A welcome precedent was set on Wednesday when Taiwan’s representative to Canada, David Lee (李大維), was invited to address a Canadian parliame...

Ma Zhongfei (馬中飛), the Chinese tourist who on Monday was arrested on charges of spying on a military facility in downtown Taipei, was releas...

While I was being interviewed by the Voice of America (VOA) yesterday regarding the suicide over the weekend of former South Korean presiden...

The Taiwan External Trade Development Council announced on Friday that for the first time since 1970, Taiwan will take part in the World Ex...

After being prodded by a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator at the legislature yesterday, Minister of the Interior Liao Liou-yi (...

Department of Health Minister Yeh Ching-chuan (葉金川) was in for a surprise in Geneva yesterday when two Taiwanese students approached him aft...

This is something that I and others have written about on countless occasions already. But as long as international wire agencies and news o...

The question of whether waiguoren , or “foreigners,” should get involved in Taiwanese politics is one that has been asked for decades, start...

HTML version of this article available here . PDF version available here . What if something other than military hardware, balance of power ...

Review: Nixon and Mao: The week that changed the world By Margaret Macmillan Historian Margaret Macmillan’s Nixon and Mao , the record of US...

Widening the door for PRC spying The announcement on Wednesday last week that Far EasTone Telecommunications Co intended to sell a 12 percen...

‘Taipei Times’ v. the ‘People’s Daily’ As a frequent contributor to and editor at the Taipei Times newspaper, I often search the Internet t...

A little bit of cross-strait game theory With Straits Exchange Foundation Chairman Chiang Pin-kung (江丙坤) and his team of negotiators just ba...

CSIS Public Report 2007-2008: A feeling of déjà vu My former employer, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), released this week...

Wang Jin-pyng addresses the TFCC Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) met the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents’ Club (TFCC) at the Thompson ...

Canada’s new brand of ‘terrorists’ — British MPs During my 14 weeks of training as an intelligence officer at the Canadian Security Intellig...

He said it'd be OK to kill my wife We met when I worked as an intelligence officer in Canada, part of an organization that at times risk...

Book Review: It's war in the Taiwan Strait The year is 2012. In Taiwan, a charismatic new leader named Yo Tuan occupies the Presidential...

Education key to future of China’s economic ‘miracle’ China’s economic “miracle” has pulled 200 million people out of poverty in the past tw...

‘Ultranationalists’ versus ‘terrorists’ News broke out on Tuesday that Israeli prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu, who is seeking t...