On the preposterous claim that cultural knowledge and true comprehension cannot be acquired by the ‘other’  Lang Lang’s fingers came to ...

The best insurance against Taipei turning into the next Gaza is for Taiwan to invest in proper military deterrence, and not to count on in...

The Democratic Progressive Party’s independence clause is a non-issue and should be treated as such  Judging from the attention it has r...

Unless youth are given the space and responsibilities they are entitled to, Taiwan’s political parties will die of old age, and soon after...

Mark your calendars! Officially Unofficial: Confessions of a journalist in Taiwan , will be officially launched during a signing event at...

A response to Julian Ku’s interpretation of international law and history  Whenever I come across facile — or worse, self-serving — justi...

Should the CCP find itself in dire straits, could provoking external conflicts boost its legitimacy at home? And if so, where would it str...

In a repeat of the lead-up to the 2012 elections, Ma and his trusted political manipulator seem to be harnessing the powers of the state t...

From armed UAVs to mid-range cruise missiles, Taiwan can creatively impose conditions such that a PLA invasion would promise too high a co...

Eight years in the making, my semi-autobiographical work on media in Taiwan is finally available  In this long-awaited memoir, journalis...

A review of David M. Finkelstein’s 'Washington’s Taiwan Dilemma, 1949-1950'  Taiwan’s fear of abandonment by the great powers th...

Nearly three months after the end of the occupation of the legislature, it is time to assess what the Sunflower Movement has accomplished,...

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...