Peter Navarro is reputed to be Trump's "China guru," that is, his main expert on China. While the Trump transition team has attempted to bill Navarro as a “visionary," Navarro’s ideas on China are hardly original, but merely present old ideas from the Cold War in updated form for the globalized world of today...
Now that The Great Wall is finally out, we can finally make our judgements about it as a film in and of itself, rather than basing our impressions on trailers. The film ultimately reveals far more complicated racial dynamics than simply just Hollywood "whitewashing"...
Tsai Ing-Wen's stopover transit in Houston on her way to visit Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador and her subsequent meeting with Texas senator and former presidential hopeful Ted Cruz may have drawn hysterics from alarmists, but it is really no more than business as usual. But this non-departure from standard procedure in and of itself is worthy of reflection, and we might take look at how this fits into the current context of Taiwan’s international situation...
A flurry of media speculation and public commentary has ensued after author, comedian, and social activist Neil Peng’s withdrawal from the New Power Party...
Much of the media commentary to date about possible threats to American regional hegemony by China’s carrier group, fronted by its sole aircraft carrier the Liaoning, is largely meaningless political theater overhyped by the media...
A visit by Hong Kong legislators to Taiwan over the past weekend for a conference organized by the New Power Party has seen protests from pro-China groups in Taiwan, as well as warnings from China against Taiwanese independence activists and Hong Kong independence activists seeking to ally with each other...
The twisted nature of Tawan's workplace culture is evident in that business groups’ solution to what is quite evidently a problem of understaffing after recent labor reforms is not to hire more workers, but in many cases to try and force workers to work overtime. The Tsai administration has not proved much better...
The specter of “rising tensions” or in Taiwan or ever-worsening relations with China as a product of ramped up cross-strait anxiety is a trope of reporting about Taiwan which urgently needs to go away...
Some claim that the KMT only needs to "localize" to survive its current political crisis. But the truth is that the KMT has already "localized" and this only took the party in an extreme pro-unification direction. We can observe this in the example of Hung Hsiu-Chu herself...