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's former President Tsai Ing-wen made her first public appearance in Taiwan on Thursday since returning from a trip to Italy, telling a business audience that the island can ......
Former Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen visited Rome last week for the Global Women Leaders Summit, where she was personally received inside the Italian Senate by its deputy speake......
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......
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......
A new poll released Monday shows that nearly three-quarters of Taiwan's public supports political negotiations with Beijing when measured across a ten-year dataset, with former Pre......
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......
When Rear Adm. Michael Studeman briefed then-President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) in 2021 on likely Chinese military moves ahead of any invasion, Tsai told him she had waited four years fo......
Hsing Tai-chao (邢泰釗), who recently stepped down as Taiwan's Prosecutor-General, may be the most self-promotional occupant of that office in living memory. Five book launch events, ......
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......
Taiwan's nuclear-free status turned one year old this week. There is little to celebrate. What was billed as a historic milestone for the Democratic Progressive Party and its allie......
A new survey showing that more than four million Taiwanese say they could accept "peaceful unification" with China has drawn sharp pushback from a leading political scientist, who ......
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) successfully visited Eswatini — Taiwan's only remaining diplomatic ally in Africa — despite intense pressure from Beijing that initially blocked......
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......
With their term expiring at the end of July, a group of sixth-term Control Yuan commissioners has chosen a remarkable way to go out: reopening an investigation into National Taiwan......
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......
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......
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......
Taiwan's team was eliminated from the World Baseball Classic preliminaries. That should have been the story. Instead, Premier Cho Jung-tai's (卓榮泰) brief trip to Tokyo to watch the ......
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......
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......
When President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) posted on Facebook after his Lunar New Year tea meeting with the heads of Taiwan's five constitutional branches, he was jubilant. The gathering, h......
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) assembled an unprecedented display of military leadership at the Presidential Office to promote his administration's NT$1.25 trillion (about U......
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......
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 Information, Communications and Electronic Force Command, or ICEFCOM, often referred to as the military's "fourth service branch," has found itself in an unusual spotlight......
Two recent court rulings rejecting penalties against online critics have drawn a clear line on how far Taiwan's government can go in policing speech. At issue were posts mocking cl......
As Taiwan's current legislative session enters its final week, the Taiwan People's Party delivered on party chairman Huang Kuo-chang's post-U.S. visit pledge by introducing its own......
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......
