It’s time for asymmetric warfare In an article appearing in the May 21, 2007, issue of the Taipei Times , I take the discussion on Taiwan’s ...

Behind the red veil in Beijing As many readers will probably know by now, Taiwan’s application for membership at the World Health Organizati...

Thinking for an old world In its rejection e-mail, a certain Canadian newspaper (hint: it is a pro-business, right-of-center publication) to...

A need to prioritize Facing relentless pressure from Beijing, many Taiwanese pundits have made the claim that Taiwan is making a mistake by ...

How the US is sparking an arms race in North East Asia In a time when countries all over the globe feel the need to genuflect at the Washing...

Update A week has now passed since my article “Why Celil doesn’t stand a chance” was published in the Taipei Times (see “The forgotten Cana...

The forgotten Canadian I would never have thought that writing an op-ed in the Taipei Times would result in my being interviewed, 12 hours ...

Asking the wrong question The Canadian Parliament yesterday turned down a motion, by 150 votes to 134, by the Liberal opposition requesting ...

As expected The history of public intellectuals facing personal attacks, and sometimes threats to their safety, is, sadly, a long one. Indiv...

Manicheans in Ottawa Parallel to the ongoing debate in the US over troop withdrawal from Iraq, Ottawa has been going through a similar proce...

The insidious language of victimhood News broke out last week that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) had been using Palestinians as human shi...

The Wan-an air drill Nothing serves to remind one that Taiwan faces the constant threat of a military attack than the Wan-an ("everythi...

The Threatened Democracy A few weeks ago, the senior editor of the Features section at the Taipei Times asked me to write a review of a new...

Taiwan's new "anti-terrorism" bill The Taiwanese Cabinet last week submitted a revised "anti-terrorism" bill that sh...

Thursday Afternoon in Taipei On of the perks of working as an editor for a newspaper is that my work schedule is from 15:30 until 22:00, whi...

Empty Rhetoric in Politics Diplomacy, it seems, is as much damage control as it is the substantial fashioning of relationships between state...

Remembering the 228 Incident Sixty years ago, on Feb. 28, 1947, began what would lead to the slaughter of between 20,000 and 30,000 Taiwanes...

Signs of failure Despite US President George W. Bush’s constant declarations to the effect that al-Qaeda has been weakened by the “war on te...

How not to win Amid rising fears — as it does every year around this time — of a new Taliban “spring offensive” against NATO troops in Afgha...

A sound signal, with a caveat The ruling last week by the Supreme Court of Canada that the antiterrorism provision allowing the authorities ...