The strategy of Tsai Ing-Wen’s incoming administration would seem to be highly focused on signing free trade agreements in order to improve Taiwan’s international standing, including the TPP...
It is interesting to note that however counterintuitive it is to say, by the numbers, Taiwan is by no means a small country. But why is Taiwan thought of as small nonetheless?...
If recent polling from the United Daily News have indicated a significant increase in Taiwanese identification, what does this mean? We might take a look...
2016大選的戲劇性結果,或真讓台灣社會誤以為「國民黨倒了」、「台灣已是獨立的民主國家了」,若從國際上對「台灣」是否為獨立國家的態度進行檢視,結果肯定又是冷水一頭。台灣的多數住民都樂於支持「我們」能進一步成為主權獨立的國家───問題是「我們」是誰?Republic of China?Chinese Taipei?「我們」的本名不是Taiwan嗎?...
Lee Teng-Hui recently drew fire for calling for the localization and Taiwanization of the Republic of China, but claiming that there is no explicit need for Taiwanese independence in a recently published book. Do we see shifts in the discourse about independence/unification as reflected in Lee’s statements?...
The recent deal between Japan and Korea reached on the historical issue of comfort women is probably an attempt to cement relations in the face of the threat of China...