A Beijing conveniently forgetful As I wrote in my article “A parade to end all parades,” published today in the Taipei Times , China is in a...

China’s parade to end all parades* Amid news that millions of migrant workers are roaming the Chinese countryside unemployed, a severe droug...

Book review: ‘Bob of Arabia’ explores the ills of our troubled times How does one review a book by a man who has spent the past three decade...

Some Tibetan lessons for Taiwan Next month will mark the 50th anniversary of the “liberation” of Tibet by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)...

O Canada, land of double standards In recent weeks, Ottawa has sounded as if its speeches were written by the Jewish Anti-Defamation League ...

Hamas is responsible, but … Outgoing, corruption-haunted and altogether discredited Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed on Sunday that ...

Can Obama’s shift on terror succeed? But a few days in office and already US President Barack Obama has moved to undo some of the most nefar...

Lies, lies, lies (Part II) I find it heartening to see that in recent weeks demonstrations against Israel’s military aggression in Gaza have...

Lies, lies, lies Bloomberg today carried a piece headlined “China Security Improved in 2008 With Taiwan Ties,” a headline that on its own sh...

Only fools wouldn’t see a developing pattern Not once, not twice, but on three occasions calendars meant for distribution by government offi...

CIA reviews my book — my response In the Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf, the CIA’s Center for the Study of Intelligence (vol. 52, No. ...

Live from Sderot Every day, as part of my job on the copy desk at a newspaper, I scan news and pictures from the global wire agencies my pap...

Freedom House releases ‘freedom index’ in Taipei For the first time since it started publishing its Freedom of the World annual report in 1...

The downfall of an academic Michael Ignatieff, once a respected academic, authored a handful of important books on human rights, nationalism...

Airport 'glitch' poses security risk If this were any normal country in any ordinary neighborhood, the computer crashes that affecte...

Speak not the truth, or hide The Taipei Times received a letter, which it published on Sunday, by an American who was reacting to an op-ed ...

HRW denies any influence at play in removal of Taiwan By J. Michael Cole STAFF REPORTER In an e-mail response to an inquiry from the Taipei ...

Ottawa blames the victims — again “The Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper reached an abysmal new low in its uncritical...

The forbidden question Whenever Israel launches strikes against Palestinians, it always justifies its actions by saying it is doing so “in r...

Israel’s ‘all out war’ against Hamas According to UN statistics, Palestinian Occupied Territories (OT) ranked No. 106 worldwide on the Human...