It should have proven of little surprise when Taiwan found itself on the US Department of Labor’s list of goods believed to be produced by forced labor for the first time late last month...
Constitutional reform is set to take center stage as a leading issue in the current legislative session, with a number of key issues on the table. However, it is less clear what the ultimate results of constitutional reform will be, given conflicting and irreconcilable imperatives between the pan-Green and pan-Blue camps...
“A career with five great photographs would be pretty good...” said Richard Avedon, “...[Henri Cartier-Bresson has] hundreds of them!”. This emphatic statement is not an exaggeration, as Cartier-Bresson is easily one of the greatest photographers of his generation, and one of the great artists of the twentieth century. It is quite a privilege to walk through the galleries of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and be in the presence of the great master’s work....
The KMT surprised yesterday by proposing two resolutions that passed unanimously in the Legislative Yuan, in a rare show of bipartisanship in Taiwanese electoral politics...
DPP legislators Fan Yun and Chang Jui-hsiung recently called for the requirement that elected officials swear their oaths to a portrait of Sun Yat-sen to be dropped. Unsurprisingly, this has prompted backlash from KMT legislators such as Chen Yixin, who accused this of being the DPP’s latest effort to erase symbols of the ROC...
A recent report by the Jamestown Foundation suggested that the Chinese government had begun introducing Xinjiang-style “militarized vocational training” to Tibet, with thousands of Tibetans having passed through such training programs. The report states that over 500,000 Tibetans have passed through such programs—a not insignificant number, seeing as the global Tibetan population is thought to be around 6.5 million...