With pragmatism, creativity and understanding from both sides, there is no reason why relations in the Taiwan Strait should sour under a D...

The public humiliation of a young Taiwanese entertainer in South Korea has sparked outrage among the Taiwanese, who retaliated with an eve...

Administrations tend to ossify over time. Peaceful transitions of power are a healthy way to rejuvenate a democracy  Politics is a bit l...

Why the KMT will likely be severely defeated on Saturday  More than ever before in Taiwan’s history, political contention is not defined...

Rule #1 in electoral politics: know what your voters want  Recent developments in Taiwan, from the boisterous campaign leading up to thi...

New Power Party candidate Huang Kuo-chang was invited to appear on a CNN talk show. But the territory’s immigration authorities won’t let ...

On how language often unfairly frames the discussion on Taiwan and China British author George Orwell, one of the greatest polemicists ev...

Fire Ex lead singer Yang Ta-cheng shows us what love (and the new Taiwan) is all about  Greatly needing a break from electoral politics,...

Another year comes to a close, and once again this man-made transition reminds me of the truth behind what my parents told me, years ago,...

Forget the 1992 Consensus. What matters is substance, and Tsai Ing-wen has promised it  With Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive ...

Abolishing the hukou system and adopting absentee voting would make a lot of sense, but doing so is more complex than you think  It was ...

By convincing us that our Taiwan policy is the same as Beijing’s, the Chinese government has succeeded in imposing limitations on our abil...

《黑色島嶼: 一個外籍資深記者對台灣公民運動的調查性報導》, the Chinese-language version of Black Island: Two Years of Activism in Taiwan , was published by Business W...

"Taipei had to wait through nearly the entire second term of the Obama administration before it could secure a new arms package from ...

In the post-Sunflower context, it was downright foolish of the KMT to think that it could pick a running mate who had abused some of socie...

The assault on a French journalist occurs at a time when Beijing authorities are tightening their grip on the media and the Internet, whic...

Those who were hoping that a recent prisoner exchange between Taiwan and China was a sign of warmer ties are deceiving themselves  Two j...

China’s actions and repressive political system are to blame for public apprehensions about China, not the DPP  Lacking an actual policy...

The powerful Chinese man behind the attempted acquisition of Eastern Broadcasting Co is the son of a former top PLA leader  The recent a...

'In reality, the meeting was a distraction that is unlikely to fundamentally alter the face of politics between the two countries'...