US-Taiwan relations

A Return to “One China” for Cheng Li-wun?

Brian Hioe
Recent comments in an online interview by KMT chair Cheng Li-wun, shortly after her travels to the US and China, prove bizarre. Specifically, Cheng doubled down on the view that Taiwan and China both belong to “One China.” Cheng claimed that this is the “status quo” and that the DPP is seeking to establish a “new ‘two-state’ theory,” while suggesting that there was no other alternative to her view. Otherwise, Cheng continued to double down on the 1992 Consensus as the bedrock for cross-strait relations...
Cross StraitEnglishInternationalJanuary 2026Politics4 min read

Will Dependency on the US Be Questioned in Taiwan After Iran?

Brian Hioe
A Truth Social post by US President Donald Trump drew widespread condemnation after Trump threatened that “a whole civilization” would die if Iran did not comply with US demands to surrender. In the same post, Trump incongruously stated “God Bless the Great People of Iran”, as well as touted “Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized people prevail”....
America and the Asia PacificApril 2026EnglishInternational5 min read

Time Magazine Calls for Appeasement on Taiwan in the Name of Peace

Brian Hioe
A recent trio of articles in Time Magazine has led to backlash in Taiwan, particularly seeing as the three articles frame current Taiwanese president Lai Ching-te as being dangerously pro-independence. The three articles are by thinktank analyst Lyle Goldstein, retired People’s Liberation Army senior colonel Zhou Bo, and Time editor Charlie Campbell...
EnglishInternationalPoliticsRegional Tensions5 min read