What was behind the move? What are the implications for Taiwan?  The African nation of São Tomé and Príncipe on December 20 announced th...

Panic, hope, fear and anger are all premature when it comes to Trump’s policy on Taiwan and China  If we needed one word to describe Pre...

Most analysis of the call overlooks a crucial component: Tsai’s own calculations and the domestic reaction on Taiwan  The 10-minute tele...

Weighing the pros and cons of THE CALL  The recent 10-minute telephone conversation between US President-elect Donald Trump and Taiwanes...

President Trump could do a few things to normalize ties with Taiwan, but the options remain limited  The recent storm over Taiwanese Pre...

What was behind the Tsai-Trump call? What does it mean about US-Taiwan-China relations? President-elect Donald J. Trump last week seemed...

As I write these words, the aircraft that is taking me to London, where I am scheduled to give three lectures this week, is flying over K...

The current mess isn’t a gentlemen’s debate on policy, where one side’s facts are weighed against those of their opponents; it is, instead...

Opponents of same-sex marriage rallied outside the legislature as lawmakers discussed proposed amendments to the civil code Several thou...

Gay marriage would help gangsters and other criminals, apparently Conservative Christians have been taking to the streets to stop same-s...

Three things Taiwan can and should do now to mitigate the potentially negative repercussions of a Trump presidency  The election of Dona...

Interest in unification with Beijing has been dwindling. Developments in Hong Kong are the nail in the coffin  The latest round of prote...

China ius busy trying to dismantle the U.S. security alliance in Asia. Can Taiwan weather the storm?  After years of assertiveness that ...

Can the KMT chairwoman create new facts on the ground with Beijing?  Kuomintang Chairperson Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱) arrived in China this we...

Money, persuasion and coercion have all failed  For all the talk about the inevitability of the eventual “reunification” of Taiwan and C...

The electoral costs to the government of proceeding with legalizing same-sex unions in Taiwan are so low it makes no sense to delay the ma...

We all know how China treats its own journalists. But what about the CCP's critics outside China? More and more, it's going after ...

Beijing imposes a fiction about Taiwan and often gets its way in global institutions. But in the end, nomenclature will never change the f...

Don’t hold your breath for a breakthrough in President Tsai’s cross-Strait policy on National Day  As Oct. 10 approaches, a growing chor...

Like-minded coalitions of major states are increasingly unable to counter Beijing’s efforts to isolate Taiwan at international institution...