Little by little, with subtle changes and amendments, the media environment in Taiwan is being boiled to death like the proverbial frog The ...

The region is moving ever-closer to naval confrontation in the waters surrounding the disputed Diaoyutai Islands The Ministry of Foreign Aff...

With two weeks left before the full terms of a controversial trade pact signed between Taiwan and China in June come into force, the global ...

Still sounding like he’s running in the 2008 presidential election, Ma Ying-jeou stole an overused term by a prominent US academic and used ...

We seem to have entered an era where state governors, mayors and officials in the world’s most powerful nations can be browbeaten by lowly C...

Su Chi is back with a new consensus, an ill-defined rhetorical contraption that blames the DPP for cross-strait misunderstandings and that h...

Even on matters of trade, China continues to deny Taiwan the international space that would truly stand for goodwill Missouri Governor Jay N...

Language is often a reflection of hidden assumptions, and by dint of repetition we can lose sight of reality, especially on complex matters ...

No clear victory, no clear defeat in the special municipality elections on Nov. 27, and still a lot of uncertainty over their ramifications ...

Eager to present Beijing with a rosy picture of the situation back home, the KMT appears to have discredited itself in the eyes of its Chine...

Whether it be in Beijing, Washington or Taipei, the elite political discourse oftentimes fails to listen to the voices that will ultimately ...

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...