The outcome would challenge assumptions about the durability of China’s influence and reaffirm the appeal of cooperative, ...

Donald J. Trump’s return to the White House in 2025 reshaped Washington’s approach to Taiwan. His administration moved away from the familiar rhetoric of shared democratic values and instead adopted a ...

This is a translation of the original 進步本土的小黨，如何成為有政治實力的第三勢力？ by Yi-Hsuan Lin (林邑軒), a journalist and columnist ...

On a rainy April day in an elementary school classroom in Taipei, 11 and 12-year-old students giggled and bounced on their feet with fists clenched and arms swinging, performing the action of jumping ...

On a superficial level, after the January 2016 elections, the Kuomintang, or the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), seems like a highly pragmatic political party of the past contesting for power in a ...

The idea of a unified Taiwanese identity for everyone across all ethnic lines is a relatively new one. Up until very recently, Taiwan’s history is marked with successive bouts of foreign occupation ...

There’s a cliche popular in Taiwan that Taiwanese education is “Confucian” or based on the philosophy of Confucianism. This is used as praise where it succeeds: high standards, high societal respect ...

Kevin: Tell me about where you’re from and what brought you to Taiwan? Darice: I’m originally from Minnesota, where I was born and raised. I attended university there, and then worked in Los Angeles.

The United States has been rocked by large street protests over the past two weeks, sparked by the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died while being arrested by four police officers. These ...

This article is based on a Taiwan Report podcast, Taiwan Report News Brief–DPP Factions, prepared for Ketagalan Media by the author. Recently, while working on an entry in an upcoming book, the ...

With the 2016 general elections right around the corner, the island nation of Taiwan will once again exercise its hard-won democracy in a contest heralding exciting political change. On January 16, ...

On 8 May 2024, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te delivered a public address at a commemoration of Victory in Europe Day (VE Day), reaffirming the importance of democracy, the free market, and human rights ...