Taiwan recorded another two cases of domestic transmission of COVID-19 earlier this week, after a doctor and his partner, a nurse who works at the same hospital in northern Taiwan, were both confirmed as infected with COVID-19...
Not yet translated into English, Her Battles tells the stories of female activists and dissidents in China and their activism, roughly spanning the early 2000s to 2016. But Zhao Sile, also known as Alison Zhao, is also an activist in her own right...
A planned visit to Taiwan by America’s ambassador to the UN, Kelly Craft, was abruptly canceled earlier today. Diplomatic visits by other members of the Trump administration, including a planned visit by American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Belgium, were also canceled...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the lifting of self-imposed restrictions on contacts between the American and Taiwanese governments earlier today in a move that took many by surprise...
Concerns regarding self-censorship by Taiwanese companies have been raised after Airiti Library, Taiwan’s dominant academic database, was found to be censoring or changing sensitive political terms in order to avoid being shut out of the Chinese market...
An investment agreement between the European Union and China has led to a round of self-questioning regarding Taiwan’s economic positioning in the world...
With less than two weeks left before the transition of power between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the Trump administration surprised on Wednesday by announcing that Kelly Craft, America’s ambassador to the UN, will visit Taiwan. The trip was announced by American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo...
After comments by outgoing president Donald Trump, who lost to Joe Biden in 2020 American presidential elections, a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol earlier today. Unfortunately, it is probable that one will soon see a wave of Trump supporters in Taiwan and Hong Kong claiming that the storming of the US Capitol was a legitimate action aimed at preserving democracy...
Over fifty pro-democracy politicians were arrested today in Hong Kong, in the largest set of arrests in an ongoing crackdown that has taken place across past weeks. The arrests effectively seek to wholly eliminate the pan-Democratic opposition...
