It seems highly likely that KMT city mayors will pursue a strategy of carrying out city-level exchanges with China going forward, a model originally pioneered by Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je that Kaohsiung mayor-elect Han Kuo-yu has also taken up. However, some DPP mayors may also be tempted to do the same, as observed in the example of Tainan mayor-elect Huang Wei-che expressing public interest in visiting China much like Ko or Han...
Taiwan can breathe a sigh of relief after the Trump-Xi meeting which took place on the sidelines of the G-20 conference in Argentina on Saturday. Namely, Taiwan did not come up in any substantive manner during the meeting, with economic tensions between America and China being the main object of negotiation between Trump and Xi...
International views of 2018 local elections in Taiwan, unsurprisingly, have in many cases skewed towards the assessment that China may have been the ultimate victor in nine-in-one elections. The KMT is very likely to leverage on this fact in the near future, to try and push for a new round of efforts to facilitate exchanges with China by way of the city-based exchange model pioneered by Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je. This would be a means of circumventing the central authority of the Tsai administration...
A major public controversy has broken out after Fu Yue, the director of the winning film for best documentary at this year’s Golden Horse Awards, tearfully declared on stage that she hoped one day to see Taiwan recognized as a politically independent entity...
New residency permits issued by China for Taiwanese living, working, and studying in China have raised ire in Taiwan, with some urging legal repercussions for those that apply for use of such cards...
The American government sailing two destroyers through the Taiwan Straits last week has been interpreted by some in Taiwan as a continued sign of stronger American support for Taiwan under president Donald Trump. However, some skepticism is in order...
Live-fire exercises conducted by China are not, as some international media has mistakenly reported, anything new. But they are cause for some concern nonetheless...
With the recent removal of term limits that a Chinese president can serve, possibly paving the way for Chinese president Xi Jinping to move towards lifetime rule, bluster by China against Taiwan has increased...
The passage of the Taiwan Travel Act has been hailed as a triumph by pro-Taiwan groups in the US as representing a step forward in advancing US-Taiwan relations. On the other hand, media coverage of the passage of the Taiwan Travel Act by western media has oftentimes acted as though the move is dangerously provocative of China. Both polarized positions may miss part of the point...
