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 issue of ractopamine-treated pork imports continues to be a contested one in Taiwan. The Tsai administration made moves to lift limits on imports of pork treated with ractopamine from the US in September, with the aim of securing a bilateral trade agreement between Taiwan and the US...
Taiwan recorded another two cases of domestic transmission of COVID-19 earlier this week, after a doctor and his partner, a nurse who works at the same hospital in northern Taiwan, were both confirmed as infected with COVID-19...
In response to the arrest of three former Demosisto members in Hong Kong, the Tsai administration has announced new measures to assist Hongkongers seeking residency in Taiwan. Yet these new measures are unlikely to help young Hong Kong activists such as the Demosisto trio...
The KMT has continued to militate against the DPP on the issue of the Tsai administration’s decision to lift restrictions on imports of American pork into Taiwan. In the KMT’s latest protest action last week, the KMT threw pig guts and intestines at Premier Su Tseng-chang during a report to the legislature. Some scuffling also took place between pan-Green and pan-Blue legislators during the report...
The Ta Kung Pao, a Hong Kong-based pro-Beijing newspaper, reported over the last week that the Chinese government is planning on creating a list of individuals of Taiwanese independence advocates that it will seek to imprison...
Concerns have been raised in Taiwan regarding Taiwan’s exclusion from the recently inked RCEP, a regional multilateral free trade pact linking fifteen economies. The deal was signed on Sunday at the biannual ASEAN Summit, which was held in Vietnam this year, though much of the summit proceedings took place online because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic...