Book review: Bates Gill’s Rising Star Despite all the alarmist rhetoric coming from the Pentagon and a handful of conservative think tanks, ...

The missile blunder A lot has already been written about the erroneous shipment, a little more than a year-and-a-half ago, of ICBM nose cone...

Washington conservatives strike again In an article published today in the Taipei Times , I once again turn to the reflex of US conservative...

Canada and the recognition of Kosovo Ottawa joined a number of capitals last week in officially recognizing Kosovo as a country. Unlike most...

The BBC mucks up on Tibet, Taiwan The following is a letter I sent to the BBC Web site in response to an article published on Thursday, Marc...

Germany’s logic on Tibet “A boycott of the Olympic Games, as some have demanded ... would only penalize the athletes and those who have been...

AFP creates a moral equivalence in the Taiwan Strait In a piece posted on Sunday, Agence France Presse (AFP) painted the portrait of Yeh Chu...

Hau Lung-bin on Israel Attending an exhibition titled The 60th Anniversary of Israel — Birth of a State Photo Exhibitions of Paul Goldman an...

Pyongyang’s joke With the presidential election in Taiwan approaching, the number of countries that have voiced reservations concerning the ...

Language and the “terror threat” One reason why intelligence agencies will never run out of work isn’t the bottomless source of threats, but...

Altruistic or interested? In a short piece published in the Taipei Times on Feb. 27 I raise the question as to whether the segment of US ac...

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...