Who is DPA reporting for? On Oct. 24, the Deutsche Presse Agentur (DPA) wire agency reported that the Taiwanese stock exchange, the TAIEX, h...

Rise, o ye Taiwanese youth! Visitors to this site are well aware that it does not condone, let alone promote, violence, regardless of whethe...

What if the Taipei-Beijing courtship failed?* The election in March of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) in Taiwan on Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九)...

The dangerous politics of ethnicity Little did I know when I sat down to write an article about the dangers of using the “ethnic” card in cr...

PRC spooks back in Taiwan In July this year, Taiwan’s Government Information Office (GIO) announced, among other policy relaxations, the res...

A world transformed: Why Taiwan gets its weapons Less than a month ago, with the US Congress set to go into recess, very few but the overly ...

C$18.1 billion later The report is out. Every Canadian household is paying C$1,500 to support a military operation that, by any yardstick, i...

Could the Republicans wag the dog? Global markets tumbled again yesterday after the US House of Representatives shot down the US President G...

Beijing's 'North Korea' card no ace A problem that haunts many “experts” in academia and government is that, by virtue of their ...

They still don’t get al-Qaeda Top US counterterrorism officials on Monday once again demonstrated how little they understand “terrorism” as ...

Where Tsai Ing-wen should not go [UPDATED] The opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) announced yesterday that its chairwoman, Tsai I...

Book Review: Those who helped break the oppressors’ back For many who, for one reason or another, choose to make it their home, Taiwan is pa...

Why the US does not want a nuclear Iran While almost every day we are told that the US, the UN and the West in general oppose a nuclear Iran...

Now the real games begin Despite the unfortunate stabbing of a US national on day one, a few questions about possibly under-aged Chinese div...

Beggars and choosers In light of his track record on the US-led “war on terrorism” and conservative policies in general, it is rather unusua...

Why South Ossetia matters to Taiwan As the world holds its breath and awaits confirmation that Russian troops have pulled out of Georgia, it...

The ugly illusion For those who live far away from China or who do not focus on its domestic politics on a regular basis, China seems to be ...

In Memoriam: Anthony Russo There were many occasions during my long struggle to complete Smokescreen , my expose of Canadian security intell...

It’s the Cold War all over again Anyone who has followed (even if only remotely) developments in Eastern Europe in the past few years would ...

Right words, wrong person US President George W. Bush has “deep concerns” about the human rights situation in China, and he intends to say j...