Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen recently made use of a Lunar New Year gala held with prominent Taiwanese business leaders normally based in China to declare that Taiwanese businesses should return their manufacturing and production to Taiwan from China. But how likely is this to actually take place?...
Concerns have been raised that a recent incident involving an Air New Zealand flight not being allowed to land in China and having to turn back because of paperwork referring to Taiwan signify a new measure taken by the Chinese government to crack down on companies that do not take the view that Taiwan is part of China...
As Taiwanese NGO worker Lee Ming-che approaches his 700th day in jail, Chinese actions to retaliate against his family for efforts to continue to advocate for his release have escalated...
Given the need for Taiwanese chips in important technologies like the black box for avionics technology, it was once argued that the world’s dependence on Taiwan was argued to compel intervention if the Taiwanese economy is disrupted due to military threats. However, what has happened since then?...
Speculation about who will run in 2020 presidential elections has already begun in Taiwan. Perhaps this is unsurprising. Presidential elections will likely take place in January of next year, meaning that elections are scarcely a year away...
Tensions between the US, Canada, and China have continued to escalate in the past month, with China sentencing Canadian citizen Robert Lloyd Schellenberg to the death penalty for drug smuggling in mid-January...
Controversy erupted earlier this month after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Twitter account shared an article from far right-wing media outlet Breitbart...
A series of child abuse cases has rocked Taiwanese society in the past month, with a number of incidents widely reported on in the media. However, calls to simply increase legal punishments for child abuse, including the suggestion to use capital punishment for cases of child abuse, fail to address the root of the problem ...
Over the past few weeks, there have been multiple cases of high-profile physical violence in Taiwan, ranging from the case of the abuse of a wife and son by a father to the assault on Minister of Culture Cheng Li-chiun by an entertainer. In both of these high profile cases, certain levels of “vigilante justice” through violence have been argued as justified, despite a general public consensus against acts of physical violence in Taiwan. What do these cases say about Taiwan society as a whole?...