NTNU Professor’s Detention Suggests Further Cases of Cross-Straits Kidnappings by China

Brian Hioe

China’s New Economic Incentives Offered to Taiwan Are a Repeat of Old Tactics

Brian Hioe

America’s Withdrawal from Syria Offers Lessons for Taiwan

Brian Hioe

Lack of Attention in Taiwan to Protests in Ecuador

Andi Kao

Kiribati Breaks Ties with Taiwan, Raising Fears That Other Diplomatic Allies Will Switch to Recognizing China

Brian Hioe

International

Why Does China Hope to Accomplish Through Deploying Fighter Planes in the Taiwan Straits?

Brian Hioe
Two Chinese J-11 fighter aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Straits at 11 AM yesterday morning, provoking strong reactions from within Taiwan and prompting the Taiwanese air force to mobilize five fighter planes in response. The incident was a break from precedent, seeing as while Chinese regularly fields planes in the Taiwan Straits, they do not usually cross the median line of the Taiwan Straits... Read More
April 2019Cross StraitEnglishInternational1 Comment 06 min read

Visit by Han Kuo-Yu to Beijing Liaison Office Prompts Criticism from Hong Kong, Taiwan Politicians

Brian Hioe
A visit by Kaohsiung mayor Han Kuo-yu to Hong Kong has provoked outrage from both Taiwan and Hong Kong politicians. Han is accused of infringing upon both Hong Kong and Taiwan’s sovereignty in directly meeting with Wang Zhimin, the director of Hong Kong’s Beijing Liaison Office, which represents the Chinese government in Hong Kong... Read More
Cross StraitEnglishInternationalMarch 20190 Comments 06 min read

Why Is AIT so Anxious About an Independence Referendum in Taiwan?

Milo Hsieh
Responding to a call for progress towards an independence referendum, the American Institute in Taiwan, America’s de facto embassy in Taiwan has explicitly rejected efforts to change Taiwan’s status quo. The move is paradoxical. While the US praises Taiwan for its democracy and states that the decisions to island’s future should be left to the people of Taiwan, it at the same time hopes to discourage the people of Taiwan from making a decision on their political future... Read More
America and the Asia PacificEnglishFebruary 2019International1 Comment 08 min read

American Opposition to a Referendum on Taiwanese Independence Should Not Surprise

Brian Hioe
A group of Republican senators recently called on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to invite Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen to speak at a session of the US Congress. However, this notion would be criticized by former AIT head Richard Bush, among others. Bush would later also criticize the notion of the holding a referendum on Taiwanese independence, something later backed up by comments from AIT stating that America would not be in support of a referendum... Read More
America and the Asia PacificEnglishFebruary 2019International0 Comments 010 min read

American Support for Taiwan Draws Parallel to Backing of Israel

Andi Kao
For organizers in Taiwan, the DPP’s commitment to justice must be questioned alongside any vision of transitional justice that fails to engage with the role of the US in propping up the authoritarian Chiang Kai-shek regime. Likewise, contrary to popular belief, American political support for Taiwan, similar to American support for Israel, is a deeply bipartisan position... Read More
America and the Asia PacificEnglishInternationalJanuary 20194 Comments 05 min read