A New York Times correspondent, Vivian Wang, has been expelled from China after the newspaper published an interview with Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te...
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.”...
Premier Cho Jung-tai has again refused to countersign legislation advanced by the KMT-controlled legislature. This is regarding three bills: the Act Governing the Settlement of Ill-gotten Properties by Political Parties and Their Affiliate Organizations, the Organic Law of the Legislative Yuan, and the Satellite Broadcasting Act...
Premier Cho Jung-tai to countersign legislation on military dependents’ villages yesterday. This is the second time in history that a premier of the Executive Yuan has refused to countersign legislation passed by the Legislative Yuan...
The first hearing on impeachment proceedings against Lai Ching-te took place earlier this week. The move to impeach Lai takes place as part of Taiwan’s mounting series of constitutional crises. Among the many crises are the Executive Yuan’s refusal to countersign revenue allocation legislation to local governments passed by the KMT-controlled legislature, the currently frozen Constitutional Court, and the Executive Yuan’s framing efforts by the pan-Blue camp to roll back the Tsai administration’s pension reforms...
The US capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has led to warnings that the unprecedented action could allow for further actions by China directed at Taiwan. That is, the US has now normalized the extrajudicial capture of a standing president, shortly after opening hostilities with Venezuela, without any declaration of war...
Taiwan's ongoing constitutional crisis remains unresolved, as the impasse about the Executive Yuan refusing to sign a fiscal allocation bill passed by the Legislativ/e Yuan continues...
