Overall, the two parties showed restraint during the campaigns for the Nov. 27 special municipality elections, with the KMT doing a little m...

If Taiwanese are to express their accumulated anger, they should learn to aim it in the right direction The outbursts of anger some Taiwanes...

China was anything but low profile on matters of military planning, and it was easy to imagine who the targets were Efforts by the Chinese m...

Beijing's expectations that Taiwanese will relinquish their separate identity will be disappointed Two years into his term, Taiwanese Pr...

Negligence or darker motives? A CNA piece on a speech by Christopher Walker on the weekend made him sound as if he was taking sides in the C...

Signs are emerging that the Ma administration is taking a soft authoritarian approach to freedom of speech Seemingly isolated incidents obse...

The Nov. 5 acquittal of former president Chen changes nothing about the heavy sentencing he faces, and provides the KMT with  the ammunition...

Former US president Bill Clinton’s visit to Taiwan on Nov. 14, where he will deliver a speech, comes after unsuccessful attempts by former U...

The Ma administration reacts to a decision by the judiciary in a manner that, in its disdain for the law, is oddly reminiscent of the Chines...

Two recent books add to the growing body of literature on the Chinese Communist Party and reach similar conclusions about its methods and fu...

When dealing with China, Taiwan cannot afford to cut on defense and neglect intelligence at the same time, yet this is exactly what the adm...

For many, it was almost like being sent to the moon, tasked as they were with reporting on an unknown giant that was part rival, part ally, ...

The Washington-based Formosan Association for Public Affairs (FAPA) on Tuesday accused President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) administration of forc...

The head of the Taiwanese delegation at the Tokyo International Film Festival said in no uncertain terms that Taiwanese would refuse to go b...

After years of little activity in the Chinese navy with regards to submarines, an increasing incidence of pictures of and reports about new ...

As we reported in the Taipei Times today, former US president Bill Clinton will be in Taipei on Nov. 14, his first visit to Taiwan since 20...

The nation's ranking may have improved over last year, but serious questions remain, and its position today is still 12 spots below its ...

China does not make concessions on human rights; the rest of the world does. The latest victim is Canada, whose prime minister in 2006 had v...

Any military confidence-building mechanism between Taiwan and China will be asymmetrical, because only one side threatens the other militari...

With Taiwan unlikely to request drones from the US, the logical alternative is to turn to the Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology...