In his National Day address, President Lai Ching-te focused to an unusual extent on the economy. Cross-strait issues were brought up, but only near the tail end of the speech...
A recent speech by Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung proves a point of departure for the Lai administration when it comes to cross-strait discourse, as well as understandings of ROC sovereignty. The speech took place at the ILA-ASIL Asia-Pacific Research Forum, a legal conference attended by fifty experts from twenty countries, which took place in Taipei...
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...
KMT chair Johnny Chiang rejected suggestions that the party was considering changing its name last week, with signs of a growing internal split in the KMT. Chiang was asked about the issue after the party passed a resolution to seek to reestablish formal diplomatic ties between the ROC and the US. The resolution surprised, because of the KMT’s historical advocacy of unification between Taiwan and China...
The KMT National Congress, which took place over the weekend, led to the party reemphasizing its commitment to the institutions of the ROC and the 1992 Consensus as the core values of the party. As such, the results of the National Congress indicate that the KMT intends to stay the course where cross-strait policy is concerned...
Sometimes minor differences—even just a single word—can have deep implications with regards to how we discuss Taiwan's political status. We might take a look...
News that Burkina Faso has broken ties with the Republic of China has provoked ire in Taiwan over China’s poaching of its few remaining diplomatic allies. Nevertheless, it is also important to note that the effects of such diplomatic poaching will probably accomplish the exact opposite of what China hopes it will do...
