A visit to Taiwan by Chinese Vice Minister of Public Security Chen Zhimin (陳智敏) and his delegation earlier this month was shrouded in secre...

It’s no secret that politicians often use opinion polls to support, rather than determine, policy decisions. Knowing this, the public is wel...

Aside from the business and geopolitical imperatives that stem from the international community’s desire to interact with the People’s Repub...

Data recently released by the nation’s main spy agency, the National Security Bureau (NSB), put a new dent in President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九)...

The recent publication of a memoir by former US negotiator Jeremy Stone re-ignited a controversy last week over alleged plans under the form...

There is no knowing whether an editorial in the People’s Daily on Friday that for all intents and purposes removed the Chinese Nationalist P...

The Financial Supervisory Commission’s rejection last week of a bid by a Hong Kong consortium to acquire Nan Shan Life Insurance Co was a we...

The Ministry of National Defense last week took a group of reporters on a tour of the nation’s three military services, an event meant to hi...

Amid mounting apprehensions surrounding the emergence of China as a major military power, defense experts continue to focus their attention ...

Watchdog journalism has flourished in China over the past decade as reporters and editors risk their careers and sometimes their lives to ex...

The Yomiuri Shimbun today reported that Japan and the US were planning to hold joint naval exercise near the disputed Diaoyutai (釣魚台, Senka...

President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) promise that China would be more amenable to Taiwan inking free-trade deals or integrating with other regiona...

The pages of this newspaper [the Taipei Times ] and other liberal publications are filled with beautiful slogans about the need to “protect”...

Car-free initiatives have become trendy in cities worldwide trying to sensitize the population to the environmental damage caused by motoriz...

Officials at the US-based Freedom House on Monday [early May] denied the watchdog was angry at the Liberty Times over its coverage of a dra...

Based on recent comments by President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), it would seem that the cross-strait “diplomatic truce” he initiated soon after com...

As my latest article in the Taipei Times indicates, we have good reason to worry about the ability of Taiwan’s military to ward off an inva...

The latest computerized scenario carried out by the military showed that in a war with China, Taipei would be occupied by enemy forces in ju...

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) confirmed on June 23 that Broadcasting Corporation of China (BCC) chairman Jaw Shaw-kong (趙少康) — founder...

Taiwanese-American Will Tiao, producer and actor in the political thriller ‘Formosa Betrayed,’ sat down with ‘Taipei Times’ staff reporter J...