The Taiwanese navy recently concluded three days of drills, which are held annually before the Lunar New Year as a means of reassuring the public about its capacity to counter Chinese threats...
In his New Year's address, President Lai Ching-te touted Taiwan’s accomplishments on the international stage, such as the Olympics victories in badminton by Wang Chi-lin and Lee Yang, as well as in boxing by Lin Yu-ting. Lai also brought up Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue winning best work in translation at the United States National Book Award, as translated by King Lin. Likewise, Lai touted Taiwan’s economic growth, including in high-tech industries, and increases in wages...
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 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...
Comments by former president Ma Ying-jeou at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center largely continued the KMT’s familiar lines of attack on the DPP. Still, it is significant to what extent the KMT now leans into views of the CCP through a rose-tinted lens...
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...
President Lai Ching-te indicated an openness to nuclear energy in an unusual set of remarks earlier this month. Lai stated that his administration did not rule out the use of advanced nuclear technology, but that this would only proceed on the basis of social consensus...
The possibility of Taiwan restoring diplomatic relations with Honduras has been floated after the idea was floated by former vice president, Salvador Nasralla, who is running as a candidate in the 2025 Honduran presidential elections...
The Lai administration will soon lift remaining restrictions on food imports from Fukushima disaster-affected Japanese prefectures. This includes Fukushima itself, as well as the prefectures of Chiba, Gunma, Ibaraki, and Tochigi...
