Last year, Taiwanese tycoon Robert Tsao (曹興誠) pledged one billion New Taiwan dollars ($32.79 million) to fund civil defense training in Taiwan. Since
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A former diplomat previously in charge of the U.S. government’s substantive relations with Taiwan has set out four key choices for Taiwan’s future
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Another week, another major road traffic incident making news in Taiwan. This time, a ten car pile-up following Korean pop group Blackpink’s concert
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Compare and contrast. On Tuesday, China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin (汪文斌) told a press briefing that the U.S. and U.K. deal to help
An Interview With a Taiwanese Conscript (Part Three: The Twist)
Taiwan’s decision to extend compulsory military service from four months to one year, effective Jan. 1, 2024, has energized an existing debate over
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After big talk ahead of China’s Two Sessions meetings suggested Beijing would speed up its “reunification” plan for Taiwan, the Taiwan content at the
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The Chinese government’s regular insistence that its “one China principle” is a “universal consensus of the international community and a basic norm
An Interview With a Taiwanese Conscript (Part Two: I’m Just Bored)
Taiwan’s decision to extend compulsory military service from four months to one year, effective Jan. 1, 2024, has energized an existing debate over
Interview With Ben Goren: Supporting Taiwan From the Left
Ben Goren is the co-founder and director of communications at the Taiwan Policy Centre, a non-partisan group set up to promote Taiwan in the U.K. His
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Online discussion around what the emergence of AI chatbots means for Taiwan has so far tended to focus on the details of what they are unintentionally
Our Q&A With ChatGPT About Taiwan Raised Issues
After years of Wikipedia and Google search results operating as battlegrounds for how Taiwan should be described, a new site of potential contestation
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Predictably, U.S. President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech this week was framed by some as a “dramatic warning to China.” This rested on quotes