It is possible that Taiwan will soon have a surplus of vaccines on its hands. As international consensus has increasingly moved towards the view that booster shots will be necessary, the Tsai administration has made preparations to secure booster shots for Taiwan...
Nicaragua has announced that it will be severing relations with Taiwan, following a televised speech by Nicaraguan Minister of Foreign Affairs Denis Moncada. During the speech, Moncada asserted that there is only one China, which is the PRC, and that this includes Taiwan...
Efforts to vaccinate undocumented migrant workers or migrant workers who have left their employers and overstayed their visas in Taiwan are likely to encounter difficulties after police arrested a migrant worker from the Philippines who had overstayed her visa. This took place after she went to be vaccinated, despite promises by the Central Epidemic Command Center that undocumented migrant workers who wish to be vaccinated can do so without fear of arrest...
A criminal suspect surnamed Huang who fled to China from Taiwan earlier this month will be extradited in an agreement between Taiwan and China. The deportation proves an unusual incident at a time in which cross-strait relations between Taiwan and China are poor, probably signaling that the Chinese government did not think it could gain anything politically from the incident...
Two months after Germans went to the polls, a new coalition has finally been agreed to, made up of parliament members of the Socialist Democratic Party of German, the Green Party, and the Free Democratic Party. Nicknamed the “Traffic Light Coalition,” due to the fact that the colors of each party resemble the colors of traffic lights in Germany (Red, Green, and Yellow); Taiwan was specifically mentioned in their coalition statement...
The Chinese government has hit back against Lithuania from strengthening ties with Taiwan through the unprecedented move of blocking all exports from Lithuania. Reportedly, China has delisted Lithuania as a country of origin, as a result of which Lithuanian goods cannot clear customs...
Independent legislator Freddy Lim will face a recall vote in January, following the recall petition against him clearing the necessary benchmarks. The date of the recall has been set for January 9th. Lim represents the Zhongzheng and Wanhua districts of Taipei...
Xiomara Castro, the leftist presidential candidate of the Liberty and Refoundation Party, has won in the Honduran presidential elections. The presidential elections took place on November 28th, with Castro up against Nasry Asfura of the currently ruling National Party...
The Chinese government recently announced that it would be downgrading relations with Lithuania, in withdrawing its ambassador from the eastern European nation. Following this, China will no longer continue to conduct relations at the ambassador level with Lithuania...
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je has sought to tout his TaipeiPASS system as a remedy to many of Taiwan’s COVID-19 woes...
