KMT chair Cheng Li-wun met with Chinese President Xi Jinping today in Beijing. The meeting took place as part of a six-day trip by Cheng to China that started on April 7th...
Several hundred demonstrated today against the continued existence of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial. In particular, demonstrators called for the dismantling of the memorial, with the view that Taiwan does not need a monument to an authoritarian dictator in the present day...
Former Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je has been sentenced to 17 years in jail and 6 years of being deprived of his civil rights. This marks a heavy sentence for the founder of the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) founder, who ran as the TPP presidential candidate in the 2024 election. Before his legal troubles in the last two years, Ko continued to be a presidential hopeful...
In an unusual move, earlier this month, the Chinese government made an offer of energy security to Taiwan in return for giving up sovereignty and agreeing to Chinese rule. This was, of course, immediately turned down by the Lai administration, given that this would mean agreeing to annexation...
Tibetan Uprising Day was commemorated in Taipei on Saturday, March 7th outside of the Zhongxiao Fuxing SOGO. Tibetan Uprising Day is commemorated annually to memorialize a protest by around 10,000 Tibetans on March 10th, 1959 to demonstrate against the CCP’s annexation of Tibet. The protest was subsequently cracked down on by Chinese military forces. This year marked the 67th anniversary of Tibetan Uprising Day...
China's air incursions dropped to zero earlier this month for close to a two-week period, leading to questions as to why that had taken place. Reflective of the media discourse of today, in which hot takes prevail, there was immediately a large wave of rampant speculation on the Internet. Chinese air incursions into Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone–the airspace in which aircraft identify themselves for security purposes–have increased to a near-daily basis since the August 2022 visit to Taiwan by then-US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi...
The KMT and TPP have hit out at a visit to Japan by Premier Cho Jung-tai to watch a game at the World Baseball Classic. Taiwan defeated regional rival South Korea for the first time in history at the WBC game, advancing Taiwan to the next round of competition...
