Just over twenty days after the arrest and detention of Taiwanese human rights NGO worker Lee Ming-Che by Chinese authorities, little has been clarified regarding his abduction. On April 10th, Lee Ming-Che’s wife, Lee Ching-Yu, attempted to fly to China in order to search for her husband, but did not even make it out of Taiwan...
The arrest and detention in China of Lee Ming-Che, a former staffer in DPP headquarters and human rights advocate, has provoked shock and worry in Taiwan...
The recent announcement that Rebiya Kadeer, president of the World Uyghur Congress, will not be visiting Taiwan in the near future may be a sign that the strategy adopted by pro-China political forces in Taiwan who have taken to harassing or even physically assaulting political dissidents against China may be working...
The bizarre news that China plans on commemorating Taiwan’s 228 Massacre is representative of Chinese attempts to assert claims over Taiwan by incorporating Taiwanese history in Chinese history writ large. This is nothing new...
China's constant bellyaching about Taiwan to the US or other western countries may prove counterproductive for attempts to reclaim Taiwan, seeing as through continual high-profile complaints about Taiwan, it risks coming off as petty and single-mindedly fixated on the issue of Taiwan...
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...
With recent reports that China is preparing to vet Taiwanese businesses that conduct trade with China in order to filter out “pro-independence” businesses, we might step back to evaluate China’s claims...