Taiwan’s Sunflower Occupation
The students who have taken over Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan to fight a yet to-be ratified service trade agreement with China in what has come to be called the “sunflower occupation” have to be shaking...
View ArticleChina-Taiwan Relations Turning Sour
If indeed there had ever been a “Chiwan” on the horizon – a tighter relationship between China and Taiwan – it is fast receding, with Taipei affronting Beijing on almost weekly intervals, lately at...
View ArticleTaiwan Midterm Polls a Toss-Up
On Nov. 29, Taiwan’s 18 million voters will go to the polls for local elections, with pollsters and bookmakers differing on who’s in the lead and, as always, with the possibility that an unforeseen...
View ArticleTaiwan Heads for Election Season
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View ArticleTaiwan’s Presidency: Twilight for the Kuomintang?
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View ArticleTaiwanese Election: Referendum on the Mainland
With little more than three months until Taiwan’s presidential and legislative elections, the ruling Kuomintang’s leaders are still bickering and debating over whether they made the right choice last...
View ArticleXi-Ma Meeting to Bolster China’s Territorial Claims
The widespread feeling in Taipei is that the unprecedented Singapore meeting on Nov. 7 between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou may be an election ploy that won’t have...
View ArticleTaiwan: Political Predicament for the KMT, Dilemma for the DPP
With the first-ever meeting in Singapore on Nov. 7 between the leaders of the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China now a month old, the dust has settled enough to seek to assess its...
View ArticleTaiwan Electorate Appears Certain to Reject Beijing’s advances
On Jan 16, history appears to be in the making in Taiwan as citizens go to the polls to elect their president. Tsai Ing-wen, female candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has consistently...
View ArticleTaiwan Election: The Strait is Wide but the Emperor is Still too Close
The sweeping victory of Tsai Ing-wen and the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan’s Jan. 16 elections was far more than just a rejection of a divided Kuomintang and an indictment of the recent...
View ArticleChina-Taiwan Tunnel a Nonstarter, Taipei Says
The announcement last week in Beijing that China wants to build a 200-km tunnel to connect Taiwan to the mainland has been met with deep skepticism in Taiwan, with one critic suggesting the plan might...
View ArticleChina Pressures New Taiwan President on Unification
There is growing suspicion in Taiwan that China is trying to use commercial pressures by cutting back on tourism and fish imports to force the country’s new President, Tsai Ing-wen into acknowledging...
View ArticleTaiwan’s Outgoing President May Face Charges
If lawyers and civic groups have their way, Taiwan’s outgoing President Ma Ying-jeou, who leaves office today, (May 19) could well follow his predecessor, Chen Shui-bian, into prison. While Ma will be...
View ArticleExpect More China-Taiwan Tensions
With newly-sworn Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen wriggling around a Beijing demand that she verbally acknowledge the “1992 Consensus,” a cryptic version of the One China principle agreed by her...
View ArticleWill China Bullying Hurt Taiwan’s Economy?
Although relations across the Taiwan Strait are entering a new ice age, cooperation at a working level is likely to continue, with Beijing not wanting to alienate the taishang, the hundreds of...
View ArticleChina’s Latest Taiwan Strategy: Divide and Conquer
Beijing is continuing to tighten the screws on Taiwan, with China’s Taiwan Affairs Office Minister Zhang Zhijun now saying that China is only willing to cooperate with Taiwanese cities and counties...
View ArticleTaipei Leans Toward China Peace Deal
Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government, strangled by economic restrictions by Beijing, has unexpectedly begun endorsing the idea of inking a peace agreement with its archfoe, a dramatic...
View ArticleTrump’s Uncomfortable ‘Bargaining Chip’ Across the Strait
There can be little doubt that Taiwan is entering unsafe waters as a result of the sensational early-December telephone call between US President-elect Donald Trump and Taiwanese President Tsai...
View ArticleLong-Delayed Taiwan MTR Line Finally Opens
After 20 years of political trench warfare and a flawed tender process, travelers arriving at Taiwan’s main gateway, the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, will finally get a gleaming new train to...
View ArticleChina Declares All-out Diplomatic War on Taiwan
With its June 13 coup de foudre in switching Panama’s diplomatic ties from Taiwan to Beijing, China has set Taiwan firmly on the course toward internationally isolated pariahdom, a sudden burst of...
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