In the heart of the Pacific, where climate change is no longer an abstract debate, but a daily reality, Taiwan’s efforts to shape its role in global climate governance offer inspiration and lessons. As the world grapples with rising seas and intensifying storms, the island nation is not only address
US president-elect Donald Trump has yet to be inaugurated, but he has already caused raging waves throughout the world, from his suggestion that Canada should become the 51st US state to this threats to purchase, or even use military force to acquire, Greenland and the Panama Canal. His brash claims
China’s mass exodusInternational human rights group Safeguard Defenders released a report titled “China’s mass exodus” on Friday last week, which cited UN High Commissioner for Refugees statistics showing that more than 1 million Chinese have sought asylum abroad between 2012 and the middle of last
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The idea of businessman Elon Musk as a potential buyer for TikTok might seem like the craziest development yet in the saga of the US government’s determination to ban the app. However, it is not as out-of-left-field as it sounds and would carry its own potential harms.The world’s wealthiest man has
Weeks before his return to the White House, US president-elect Donald Trump issued a pointed warning to the BRICS countries. “Go find another sucker,” he wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, threatening the group’s nine members with 100 percent tariffs should they attempt to challenge t
Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Acting Chairman Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) has formally announced his intention to stand for permanent party chairman. He has decided that he is the right person to steer the fledgling third force in Taiwan’s politics through the challenges it would certainly face in the post-
In their New York Times bestseller How Democracies Die, Harvard political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt said that democracies today “may die at the hands not of generals but of elected leaders. Many government efforts to subvert democracy are ‘legal,’ in the sense that they are appro
The following is a statement by alumni and current students of the College of Law (Undergraduate Department and Graduate Institute) at National Taiwan University of opposition to the unlawful amendments to the Constitutional Court Procedure Act (憲法訴訟法):Separation of powers is the backbone of modern
On Jan. 6, Indonesia was officially accepted as a full member of the BRICS group. While this development might not have a direct or immediate impact on Taiwan, it could shift the geopolitical dynamics in the Asia-Pacific region. First, BRICS, as an economic bloc, harbors diverse geopolitical interes
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US president-elect Donald Trump’s silly season has already caused irreparable damage to US national security. Despite not yet holding office for a minute, Trump has made it plain that in his second term the US will be an unreliable partner swayed by his personal whim, that he has no respect for hist
British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves left behind turmoil in financial markets to travel to Beijing in pursuit of growth drivers for the British economy, sparking a media backlash at home and dismaying critics of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The results were underwhelming.Reeves, w
Monday was the 37th anniversary of former president Chiang Ching-kuo’s (蔣經國) death. Chiang — a son of former president Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石), who had implemented party-state rule and martial law in Taiwan — has a complicated legacy. Whether one looks at his time in power in a positive or negative li
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus whip Fu Kun-chi (傅?萁) has caused havoc with his attempts to overturn the democratic and constitutional order in the legislature. If we look at this devolution from the context of a transition to democracy from authoritarianism in a culturally Chinese sense — th
In a move that has stirred excitement and skepticism, Indonesia officially joined the BRICS international forum this year. Proponents hailed it as a bold step forward, one that could amplify Indonesia’s voice in global affairs. However, as the dust settles, questions remain: What does Indonesia hope
As health awareness continues to gradually increase, pharmacists — as important advocates of public health — are receiving more attention and recognition in society. I am extremely honored to have been appointed as a member of the Healthy Taiwan Promotion Committee, as it not only serves as an affir
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When I feel uncertain, I find it is helpful to write down things I know to be true. Fossil fuels are causing irreversible planetary overheating. Overheating threatens essentially all life on Earth. Oil and gas executives knew this, but they chose to systematically lie and block a climate transition.
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