It is unlikely that Beijing would carelessly violate the median line in the Taiwan Strait. A number of hypotheses help explain why it did Al...

The walls of contradiction that President Ma Ying-jeou has erected around his China policy are slowly closing in on him Last week, for the f...

The Chinese-language DW News service on Sunday claimed that US-Taiwan Business Council president Rupert Hammond-Chambers had “confirmed” tha...

The DPP espouses a multilateral approach to resolving territorial disputes in the South China Sea. One wonders, however, if Taiwan, excluded...

It remains unclear whether, if passed, the amendment would save the 40 jobs or so that are to be cut if VOA ceases all traditional broadcast...

As expected, the Chinese fugitive who has been at the center of controversy for 11 years was kicked out of Canada on Friday and now faces an...

The days when the Taiwanese navy could rely on technological superiority to overcome numerical inferiority are gone, James Holmes and Toshi ...

The ship was already launched in November last year, with little fanfare. The announcement that it was officially launched — a splashier af...

China could be on the brink of achieving critical mass in the field of unmanned aerial vehicle technology China's first indigenously dev...

Fools or cynics, the Conservatives are insulting our intelligence as they try to rationalize their volte-face on China Commenting on the dep...

Defeatism has descended upon the West. It’s all doom and gloom, with seemingly intractable economic crises and an opponent that threatens to...

By making the program official, China wants the US to know that the PLA is developing ways to counter the US presence in the region. Comment...

Fourteen years of contact between Hong Kong and China have failed to ‘transform’ China. What makes anyone think the outcome will be any diff...

Insiders say the vice president is rarely called upon to do the heavy lifting for the Obama administration. Could this be the exception to t...

A new political party claims that to protect Taiwan, people who were born in or have lived in Taiwan for an extended period but who identify...

Without long overdue mid-life upgrades, the Dutch-built submarines would be incapable of firing the Hsiung Feng II anti-ship missile, expert...

As an authoritarian regime with strict control of information, Beijing is in a far better position than Taipei to highlight military success...

Results of the scientific work carried out by Shijian satellites have never been published, giving rise to speculation that they are used to...

For reasons both strategic and financial, selling F-16s to Taiwan is a no-brainer, a lobby group argues Amid announcements of defense cuts b...

Unconfirmed reports of a test during nighttime claim a missile boat with the stealth coating managed to come to within 730m of another vesse...