A return to the past in Kosovo While Kosovo's "declaration of independence" on Sunday may be feted by those who, like Taiwan, ...

Israel's twin dynamics Syria and Iran announced yesterday that they would conduct a joint investigation into the car bombing on Wednesda...

What Mugniyeh’s assassination means The assassination of the former head of Hezbollah’s External Security Organization (or Foreign Security ...

Cheers for Mr. Spielberg Renowned filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s announcement today that he was bowing out of his participation in the Beijing...

Movie Review: Charlie Wilson’s War Readers may wonder why Afghanistan, seven years after the US and its allies bumped out the Taliban, remai...

Welcome to Beijing’s world, Malawi Malawi’s switching relations from Taipei to Beijing on Jan. 14 is already having repercussions on the liv...

Beyond the kickbacks and rapprochement The Defense News Web site dropped a bombshell of sorts this week with an article on the possible ram...

Beijing gains leverage on Canada If we ever needed an example of the kind of influence Beijing has on the behavior of democratic governments...

Book Review: Bernard D. Cole's Taiwan's Security Soon after coming to power in 2000, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) launched...

Could this be Tonkin redux in the Strait of Hormuz? It is much too early to make a formal assessment of the incident early on Sunday in whic...

Irresponsible fearmongering at the NSB As if the build-up to the presidential election next year were not chaotic enough, National Security ...

The NSB wasn't at fault over '101gate' Although security at Taipei 101 may have been put to shame by Austrian base jumper Felix ...

The many whys behind the ‘Kitty Hawk’ incident In “The method in Beijing’s madness,” an article I published today in the Taipei Times , I ex...

“A blow below the belt” The issuance on Monday of a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), a consensus document involving the 16 intelligence...

On condition of anonymity In an article published in the Taipei Times today, I look at the factors behind the growing presence of "ano...

Language and the Middle East 'peace' talks Readers of this Web site are by now aware that an issue I keep revisiting is that of the ...

‘Brothers so sorely tired’ The Red Cross and the Red Crescent estimate that 900,000 Bangladeshi families are in immediate need of humanitari...

Our moral nakedness: a response Adar Primor’s piece in the Nov. 6 edition of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz does a good job analyzing the un...

To war, one step at a time The timing of the Interpol general assembly voting on whether to put five Iranians and a Lebanese on “red” notice...

Foreign nationals threatened In a short opinion piece published today in the Taipei Times , I argue that China's insistence that health-...