Taiwan continues to find itself enmeshed in questionable political alignments, with a recent tweet by President Lai Ching-te congratulating Indian President Narendra Modi on his presidential victory. Modi later responded to this tweet by thanking Lai...
Civil society groups held a press conference earlier this month to call for justice for miners involved in disasters that took place in 1984. This included the Taiwan Labour Front as well as the Taiwan Association for Human Rights...
Hongkongers and allies demonstrated in Taiwan this afternoon to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the 2019 protests in Hong Kong. This was termed “Freedom June.” The protest was bookended by rain at its start and beginning, with heavy rain warnings issued across Taiwan today...
Taiwan was again not invited to the World Health Assembly, the governing body of the World Health Organization, this year. This is despite a bid by Taiwan to secure admittance to the World Health Assembly as an observer, as previously took place when the Ma administration was in power. Nevertheless, Taiwan is currently excluded from the World Health Assembly as a result of Chinese pressure...
The DPP has stated that it will seek a constitutional interpretation against infrastructure bills that the KMT intends to push through with. The bills are primarily advanced under the auspices of KMT legislative caucus convener Fu Kun-chi, who has framed the bills as to benefit his home constituency of Hualien and areas of Taiwan’s east coast that have historically lacked resources compared to urban areas. This takes place in the same timeframe as the Executive Yuan calling for the Legislative Yuan to reconsider the legislative powers that the KMT is hoping to obtain, with the Executive Yuan framing them as unconstitutional, and the DPP also suggesting that it will seek constitutional interpretation...
Attempts by China to pressure Taiwan economically continue, with China announcing the end of preferential tariffs for 134 products imported from Taiwan. These products include base oils used for lubricants, bicycles, and textiles produced in Taiwan...
Today we bring you photos from yesterday's commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in Liberty Plaza from contributor PS...
Demonstrators gathered in Liberty Plaza in Taipei tonight to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. According to organizers, by around 7:30 PM, there were 2,000 participants in the demonstration...
Taiwan has distanced itself from the Israel-Gaza conflict since the very beginning of the Gaza war. Namely, Taiwan’s callouts to Gaza are few and far between...
In the wake of Lai Ching-te’s presidential inauguration a number of Taiwanese entertainers that work in the Chinese market have made statements expressing their opposition to Taiwanese independence. This has often taken the form of entertainers reposting statements from Chinese state-run outlet CGTV...