The KMT has hit out at the Kuma Academy as of late, with continued accusations over the Kuma Academy’s funding. The Kuma Academy is one of, but not the only, Taiwan’s civil defense training organizations...
The geopolitical effects of a testy exchange between US president Donald Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House are already being felt worldwide...
Taiwan reported record-high tax revenue for 2024, with 3.73 trillion NT in taxes collected. This is a larger windfall than expected, in that there were 497.2 billion NT more in taxes than budgeted for by the government. The extra revenue is due to strong exports, as well as stock gains because of market enthusiasm about artificial intelligence...
With strengthening relations between South Africa and China, reports indicate that South Africa has demanded that Taiwan move its representative office out of the capital of Pretoria. This may not be surprising, seeing as South Africa is often positioned alongside China as a member of the BRICS economic framework...
China announced a new round of military exercises around Taiwan, titled “Joint Sword-2024B”, this morning. This confirms, then, suspicions that the Chinese government would use Lai’s National Day address on October 10th as a pretext to launch military drills around Taiwan...
The KMT and TPP staged a walkout of a proposed motion by the DPP calling for a clarification of UN Resolution 2758 earlier this week. This took place despite the fact that the DPP had called for bipartisan support for the measure...
Perhaps the most noteworthy thing about the Qiao Collective’s “Taiwan: An Anti-Imperialist Perspective”, published in the Monthly Review, is to what extent it focuses on premodern history–and to what extent the Taiwanese people are absent from a history purportedly about them. This should not surprise for Qiao, but one still finds one’s self somewhat surprised that the Monthly Review allowed for the publication of a perspective on history that is clearly more cultural nationalist than Marxist...
The Lai administration will soon lift remaining restrictions on food imports from Fukushima disaster-affected Japanese prefectures. This includes Fukushima itself, as well as the prefectures of Chiba, Gunma, Ibaraki, and Tochigi...
