As tensions across East Asia continue to rise, China's People's Liberation Army Navy fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile into the Pacific on July 6 — a test that breached ......
Richard Koo (辜朝明), chief economist at Nomura Research Institute (野村總合研究所) in Japan, has argued that the current crisis involving Iran and the United States was largely set in motio......
As the United States marked 250 years of independence on July 4, Chinese state media and social platforms devoted unusual attention to the milestone, even as Washington, Brussels a......
Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed this week that the Trump administration is holding up a $14 billion arms package for Taiwan, telling Congress the deal remains under review......
Throughout June, Chinese coast guard vessels pushed into Japanese and Philippine waters on three separate fronts east and southeast of Taiwan, escorting government research ships a......
As U.S.-Iran tensions show tentative signs of easing, a prominent Washington strategist is urging the Trump administration to confront an uncomfortable paradox at the heart of its ......
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......
The U.S. Department of War announced on June 16 that U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) would officially revert to its former name, U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM). While its a......
Kevin Warsh chairs his first Federal Open Market Committee meeting this week under conditions that would test any central banker — and that will test him in ways his predecessor ne......
For decades, the question of whether the United States would intervene militarily to defend Taiwan against a People's Liberation Army assault has been one of Asia's most fiercely c......
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 ......
An Apache crash in the Strait of Hormuz has put a number on a brutal reality — U.S. air power is hemorrhaging assets at a rate not seen since Vietnam, and the bill is already $29 b......
Taiwan should respond to Washington's latest threat of punitive tariffs. But it should harbor no illusions that doing so will make those tariffs go away — because the stated ration......
As global AI investment accelerates unchecked, chemistry laureate Joachim Frank — visiting Taiwan for the first time in 27 years — tells Storm Media that the technology is strippin......
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently stated in an interview that Chinese President Xi Jinping's preferred cross-strait scenario would be achieved through some form of unifi......
When U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly accuses Taiwan of "stealing" America's semiconductor industry, the appropriate response from Taipei is clear rebuttal. Instead, Premier ......
Donald Trump's assertion that Taiwan took America's semiconductor industry has become a fixture of his trade rhetoric. A detailed counter-argument published this week by a veteran ......
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......
When Donald Trump sat down with Xi Jinping in Beijing on May 15, neither government's official readout mentioned Taiwan's arms purchases. Trump himself, however, was considerably l......
The Trump-Xi summit held in Beijing from May 13 to 15 concluded without the major breakthroughs many had anticipated. President Donald Trump led a delegation of American business e......
The Trump administration has suspended a proposed $14 billion arms sale to Taiwan, one of the largest defense packages considered for the island, after the Pentagon and White House......
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in the Chinese capital just days after U.S. President Donald Trump concluded his own visit, in a sequence of high-profile summits that unde......
The Trump-Xi summit has shattered what remained of Taiwan's strategic comfort zone. What emerged from that meeting was not ambiguity but blunt clarity — and Taiwan's ruling party i......
Taipei officials acknowledge Trump's remarks and thank Washington for its concern over cross-strait stability; the Presidential Office says more details will be released as develop......
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 ......
Taiwan's Minister of National Defense Wellington Koo (顧立雄) said Monday he remained "cautiously optimistic" that arms transfers from Washington would continue, seeking to project ca......
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......
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......
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi confirmed on the evening of May 15 that U.S. President Donald Trump called her directly from Air Force One shortly after departing China, off......
China's state media outlet People's Daily published a lengthy strategic commentary on May 13 that marks a notable departure in how Beijing publicly frames its relationship with Was......
Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has firmly rejected Chinese President Xi Jinping's assertion that Taiwan independence is incompatible with peace in the Taiwan Strait, counteri......
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......
Taiwan's trade negotiators moved quickly on May 8 to contain expectations after a U.S. federal court struck down another of the Trump administration's tariff measures, clarifying t......
As President Donald Trump prepares to travel to Beijing for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, he has confirmed at the White House that arms sales to Taiwan will be direct......
Former European Commission president calls for a stronger European defense pillar within NATO — and says the war in Ukraine is the wake-up call the continent can no longer ignoreWh......
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to make his first visit to China since beginning his second term — and the first formal visit by a sitting U.S. president to China in nearly nine......
Taiwan's Foreign Ministry has elevated two previously marginal internal units to central roles in its diplomatic operations, signaling a structural shift away from values-based dip......
Taiwan's benchmark index crossed the 40,000-point threshold for the first time, propelled by a landmark regulatory change and broad-based gains among the market's heaviest hitters.......
Former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Matt Pottinger has argued that Taiwan's defense posture is quietly shifting — and that recent conflicts involving major powers offer cr......
The world's first documented maritime hantavirus outbreak has left three people dead aboard the Dutch expedition cruise ship MV Hondius, making it the deadliest recorded at-sea tra......
Two months into the U.S.-Iran war, a ceasefire that President Trump declared indefinite has held — for now. Negotiations have lurched on and off, and reports emerged this week that......
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi in Beijing on May 6, offering some of China's most pointed criticism of the US-Israel conflict with......
If one wanted to study authentic British royal English at its most refined, there is no better source than the monarch himself. Charles III's address to Congress was long, widely p......
"Geopolitical shifts and international upheaval are interconnected. What matters most for Taiwan is reducing its own variables, holding steady — and military procurement and nation......
U.S. President Donald Trump announced on the 21st an indefinite extension of a ceasefire with Iran, moving beyond the original 14-day window and pledging to maintain it until negot......
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......
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......
Taiwan's attempt to visit its sole African ally, Eswatini, collapsed after Seychelles, Mauritius, and Madagascar revoked overflight and landing permits for President Lai Ching-te's......
Just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters he was "ready to resume bombing Iran," he reversed course and unilaterally declared an "indefinite ceasefire" — a patter......
