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......
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......
China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has significantly intensified pressure on Taiwan, with Taiwan's National Security Bureau (NSB) warning that Beijing has organized a so-called......
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 ......
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......
The US and Israeli military campaign against Iran, launched on February 28, has evolved into a protracted conflict that threatens global economic stability and inadvertently advan......
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 ......
Now entering its third week, the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran shows no signs of resolution. Debates continue to swirl in Washington over whether to force open the St......
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a Washington-based think tank, last month recommended that Taiwan establish a four-layer "maritime hellscape" defense zone extending ......
With the United States struggling to find allies willing to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, Taiwan should proactively offer to send naval vessels to the Middle East — fully expec......
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......
As the United States and Iran trade mass drone strikes across the Strait of Hormuz, the logic of modern warfare is being rewritten in real time — and some analysts warn Taiwan has ......
As the U.S.-Iran conflict enters its third week, the scope of military operations may expand beyond missile and drone exchanges to include amphibious operations targeting strategic......
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......
Yusuke Anami (阿南友亮) is a professor at Tohoku University's Graduate School of Law, born in 1972, and holds a doctorate from Keio University's Graduate School of Law. His research fo......
The sweeping purge of China's top military brass has stripped the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of its last institutional brakes, creating a highly volatile environment where a "l......
After U.S. and Israeli forces launched precision strikes against Iran, Chinese military aircraft that had been appearing almost daily in airspace around Taiwan nearly vanished. Tha......
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......
For twelve consecutive days beginning February 27, People's Liberation Army aircraft recorded no sorties over the Taiwan Strait's western approaches — an absence that prompted a wa......
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......
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......
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......
Recent military escalations between the United States and Iran have starkly exposed the fragility of Taiwan's energy policy, prompting warnings from policy analysts and oppositio......
The United States and Israel have launched "Operation Epic Fury," a surprise strike that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in an air raid. Iran's Revolutionary Guard has r......
As Taiwan's first domestically built submarine, Hai Kun (海鯤號), moves through sea acceptance trials, attention is fixed not only on the vessel itself but on the small, insular force......
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......
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 rumored summit between KMT Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) and CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping (習近平) will not take place on March 12, Storm Media has confirmed. Cheng is instead......
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......
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......
Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has secured a historic landslide in the House of Representatives election, winning 316 seats—more than two-thirds of the chamber. Sanae Takai......
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'......
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......
