In the wars for hearts and minds, governments often set the parameters of legitimacy by effectively masking the arbitrariness of their arg...

Lin Fei-fan, Chen Wei-ting and Huang Kuo-chang have seen their applications to visit Hong Kong to support activists there denied by the au...

To create space between its maritime claims and Beijing’s, Taiwan should neutralize Taiping Island  Rising tensions in the South China S...

A white paper on the successes of the ‘one country, two systems’ model for Hong Kong contains the usual propaganda and a few serious warni...

A top foreign affairs official denies saying that there is strong ‘domestic pressure’ against Taiwan joining a regional missile defense pr...

Twenty-five years of maturing as a distinct nation has made Taiwanese seemingly uninterested about the Tiananmen Square Massacre, but they...

China continues to reject any proposal for reunification outside the 'one country, two systems' framework  The Taiwanese referre...

Three experts involved in the study of territorial disputes in the South China Sea have reportedly been working part-time for a think tank...

Civil society must come to terms with the fact that their good ideas will only become policies if they are adopted and voted in by legisla...

The forced exile of a well-known Hong Kong actor over his support for the Sunflower Movement highlights Beijing’s fear of cooperation betw...

Some would like to see the young man who killed four people on the MRT last week put to death as quickly as possible, but doing so would b...

Unless Washington quickly modernizes its views on current realities in the Taiwan Strait, it will be caught unprepared  A few months ago...

A leading expert on remote sensing technology from Taiwan now works for an institute in Beijing with possible ties to the People’s Liberat...

Pro-government pundits are accusing young activists of warping social values and creating an environment in which extreme acts of violence...

Three days after an annual event was held to raise awareness on discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgenders, a young homosexual...

To mark the sixth anniversary of President Ma’s inauguration, Taiwan News invited me to share my views on his legacy in 300 words  Six y...

Preemption is a power that the state should only exercise under extraordinary circumstances; left unchecked, it risks unleashing the ‘thou...

Recent riots in Vietnam in response to a territorial dispute between Hanoi and Beijing highlight the risks to Taiwanese who may be mistake...

In an eerily familiar move in the legislature, the KMT may have rekindled the crisis over a controversial services pact with China  As t...

China hopes it can avoid having to use force against Taiwan to realize its political ambitions; an easier target is Taiwan’s democratic in...