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......
When Americans recall the U.S. military's role in wartime China, the names that surface are almost always the same: Claire L. Chennault, who led the legendary Flying Tigers, and Jo......
A trove of declassified Office of Naval Intelligence files reviewed at the U.S. National Archives in 2025 upends a durable assumption about Dai Li (戴笠), wartime director of Nationa......
When Japan and the Philippines quietly announced plans to draw a maritime boundary in waters east of Taiwan, China did not file a diplomatic protest. It sent warships.Within days o......
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......
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......
Deputy Foreign Minister Ko Pao-hsuan (葛葆萱) spent five years in New Delhi building the relationship. Now he's running it from Taipei.Taiwan's decision to recruit Indian migrant work......
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 ......
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......
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) moved quickly to address public concern on Saturday evening (May 17), posting a detailed five-point statement on Facebook after U.S. President D......
A recent examination of State Department records from 1949 housed at the U.S. National Archives illuminates a pivotal "what if" in modern history: Did the United States ever seriou......
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......
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 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 ......
Kuomintang Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun stated that while Taiwan and China are independent sovereign states, they both belong to "one China" during a lectureat Soochow University on the......
A senior's response to a civic midterm question at Kaohsiung's Gangshan High School erupted into controversy across Taiwan.At one point in the response, the student used the title ......
Many Chinese tourists to Japan have recently pretended that they are from Taiwanto avoid discrimination, amidst a spike in Sino-Japanese tensions following Japanese Prime Minister ......
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning did not deny reports suggesting that the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has been in contact with China to explore......
