Civil society must be part of the Tsai Ing-wen administration’s coalition. Alienating it at the outset is not a recommendable policy  It...

For 20 years Taiwan’s representative office to Canada has held its gala, described as a ‘big draw’ for Canadian MPs. But this year China c...

Yes, Taiwan must do more to combat Internet scammers. But by overreaching, Beijing has turned this into a political issue Last week’s co...

Sample bias undermines a Chinese author's argument that a third option exists for China to achieve the great dream of national unifica...

Beijing appears to be turning the screws on Taiwan  In another sign of Beijing’s hardening stance on Taiwan, government representatives ...

With the abduction of 45 Taiwanese nationals, China is sending an ominous signal to Taipei and the international community  The ongoing ...

The forced deportation of Taiwanese citizens to China sparks fears about extraterritoriality  Taiwanese of all stripes were aghast this ...

The satisfaction of bloody retribution notwithstanding, capital punishment is the lazy way out, as it doesn’t require us to address the re...

Hung’s election is the worst possible outcome for Taiwan, as it puts the KMT’s formidable assets at the disposal of politicians who should...

Beijing does not only have to contend with traditional 'taidu,' but 'huadu' as well, two forces that, when joined, play a ...

As a post-modern state, Taiwan should not worry too much about its official diplomatic allies, many of which are micro-states. It must ins...

作為對照及定義自身認同的對象，台灣人在今天的中國身上看見的，正是他們所不願成為的模樣 這個趨勢幾年前就開始了，不論台北和北京的兩個政府是怎樣同步勸誘台灣人回心轉意，大造宣傳還是施以甜頭，都無法阻擋：越來越多台灣人認同自己是台灣人而不是中國人。有幾項人口統計因素對今日台灣人...

By making the contrast between the two societies increasingly sharp, Chinese nationalism inadvertently helps consolidate Taiwanese self-id...

Warnings by the international media and marginal players do not reflect the reality among top leaders  If we believed many of the articl...

A Review of Shawna Yang Ryan’s ‘Green Island’  It wasn’t the dreaded knock on the door in the middle of the night. Instead, the undercov...

The latest reaction by a conservative religious alliance in Taiwan occurs just as Beijing passes new controversial regulations banning the...

Key Points  China remains committed to eventual unification with Taiwan despite its moderate response to the election of an anti-unifica...

As long as the governments in Taipei and Beijing remain pragmatic and flexible, the sky won’t fall over the Taiwan Strait  With the May ...

A controversy over a proposal to remove portraits of Sun Yat-sen in public buildings raises important questions about national symbols and...

Winning the elections was the easy part. Now president-elect Tsai Ing-wen needs to reach across the political spectrum to build a truly un...