KMT chair Cheng Li-wun met with Chinese President Xi Jinping today in Beijing. The meeting took place as part of a six-day trip by Cheng to China that started on April 7th...
A new Chinese law that codifies ethnic policy under the rule of Xi Jinping has led to warnings that its passage will lead to further repression against Taiwan...
A recent article by Paweł Wargan and Jason Hickel published by the Progressive International is adulatory about what it claims to be “whole-process democracy” in China. Nevertheless, interrogating the claims of the article finds that these claims to be in themselves contradictory...
China's air incursions dropped to zero earlier this month for close to a two-week period, leading to questions as to why that had taken place. Reflective of the media discourse of today, in which hot takes prevail, there was immediately a large wave of rampant speculation on the Internet. Chinese air incursions into Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone–the airspace in which aircraft identify themselves for security purposes–have increased to a near-daily basis since the August 2022 visit to Taiwan by then-US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi...
An exchange between the CCP and KMT, framed as paving the way for further cooperation between the two parties, was held earlier this week. This took the form of what was termed a think tank forum...
The Chinese government has continued to purge senior military officials. The latest round of purges leaves Chinese president Xi Jinping in sole operational control of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), with General Zhang Youxia and General Liu Zhengli placed under investigation over apparent violations. The fall from grace of the two generals has taken many by surprise, particularly as Zhang was a personal friend of Xi...
A recent interview by the Director of the Czech Military Intelligence Agency, General Petr Bartovský, with Czech Public Radio stated that China sought to intimidate Taiwanese vice president Hsiao Bikhim during a visit by Hsiao to Prague in March 2024...
Today we bring you photos from yesterday's commemoration of the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in Liberty Plaza from contributor PS...
A recent piece by Kaiser Kuo arguing for the fundamental difference between western and Chinese political systems proves the usual, facile apologism for authoritarianism from Kuo. And yet it is not a particularly sophisticated one either–it is the usual reaching for nationalist abstraction, tautological logic, and cherry-picking that one has come to expect from Kuo...
A recent visit to Taiwan by a Chinese student delegation organized by the Ma Ying-jeou Foundation has drawn controversy. The delegation includes several Chinese athletes, such as table tennis player Ma Long, a participant in the Olympics. Namely, the delegation has been protested on a number of occasions. Otherwise, statements by the students provoked public outrage...
