Israel's war on academics Stephen M. Walt and John J. Mearsheimer’s The Israel Lobby is an extremely important and cannily argued expos...

Setting the record straight Some readers have reacted to my piece “Why are we sending aid to China?” published in the Taipei Times on May 2...

Asia's grand chessboard “The thing you have to understand,” a senior official at the Indian Ministry of External Affairs said of China a...

Is financial help to China helpful? The devastation caused by the powerful earthquake that hit Sichuan Province last week is undoubtedly sho...

Criminals, terrorists all too human I had the great pleasure yesterday morning of attending a lecture by Chin Ko-lin, the reputed scholar of...

Special advisers: good or bad? President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) was all but forced to abandon the use of special advisers after a sustained ca...

The CCP's thirst for survival Following the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 199...

Who will remember the Catastrophe? Israeli President Shimon Peres proudly announced yesterday that a group of top personalities would attend...

Ma’s struggle for leadership Critics of president-elect Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) have long derided (if not ...

Sounding the alarm I began the draft of my book on Canadian security intelligence two days after I resigned from the Canadian Security Intel...

New stock phrase On several occasions in recent months, this site and others — Michael Turton’s The View From Taiwan spearheading the effort...

Book Review: Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam after Iraq Michael Scheuer Free Press, 364pp Former CIA officer Michael Scheuer’s first...

Kosovo blowback in Quebec? In my March 24 entry titled “Canada and the recognition of Kosovo,” I argued that Ottawa’s decision to accord ful...

How it changes us The scenes from the Olympic torch event in San Francisco provide the perfect microcosm, if you will, for everything that i...

Salesmen The footage was amateurish, the colors so faded it could have been black and white. The video compression gave the movements an acc...

Incompetence or China’s very own “Mighty Wurlitzer”? The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) victory in the presidential election has provided a...

Why the economy won’t get better As a foreigner living in Taiwan, I have often wondered how people could believe the Chinese Nationalist Par...

The Tiananmen Square torch fizzle* Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) yesterday berated the Beijing Olympic organizing committee following th...

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...