The Lai administration has moved to expand bans on Taiwanese government officials traveling to China to participate in the annual Straits Forum, traditionally a venue for signaling between the CCP and KMT...
Civil society groups demonstrated outside of DPP headquarters late last month, in protest against the Lai administration’s failure to live up to campaign promises to build social housing. In particular, civil society groups criticized the Lai administration for promising to build 130,000 units of social housing during elections, then quietly revising this down to 40,000 units...
Thousands demonstrated on Sunday against the KMT’s cuts to defense spending, which reduced spending from 1.25 trillion NT to 780 billion NT. The main organizer of the demonstration was the Economic Democracy Union, the politically progressive social movement organization that played a key role in the 2014 Sunflower Movement and 2024 Bluebird Movement...
A recent argument between Presidential Office secretary-general Pan Meng-an and KMT legislator Weng Hsiao-ling in the legislature reminds of how Taiwan’s constitutional crisis continues...
An attempt by the KMT and TPP to impeach President Lai Ching-te failed earlier this week. This was not surprising, seeing as the two parties did not have the votes to impeach Lai. As such, the impeachment was defeated...
Paraguayan President Santiago Peña visited Taiwan in early May, reaffirming ties between the two countries. Paraguay is, at present, Taiwan’s only remaining South American ally...
A report by the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence states that China does not intend to invade Taiwan in 2027. The report, which is the Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community, takes the view that China does not have a fixed timeline for achieving unification and that China is more likely to continue with efforts to achieve unification that do not require military force. Instead, the report states that China is more likely to try to achieve unification by the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, which is in 1947, as part of aspirations to achieve “national rejuvenation.”...
In an unusual move, earlier this month, the Chinese government made an offer of energy security to Taiwan in return for giving up sovereignty and agreeing to Chinese rule. This was, of course, immediately turned down by the Lai administration, given that this would mean agreeing to annexation...
