With the impacts of extreme climate change, Dubai, the United Arab Emirates’ desert-ensconced host for the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27), was inundated in one day with a deluge of rainfall that exceeded what it normally receives in an entire
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chinese Minister of National Defense Dong Jun (董軍) on April 16 engaged in their first dialogue since 2022. During the videoconference, they delved into various topics, including US-China defense and regional issues, as well as global security, such as Russia’
A series of strong earthquakes in Hualien County not only caused severe damage in Taiwan, but also revealed that China’s power has permeated everywhere.A Taiwanese woman posted on the Internet that she found clips of the earthquake — which were recorded by the security camera in her home — on the Ch
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US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel is known for not mincing his words. What has surprised is his target: the folks back home.“I have a message for all the experts back in Washington: You don’t know Japan of today,” the former White House chief of staff for former US president Barack Obama said in J
In late 2013, when Goldman Sachs Group turned optimistic on India after a sharp slowdown in growth, the bank titled its report “Modi-fying Our View.” The reference was to Narendra Modi, by then the market’s favorite to become prime minister. As if to prove that investors were right to back him as an
A major blackout was narrowly averted in northern Taiwan on the afternoon of April 15 when diesel-powered generators owned by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co and other companies were activated to help bridge supply gaps as several major Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) generators went offline, pushi
The senior-high school section of Chung Cheng Armed Forces Preparatory School has registered 580 cadets out of 900 applicants, a three-year high.The numbers show that willingness to serve in the military has not been affected by pension reform. They also shatter the lie that Chinese Communist Party
On April 20, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) sent 21 aircraft and seven naval vessels around Taiwan within three hours. Much nearer to China, an incident in which a fishing boat capsized on Feb. 14 off Kinmen, resulting in two deaths, remains unresolved. Meanwhile, across the Pacific Ocean, it ha
The economy embodies society’s flesh and culture, its heart and soul. Economics and culture in a normal society need proper attention and simultaneous development. Body and mind need to be healthy. If only the economy is developed, then the body grows obese. If only culture is developed, then the co
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Why are former US president Donald Trump and the Make America Great Again (MAGA) Republicans so fascinated by Viktor Orban, the prime minister of a small, landlocked central European nation that many of them likely could not find on a map? Because, as he said in 2022 when he addressed a US Conservat
In the fictional world of the P.D. James novel Children of Men and its movie adaptation, humanity has lost the ability to reproduce and thus faces certain extinction. We are meant to understand this as a bad thing, but a subset of people consider it a utopia. To them, Earth is doomed as long as it i
Premier-designate Cho Jung-tai’s (卓榮泰) selection of J.W. Kuo (郭智輝) as minister of economic affairs has surprised many observers. While some Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators have criticized the selection over Kuo’s previous contraventions of the Securities and Exchange Act (證券交易法) and alle
The absence of a formal security dialogue between Taiwan and Japan has been a salient subject of discussion, indicative of a significant void in the security architecture of the Indo-Pacific region. The urgency of this matter was underscored in 2019 when President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) addressed its ne
Under intense pressure from Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Wu Tsung-hsien (吳宗憲), the Legislative Yuan’s Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee has retained all 20 provisions of a controversial legislative reform bill. Motions from Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators
TPP letting voters downThe Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) and its chairman, Ko Wen-je (柯文哲), have turned their backs on the party’s younger supporters, with its legislators acting as lackeys for the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).Last year, TPP legislator-at-large Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) quit the New Po
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Six months after being battered by Hurricane Otis, Acapulco is barely recovering. Piles of rubble, derelict buildings once worth millions and dozens of broken traffic lights represent not just an economic and humanitarian catastrophe, but also a national embarrassment.However, you would not know it