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.......
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......
Taiwan's state-owned oil company CPC Corporation announced this week that fuel prices will remain frozen for the fourth consecutive week. The decision was unsurprising. But unsurpr......
A revealing contradiction has emerged at the heart of the Lai Ching-te (賴清德) administration's consumer policy. On one side, the government has frozen fuel prices, with Premier Cho ......
This article uses the 2022 Russia-Ukraine War and the 2026 U.S.-Iran conflict as parallel cases to explain two distinct mechanisms behind oil price increases. The former involved a......
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......
Donald Trump has never been known for diplomatic restraint. But even by his own standards, what unfolded in the Oval Office on March 19 was striking. Seated beside Japanese Prime M......
When the United States and Israel launched large-scale airstrikes against Iran in late February, Washington's political narrative was straightforward: The strikes were a necessary ......
There is a popular saying about "forgetting the pain once the wound heals." It aptly describes the goldfish-like memory of policymakers who fail to learn from past mistakes. The La......
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......
