More than thirty years ago, long before I had settled in Taiwan, I visited the island and offered a piece of advice to the then-ruling Kuomintang: give the Blue Sky and White Sun e......
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......
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 Legislative Yuan Speaker Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜), not known for a short fuse, erupted twice during the August 11 cross-party budget negotiations — a five-minute tirade to open the ......
Taiwan's Legislative Yuan Speaker Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) publicly reprimanded his own Kuomintang (KMT) caucus whip, Fu Kun-chi (傅崐萁), on August 11 for skipping budget negotiations, telli......
Less than two hours by road from Hong Kong, where a dispute over banned books continues to draw international scrutiny, this southern Chinese metropolis is playing host to a set of......
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......
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......
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......
Kuomintang(KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) came to New York prepared for a fight — and she got one.On the evening of June 8 (Eastern Time), Cheng appeared at the Asia Society's ......
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-......
A three-member inquiry panel found no financial misconduct by two former executives — but what it heard instead stunned investigators: a senior aide who prostrated herself before 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......
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......
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......
One of Beijing's most powerful ideologues used a high-profile cultural gathering this week to project a notably conciliatory posture on Taiwan — just days before U.S. President Don......
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......
"Geopolitical shifts and international upheaval are interconnected. What matters most for Taiwan is reducing its own variables, holding steady — and military procurement and nation......
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......
Taiwan's first homegrown submarine, Hai Kun (海鯤號), headed back out to sea Tuesday for the most consequential stretch of its trial program yet — a live torpedo-firing test that must......
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......
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......
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......
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......
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......
As tensions in the Middle East rapidly escalate and the risk of a US-Iran confrontation grows, Taiwan's strait security has returned to the core of international strategic debate. ......
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 ......
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......
A prominent Washington think tank is urging Taiwan to transform the Taiwan Strait into an unmanned "hellscape" to deter a potential Chinese invasion. However, domestic political gr......
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......
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 ......
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 annual government budget has yet to be passed, as opposition parties in the legislature remain deadlocked on certain items, chief among them a multi-year NTD 1.25 trillion......
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......
