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In many ways, Mr. Wu (吳) is a walking advertisement for everything that Taiwan has achieved in the last several decades. He grew up in the waning days
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In his 1908 essay, “Leo Tolstoy as the Mirror of the Russian Revolution,” Vladimir Lenin concluded that while Tolstoy was unmatched in portraying the
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Over the past two weeks, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense has detected an unusually low number of Chinese military flights around
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On Thursday, China’s ceremonial legislature approved a sweeping new law to promote what it refers to as “ethnic unity.” The law calls on all sectors
Why This Taiwan Defense Budget Fight Is Different
In 2004, Taiwan’s executive branch, under the leadership of newly reelected President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁), proposed a massive special budget for arms
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For months, Taiwan’s main opposition Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) has played the role of obstructor, repeatedly refusing to consider the ruling
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Li Chen-Hsiu (李貞秀) didn’t follow the usual path into Taiwanese politics. She was born in China, but left in 1993 after marrying a man from Taiwan. For
How BYD’s Meteoric Rise Has Reshaped Germany-China Relations
In 2016, when Wolfgang Egger left Volkswagen to join BYD, an up-and-coming electric vehicle maker in Shenzhen, Germany still far outpaced China in
AOC, Trump, and a Week of Bad Answers on Taiwan
As Taiwan broke for the lunar new year holiday this week, the United States’ leading populists were busy undermining the longstanding pillars of
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There was a moment of levity at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, when George Yin (尹麗喬), a researcher from National Taiwan University rose