Since President Ma Ying-jeou launched his policy of détente with China, the assumption has been that Beijing would reduce its military and i...

Whether the DF-16 is the real deal, a variant of an existing missile or a medium-range ballistic missile known to US intelligence is more th...

The Canadian experience of engaging China should serve as a warning to intelligence officers in Taiwan: The closer you get to China, the les...

The anti-nuclear movement should take a step back and look at the destructiveness of traditional energy sources before they call for a categ...

Defense cuts. Procurement sources drying up. A modernizing Chinese military. Can Taiwan meet its defense needs under the prevailing system? ...

A new type of ballistic missile, added to intelligence on short-range missiles with submunitions, does not bode well for Taiwan’s even most ...

AEC and Taipower said Wu Den-yih’s assurances about the safety of Taiwan’s nuclear power plants were mistaken. However, few officials dared ...

The premier told the legislature that nuclear power plants in Taiwan were safer than the one that risks blowing up in Japan, but there’s a p...

Even in times of crisis, Japanese political parties can barely summon the kind of bipartisan unity needed to address the situation. There ar...

Australian magazine The Diplomat asked me earlier this week to comment on a recent special commentary by Rupert Hammond-Chambers, President ...

Two assistant professors  at the US Naval War College and the president of the US-Taiwan Business Council added their voices to the chorus o...

The Ma administration claims it cannot abolish the death penalty because of public calls to address criminality. However, study after study ...

An article that proposes ceding Taiwan to China for the purpose of securing Beijing’s acquiescence on other contentious matters highlights t...

The Obama administration so far has only notified weapons systems that addressed the threat Taiwan was facing back in April 2001, with littl...

As China continues its crackdown on foreign reporters who are trying to do their job, the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents Club called Beijing ...

Sounding very much like Henry Kissinger back in the 1970s, Charles Glaser argues that the US should be willing to sacrifice Taiwan for the s...

The longer Taiwanese and Chinese who support cross-strait economic liberalization continue to talk past each other, the more painful it will...

While all the attention has focused on the likely cuts at the VOA Chinese service, Radio Free Asia, which is expected to fill the vacuum lef...

More than 90 percent of global commerce is transported through the maritime shipping network via cargo containers, with about 500 million tw...

Whatever approach is taken, helping democratize China cannot be accomplished by ignoring the transgressions of the Chinese Communist Party P...