The surest way Taiwan can defeat China in a major war is to make sure that it never happens  A consensus seems to have developed among a...

Long before the student-led Sunflower Movement stormed the legislature in Taipei on March 18, 2014, sparking the most serious political cr...

A convoluted network of Chinese companies and organizations is involved in Beijing's "onion layer" strategy against Taiwan a...

An incident involving an academic’s invented quotes from a closed-door meeting between the DPP chairperson and a US official sets a new st...

We don’t hear much about Taiwan in Washington nowadays. But not for the reasons that Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy ...

Unless it wants to be the eternal outsider, the ‘third force’ in Taiwanese politics must agree to form strategic coalitions within the sys...

Much of the irreconcilable differences between Taiwan and China are the result of different types of nationalism, the ‘blood’ versus the ‘...

Chinese President Xi Jinping doesn't think that the 1992 consensus, the framework that has facilitated 'peace and stability' i...

What if the leadership in Beijing saw advantages in not resolving the Taiwan ‘issue’? Continuing a long tradition set by his predecessor...

A former KMT spokesman argues in an influential foreign publication that the KMT is in the ‘throes of reform’. That would be wonderful, bu...

Overly bleak pictures of Taiwan’s willingness and ability to defend its way of life are not only misleading, they play right into Beijing’...

A botched prison break in Kaohsiung turns into a political melodrama with a tragic conclusion  A dramatic hostage-taking situation at a ...

A total of 118 people, including Lin Fei-fan and Chen Wei-ting, will be prosecuted for the 318 and 323 occupation and a smaller incident o...

Proud and nationalistic Chinese students are increasingly vocal overseas. Often, though not always, they get away with bullying others on ...

What role, if any, can Taiwan play in the U.S. rebalancing to Asia? And what can Taipei to do increase its chances of being given a role i...

The Zhen Xiaojiang spy network sounds like bad news for Taiwan, but the damage to national security might not be as severe as it sounds  ...

Reforming the system is absolutely necessary. But what can society do if entrenched interests and status quo powers stand in the way of wh...

Damage assessments following the busting of a spy ring must look not only to the secrets that were stolen, but also to the propaganda valu...

台灣與中國的統一絕非必然。事實上，它已經不再是選項 數十年來，學者和政治人物都費盡心思要為台海兩岸的死結尋求解套方式。至今提出過的一切解決方案，其核心都必定涉及「一個中國」的概念，無論用詞上作何表述。中國的智庫學者，以及台灣的藍、綠兩陣營，在這一點上挖空心思創造出各種詞彙...

Unification between Taiwan and China is not inevitable; in fact, it is no longer an option  For decades academics and politicians have s...