In the past 72 hours, US Senators Roger Wicker, Dan Sullivan and Ruben Gallego took to social media to publicly rebuke the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) over the defense budget. I understand that Taiwan’s head is on the chopping block, and the urgency of its security situation cannot be overstated
For years, the US has been urging Taiwan to increase defense spending amid mounting threats from an increasingly capable China hell-bent on “unification.” Nevertheless, this month Taiwanese legislators moved to block a critical increase in the defense budget. Their obstinacy not only undermines Taiw
Having failed to keep up with the government’s early plans to build one garbage incinerator per county or city, Nantou County is the only county in Taiwan without an incinerator. Over the years, accumulated issues surrounding waste collection and disposal have continuously grown. Throughout this tim
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Amid escalating geopolitical tensions, the world is increasingly caught between the US — an extractive superpower — and China, a “dependency superpower” whose global influence rests on making other countries reliant on its exports. In the absence of meaningful resistance, both are likely to remain o
In an industry numb to eye-watering artificial intelligence (AI) bets, it takes a lot to make a chief executive hesitate. So Nvidia chief executive officer Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) blinking at one such commitment to OpenAI is worthy of notice. Huang has been telling industry associates that his US$100 bil
Thailand is falling behind its peers in Asia — and today’s election is unlikely to stop that slide. Repeated coups, court interventions and short-lived governments have left a country that was once a regional powerhouse trailing competitors such as Vietnam. This is not due to a lack of talent or cap
The Taiwan Association for Sexuality Education, the Chinese Association for the Development of Affective Education and the Action Alliance on Basic Education on Monday advocated for the implementation of more comprehensive sex education programs, saying that more emphasis must be placed on interpers
Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Legislator Li Zhenxiu (李貞秀), who was born in China and moved to Taiwan after marrying a Taiwanese citizen, is one of the party’s new legislators-at-large. However, she has not yet renounced her Chinese nationality.Article 20 of the Nationality Act (國籍法) clearly stipulates
Immediately after the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) “Justice Mission” exercise at the end of last year, a question was posed to Indian Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal regarding recent developments involving the exercises around Taiwan, and how he viewed their imp
Beginning on July 1, large-scale food and beverage operators would be brought under a new framework requiring them to use only washed and graded eggs. Many have questioned the added costs this would incur, while others argue that such regulations are excessively strict. However, speaking from the fr
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Three months into her tenure as Japan’s first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi is connecting with younger voters in a way her predecessors failed.She plays KPop Demon Hunters’ Golden on the drums with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung and takes selfies with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Mel
Israel’s official and unofficial spokespeople are in damage control mode after a senior military official last week admitted that Israel accepts the death toll published by Gaza’s health ministry, which currently stands at more than 70,000. This comes after two years in which Israel and its supporte
While the opposition Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) senior personnel were meeting with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials in China on Tuesday for “economic interactions,” President William Lai (賴清德) in Taipei asserted that Taiwan should cooperate with like-minded democracies instead to advan
I imagine that Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Zhang Youxia (張又俠) had no idea just how powerful he truly was. Just by being removed, he triggered a myriad of possible futures, all of them equally dramatic, ranging from single-handedly causing the apocalypse of Taiwan to triggering the downf
On a political figure’s first day in office, they are expected to lay out their governing direction, institutional responsibilities and public commitments. However, when the conversation immediately revolves around passports, the issue is less about the law and more about managing anxiety. By emphas
Taiwan launched its first 10-year long-term care program in 2007, followed by long-term care 2.0 in 2017. Its latest reincarnation, long-term care 3.0, was brought forward to be launched ahead of schedule this year. Over the past 19 years, these initiatives have provided older people with localized
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