentage......
Taiwan's government unveiled a near-NT$4 trillion (US$125 billion) budget this week that sets aside more than NT$600 billion (US$18.8 billion) in direct cash programs for citizens ......
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) has confirmed plans to restart two of the island's shuttered nuclear plants — but conspicuously missing from that agenda is Nuclear Power Plan......
Taiwan kicked off Han Kuang 42, its largest annual live-force military exercise, on August 5, with the ten-day drill drawing sharply divergent reactions on both sides of the Taiwan......
Lyle Morris, a senior fellow at the Asia Society's Center for China Analysis, published a report on July 23, 2026, identifying eight variables he says shape Chinese leader Xi Jinpi......
Taiwan's legislature has blocked funding for unmanned military systems for months, and Defense Minister Wellington Koo (顧立雄) is no longer masking his alarm. The impasse, he warned ......
Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau — the island's equivalent of the FBI, whose statutory mandate covers organized crime, cross-border criminal networks, and major economic offe......
Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party completed a significant internal power reshuffle on July 19, electing 10 members to its Central Standing Committee — the body that will......
Taiwan's legislature cleared a key preliminary hurdle on July 13 for draft amendments that would ease two-decade-old restrictions on foreign participation in the country's telecom ......
Taiwan's Premier Cho Jung-tai faced calls to apologize in the Legislative Yuan this week over a carcinogenic cooking oil scandal centered on Central Union Oil Corp. (中聯油脂) — and sh......
In late April 2026, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te was scheduled to conduct a diplomatic visit to the Kingdom of Eswatini to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the coronation of Ki......
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 is on course to record fewer than 80,000 births this year — and a leading obstetrician warns the final tally may not even reach that threshold. The numbers represent a new l......
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......
When Taiwan rejected a Chinese tourism delegation's scouting trip for the second time this year, Li Chiyueh, chairman of the Chinese Quality Tourism Development Association, said t......
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......
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......
Taiwan's National Security Bureau (國家安全局, NSB) opened a dedicated online portal on June 14 to solicit intelligence tips from people inside mainland China and Chinese nationals abro......
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......
When the New York Times screened a video interview with Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) at its annual DealBook Summit last December, few expected the fallout to land on a jou......
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......
As President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) marks the second anniversary of his inauguration, he finds himself hemmed in on every side — by a transactional Washington, a closed-off Beijing, a ......
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......
When Taiwan's Legislative Yuan rejected Hsu Hsi-hsiang (徐錫祥) as the nominee for Prosecutor General, President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) did not pause, reconsider, or seek a new candidate.......
"Geopolitical shifts and international upheaval are interconnected. What matters most for Taiwan is reducing its own variables, holding steady — and military procurement and nation......
A proposed NT$1.25 trillion (US$39.1 billion) special defense budget, spread across eight years, has plunged the Kuomintang(KMT) into an embarrassing internal brawl — one that expo......
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......
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," ......
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......
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......
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......
Taiwan's legislature has authorized the executive branch to sign Letters of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) for four U.S. arms procurement packages, even as the broader NT$1.25 trillion......
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 Taiwan People's Party (TPP) Legislator Li Zhen-xiu (李貞秀) — a mainland-born spouse recently elected to the legislature — appeared before the Interior Committee for her first of......
As the conflict in the Middle East rapidly escalates, the Taiwanese government is facing mounting domestic criticism over its overseas emergency response. The controversy ignited w......
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......
A historic election landslide for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has sparked intense debate among policy experts in Taiwan, with scholars warning that Tokyo's potential shi......
The inauguration this week of Lee Chen-hsiu (李貞秀) as Taiwan's first legislator of mainland Chinese descent marked a historic milestone for the Taiwan People's Party (TPP), yet the......
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......
Facing escalating tariff threats and diplomatic insults from the White House, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is attempting a high-stakes pivot toward Beijing, aiming to offset......
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'......
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......
