Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Chen Yu-jen (陳玉珍) on Wednesday last week proposed cutting the Ministry of Culture’s entire NT$2.309 billion (US$70.47 million) budget allocated to the Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation in a move heavily criticized by the film and arts sector.Chen
As Taiwan’s domestic political crisis deepens, the opposition Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) have proposed gutting the country’s national spending, with steep cuts to the critical foreign and defense ministries. While the blue-white coalition alleges that it is merel
Recent proposals by legislators from the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) not only weaken the spirit of democracy and the rule of law, but also pose significant harm to Taiwan’s education, cultural development and the shaping of civic awareness.The opposition parti
Foolish visionariesFollowing the Sunflower movement, people optimistically believed that the generation born and raised in a democratic Taiwan would naturally be independent — a generation that identifies as Taiwanese rather than Chinese, and that clearly recognizes that Taiwan is an independent, se
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Los Angeles has been burning for two weeks, and the blame game is in full swing. From diversity, equity and inclusion policies, and artificial-intelligence data centers to the mismanagement of public resources by political leaders, fingers seem to be pointed in every direction. However, the charges
As we watch the horror of the Los Angeles fires, Australians are painfully reminded of their own vulnerability to climate change, which continues to exacerbate the impact and frequency of these unnatural disasters.The images of loss and destruction in LA are particularly painful to those who have ex
In his inaugural address, US President Donald Trump promised a new golden age, casting himself as a uniter, but for a speech that heralded a bright future, it often echoed the past.Much of Trump’s rhetoric mirrored his words eight years ago, when he was first sworn in as president and spoke about a
The Ministry of Economic Affairs last week reported that Taiwanese firms’ outbound investments approved by the Department of Investment Review last year reached a new high, totaling US$48.59 billion, led by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s huge investments in the US and Japan. The data also s
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) are colluding in the legislature, creating a reality resembling a train racing down the tracks at full speed, with the passengers bound and gagged as ransomed hostages.The opposition parties appear intent on upsetting the total oper
On Jan. 3, one of Taiwan’s undersea cables was damaged about 7 nautical miles (13km) north of New Taipei City’s Yehliu (野柳). The Coast Guard Administration (CGA) identified the Cameroonian-flagged freighter the Shunxing-39 (順興39號) as being nearby at the time of the incident based on an analysis of s
United Microelectronics Corp founder Robert Tsao (曹興誠) recently wrote in an article that anyone in Taiwan can see that Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) legislators are taking orders from KMT caucus whip Fu Kun-chi (傅?萁), who is in turn being directed by Beijing, the Ch
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The day before he left the White House in 2021, then US-president Donald Trump vowed to remain a force in US politics. “The movement we started is only just beginning,” he said in a farewell video.What might have seemed then to be wishful thinking now sounds like a prophecy.Trump left office a defea
In the last speech of his presidency, US President Joe Biden described the US the way he usually only describes the nation’s adversaries: as an oligarchy. His fears about “the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra-wealthy people” came after weeks of discussion of the infl
Last week, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), together holding more than half of the legislative seats, cut about NT$94 billion (US$2.85 billion) from the yearly budget. The cuts include 60 percent of the government’s advertising budget, 10 percent of administra
“I compare the Communist Party to my mother,” sings a student at a boarding school in a Tibetan region of China’s Qinghai province. “If faith has a color,” others at a different school sing, “it would surely be Chinese red.” In a major story for the New York Times this month, Chris Buckley wrote abo
Georgia’s approach toward Russia and China represents a “choice of sides” by the government, led by the populist Georgian Dream (GD) party. To understand how and why Tbilisi has opted for joining the Chinese-Russian axis, it is important to mention some important facts.First of all, GD’s alleged pos
Faced with the military threat of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) — and for the sake of security across the Strait, in the region and around the globe — an adequate budget is crucial to ensuring the smooth operation of the Ministry of National Defense (MND), the army, the navy and the air force.Op
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