In a surprise, former Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je, who is the presidential candidate of the TPP, has expressed support for passing the CSSTA. Since this came to light, the KMT and presidential candidate Hou You-yi has also come out in support of reviving the CSSTA, though the KMT would be playing catch-up with Ko...
In a recent interview with Taiwan’s Central News Agency, Thailand’s Move Forward party leader Pita Limjaroenrat stated that Taiwan inspired a number of his policy platforms...
Recent comments by US House of Representatives member Seth Moulton suggested that the US should destroy TSMC facilities in the event of a Chinese invasion. Moulton’s comments were later seized on, mostly by pan-Blue media, to suggest the unreliability of the US as an ally. Since then, Moulton has claimed that the comments were selectively clipped...
In comments made earlier this week, New Taipei mayor Hou You-yi expressed opposition to both Taiwanese independence and Beijing’s “One Country, Two Systems.” This is among the clearest articulation of a cross-strait stance by the New Taipei mayor to date, with Hou angling for the presidential nomination of the KMT. Otherwise, Hou committed to the defense of the ROC, which includes Matsu, Kinmen, and Penghu...
News broke over the weekend that Li Yanhe, the editor-in-chief of Gusa Publishing, had been detained in China. Li is a Chinese national, but is married to a Taiwanese person, and has resided in Taiwan since 2009. It is thought that Li is currently held under conditions resembling house arrest...
A February article by Michael Swaine of the Quincy Institute in The National Interest, entitled “The Worrisome Erosion of the One China Policy”, proves a fanciful excursion into proposing a grand solution for current US-China tensions over Taiwan...
China has once again begun carrying out military exercises in response to a meeting between a Taiwanese president and a US Speaker of the House. In this case, on Saturday, China announced three days of military exercises following the meeting that took place between US Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy and Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday in California...
Former president Ma Ying-jeou of the KMT set out for a twelve-day trip to China on Monday. This proves Ma’s first trip to China, though Ma previously met with Chinese president Xi Jinping in Singapore in November 2015...
Honduras and Taiwan officially broke ties today after several weeks of speculation. This began after Honduran president Xiomara Castro announced on March 14th her government’s intention to break ties with Taiwan and establish ties with China, stating that she had instructed Honduras’ foreign minister to begin this process...
A recent press conference held by a number of senior left-wing scholars, calling for an “anti-war” stance for Taiwan, proved an exercise in not only naivete about China but profound US-centrism–that is, a preoccupation with the US and western powers and failure to see the world outside of a Euro-American framework...
