A secret deal between Taiwan and Australia to treat refugees from Nauru denied admittance to Australia by the Turnbull government proves a shameful episode of complicity by Taiwan in the human rights abuses of the Australian and Nauran governments...
Anger has broken out from a number of Korean progressives at American liberals for their reactions to the Trump-Kim summit. Namely, American liberals are seen as prioritizing sniping at Trump over establishing peace on the Korean Peninsula. Such outrage is all too familiar for Taiwan...
It will prove difficult trying to evaluate what the effects of the meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and American president Donald Trump will be going forward...
The opening of the new American Institute in Taiwan complex in Neihu was largely a non-event today. Apart from being overshadowed by the Trump-Kim summit that took place concurrently in Singapore, the building move signals little about any shift in American policy on Taiwan, regardless of boilerplate talk by American and Taiwanese policymakers...
China's stratagem to force airlines to remove mention of “Taiwan” as a separate country on their websites seems to have been a largely successful one. This can be observed in microcosm with the example of Qantas Airlines, an Australian airline which initially resisted impositions by China, but even buckled...
A recent visit by high-ranking KMT officials to Xiamen to conduct the tenth annual Straits Forum this week indicates the KMT’s fundamental disrespect of the institutions of Taiwanese democracy. This is nothing surprising...
News that Burkina Faso has broken ties with the Republic of China has provoked ire in Taiwan over China’s poaching of its few remaining diplomatic allies. Nevertheless, it is also important to note that the effects of such diplomatic poaching will probably accomplish the exact opposite of what China hopes it will do...
Much uncertainty prevails about what will be next for the two Koreas seeing as, last week, American president Donald Trump called off a planned meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un originally slated to take place in Singapore on June 12th. Yet Trump now suggests the meeting could still take place. This raises broader questions for the region at large...
The decision by an Australian city council earlier this month to remove the words “Taiwan” and colors resembling those of the ROC flag from fish artwork on a bull statue in the city of Rockhampton in Central Queensland by Taiwanese-born high schoolers proves a telling incident...