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...
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...
US president Donald Trump alarmed after comments suggesting that he would decide whether to suspend arms sales to Taiwan after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in April...
The KMT and TPP advanced several controversial bills in the legislature last week, setting a precedent for what comes next in the new year. It should be clear that the KMT and TPP intend to continue their scorched-earth approach to politics, particularly as contention between the pan-Blue-controlled legislature and DPP-controlled executive continues...
A recent Substack post by Christian Whiton, an advisor to the Bush and Trump administrations, proves an odd fever dream about Taiwan. Even if not framed in such terms, the gist of Whiton’s argument about Taiwan is, in effect, that the Trump administration’s recent actions directed toward Taiwan are driven by a lack of faith in Taiwan because of its embrace of the woke Left...
