South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law in South Korea last night, claiming that the opposition Democratic Party was working with North Korea in order to undermine him...
After six times in which the KMT blocked the national budget for next year, the two parties have finally come to an agreement. As such, a consensus seems to have been reached on the budget...
The Lai administration has continued to be strategically ambiguous regarding nuclear energy. In comments to Bloomberg late last month, Premier Cho Jung-tai expressed a willingness to use nuclear energy to meet energy demands for AI. It is expected that Taiwan may play a key role in the growing AI sector, particularly regarding the use of chips, seeing as Taiwan already plays a preeminent role in global semiconductor manufacturing. Cho stated that as long as there was social consensus on nuclear energy, particularly regarding the disposal of nuclear waste, that it was fine to proceed...
The DPP has suggested that it may seek a constitutional interpretation over the KMT’s efforts to block the national budget for next year. The KMT has now voted down the national budget five times in a row...
The Chinese government has rejected a call by the Lai administration to establish a new cross-strait framework. The move by the Lai administration is significant...
Lai Ching-te delivered the first National Day address of his presidency today. Very little surprised about the speech, in that Lai made no surprising statements on Taiwan’s sovereignty or about Taiwan’s relationship with China. What one does observe from Lai’s speech, however, is the contours of a new historical perspective bridging adherence to the ROC and the resistance against authoritarianism that occurred in the course of Taiwan’s democratization...
President Lai Ching-te surprised with a speech over the weekend at a National Day concert held at the Taipei Dome. The concert is the opening event for National Day celebrations in Taiwan...
A long-anticipated ruling on capital punishment from the Constitutional Court yesterday did not result in the abolishment of the death penalty. Instead, the use of the death penalty is restricted to severe cases, such as involving murder...
Appointments to the Constitutional Court are likely to be fought between the pan-Blue camp and DPP in the coming months. Namely, the terms of seven of the fifteen justices are set to end in October...
