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Taiwan Diplomacy Power Rankings: November 2025 to January 2026

KMT in China Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) went to China on December 28 for the Taipei-Shanghai Twin-City

Taiwan’s smaller opposition party, the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), is poised to undertake a major legislative reshuffle in February because its six

Pope Leo XIV appeared to speak to the brewing cross-strait crisis earlier this month in his first address to the Vatican diplomatic corps since he

Under Taiwanese law, calling someone “retarded” (智障) in public can cost you 50,000 New Taiwan dollars (around $1,600). The penalty for saying they

Before Alain Robert, the French climber who calls himself “Spider-Man,” climbed to the top of Taipei 101 on Christmas Day in 2004, the skyscraper’s

A delegation led by Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌), the opposition Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) chair, left Taipei on January 11, heading to Washington to meet

Russia underestimated Ukraine’s willingness to fight in 2022. This was in part due to public opinion polls that were conducted covertly for Russian

U.S. President Donald Trump said that Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) “considers [Taiwan] to be a part of China, and that’s up to him what he’s

Sticking to a simple New Year’s resolution under normal circumstances is hard enough. Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te’s (賴清德) resolution is not

Semiconductors Taiwanese semiconductor powerhouse TSMC began mass-producing 2-nanometer chips — its most advanced chips to date — in the fourth

China’s military fired rockets into waters north and south of Taiwan on Tuesday, the second day of its “Justice Mission 2025” live fire drills aimed

The Chinese military announced Monday that it would conduct a series of Justice Mission 2025 live-fire drills around Taiwan. China’s army, navy, air