Confirmation hearings for Elbridge Colby, the Trump administration’s nominee for undersecretary of defense, are underway. The confirmation hearings have attracted a great deal of attention due to Colby’s past views on Taiwan...
The geopolitical effects of a testy exchange between US president Donald Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House are already being felt worldwide...
An exchange in which Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky was upbraided by US president Donald Trump and vice president JD Vance will likely be watched carefully in Taiwan. Zelensky was criticized for not being sufficiently thankful for US support and accused of starting the war...
With the Trump administration having now been in office for around one month, the spillover effects on Taiwanese domestic politics are being felt in a number of ways...
The Biden administration surprised over the weekend, issuing a statement on Taiwan on Sunday in response to an incursion of Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone by thirteen Chinese warplanes on Saturday. The statement expressed “concern” regarding “the pattern of ongoing PRC attempts to intimidate its neighbors, including Taiwan"...
On January 9, outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that all restrictions on official contacts with Taiwanese officials were terminated. Applause radiated from Taipei. Joseph Wu, writing for Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, thanked the Secretary and Congress for the lifting of restrictions on the US-Taiwan relationship...
The presidential inauguration of Joe Biden took place earlier today. The inauguration took place after several turbulent weeks that saw some Republican members of Congress attempt to invalidate the results of 2020 presidential elections, an attempted invasion of the US Capitol to prevent the confirmation of the electoral vote by Trump supporters, and the impeachment of then-president Donald Trump after the US Capitol storming...
A planned visit to Taiwan by America’s ambassador to the UN, Kelly Craft, was abruptly canceled earlier today. Diplomatic visits by other members of the Trump administration, including a planned visit by American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Belgium, were also canceled...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the lifting of self-imposed restrictions on contacts between the American and Taiwanese governments earlier today in a move that took many by surprise...
With less than two weeks left before the transition of power between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the Trump administration surprised on Wednesday by announcing that Kelly Craft, America’s ambassador to the UN, will visit Taiwan. The trip was announced by American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo...
