Perhaps of the most surprising outcomes of the South China Seas arbitration ruling in favor of the Philippines would be Taiwan’s sudden intervention into the matter through deploying a warship to Taiping Island...
South China Seas disputes are back in the news after a ruling by the UN Permanent Court of Arbitration by the Hague in favor of the Philippines, between disputed territorial claims between China and the Philippines...
There are those in Taiwan who have hailed Brexit as a positive, seeing false equivalency between Brexit and achieving a referendum on Taiwanese independence from China. But this is to fail to understand that Brexit indicates a rightward political shift, not only in European, but global politics...
Labor issues are not out of the news just yet. In fact, it seems very likely that the Tsai administration is headed for a conflict with Taiwanese civil society, youth activists, and labor unions very soon regarding labor laws regulating migrant workers and worker vacations...
The film Detective Chinatown, recently pulled from a screening at the Thailand Film Destination Festival, exoticizes Thai culture. We might take a look...
Recent protests in Hong Kong marking the 19th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong from British control to Chinese control were another occasion for the internal conflict between Hong Kong’s political camps to demonstrate itself...