[{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"126","ar_id":"2003829766","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-07","ar_head":"EDITORIAL CARTOON","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"EDITORIAL CARTOON","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/07\/2003829766","photo":{"ar_id":"2003829766","ph_attr":"","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/07","ph_fname":"p08-250107-cartoon.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/07\/p08-250107-cartoon.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/07\/thumbs\/p08-250107-cartoon.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Mihir Sharma","ar_views":"125","ar_id":"2003829767","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-07","ar_head":"India and China should admit their economies are intertwined","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"India\u2019s national security advisor met Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi (\u738b\u6bc5) for the first time since 2019 last month. This get-together was previously an annual affair, but it had not been held since Indian and Chinese soldiers clashed on the border in the summer of 2020. Its resumption i","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/07\/2003829767","photo":{"ar_id":"2003829767","ph_attr":"Illustration: Yusha","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/07","ph_fname":"p07-250107-pic7AA.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/07\/p07-250107-pic7AA.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/07\/thumbs\/p07-250107-pic7AA.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Adam Nelson and May Butoy","ar_views":"261","ar_id":"2003829768","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-07","ar_head":"China is ramping up actions against the Philippines","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"In April last year, a spokesperson for former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte suggested that the Philippines and China had entered into an undisclosed \u201cgentleman\u2019s agreement\u201d between 2016 and 2022. China would not challenge the \u201cstatus quo\u201d in the West Philippine Sea, and the Philippines would ","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/07\/2003829768","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Raphael Rashid","ar_views":"139","ar_id":"2003829769","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-07","ar_head":"Why the supporters of Yoon Suk-yeol have been flying US flags","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"As investigators attempted to arrest South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Friday morning, his supporters gathered outside the presidential residence waving two national flags: the South Korean Taegukgi alongside the American Stars and Stripes.To outsiders, the unexpected combination might seem ba","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/07\/2003829769","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"463","ar_id":"2003829702","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-06","ar_head":"EDITORIAL: Lai\u2019s speech and legislative chaos","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"President William Lai\u2019s (\u8cf4\u6e05\u5fb7) New Year\u2019s Day speech covered much of the ground one would expect on such occasions. However, it was his comments on what is happening in the Legislative Yuan that were particularly more informative than his two previous major speeches, because of how specific he was. H","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/06\/2003829702","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"839","ar_id":"2003829703","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-06","ar_head":"Guermantes Lailari on Taiwan:Taiwan under PRC martial law","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"The ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu (\u5b6b\u5b50) said \u201cknow yourself and know your enemy and you will win a hundred battles.\u201d Applied in our times, Taiwanese should know themselves and know the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) so that Taiwan will win a hundred battles and hopefully, deter the CCP.T","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/06\/2003829703","photo":{"ar_id":"2003829703","ph_attr":"","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/06","ph_fname":"p08-250106-WEBGuermantesLailari.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/06\/p08-250106-WEBGuermantesLailari.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/06\/thumbs\/p08-250106-WEBGuermantesLailari.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Chao Hsuey-wen \u8d99\u8403\u6587","ar_views":"365","ar_id":"2003829704","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-06","ar_head":"Lawmakers should know what issues to prioritize","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"The legislature has recently rejected all seven nominees for the Constitutional Court, including National Taiwan University professor of law Chang Wen-chin (\u5f35\u6587\u8c9e) and Parliament Observation Culture and Education Foundation (\u570b\u6703\u89c0\u5bdf\u6587\u6559\u57fa\u91d1\u6703) chair Yao Li-ming (\u59da\u7acb\u660e) for president and vice president of the Ju","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/06\/2003829704","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"122","ar_id":"2003829705","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-06","ar_head":"EDITORIAL CARTOON","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"EDITORIAL CARTOON","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/06\/2003829705","photo":{"ar_id":"2003829705","ph_attr":"","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/06","ph_fname":"p08-250106-cartoon.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/06\/p08-250106-cartoon.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/06\/thumbs\/p08-250106-cartoon.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Karishma Vaswani","ar_views":"165","ar_id":"2003829706","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-06","ar_head":"Behind the rise of the Asian aunty","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"The Asian aunty has a lot to teach us about gendered stereotypes and how to fight them. The term, often used as a sign of respect, has also become a way to disparage and indicate that a woman is past her prime. It is not unusual to hear younger men and women call their older female colleagues or fri","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/06\/2003829706","photo":{"ar_id":"2003829706","ph_attr":"Illustration: Yusha","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/06","ph_fname":"P07-250106-JHJKH.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/06\/P07-250106-JHJKH.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/06\/thumbs\/P07-250106-JHJKH.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"934","ar_id":"2003829707","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-06","ar_head":"Russia and China: An old friendship poses new threats","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"It is almost three years since Chinese President Xi Jinping (\u7fd2\u8fd1\u5e73) and Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a friendship with \u201cno limits\u201d \u2014 weeks before Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Since then, they have retreated from such rhetorical enthusiasm. The \u201cno limits\u201d language was qu","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/06\/2003829707","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"507","ar_id":"2003829652","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-05","ar_head":"EDITORIAL: Calling China\u2019s bluff on talks","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"President William Lai (\u8cf4\u6e05\u5fb7) on Wednesday proposed talks with Beijing to ease restrictions on Chinese visiting Taiwan, the Central News Agency wrote.Lai said that while more than 2 million Taiwanese had visited China last year, fewer than 300,000 Chinese had visited Taiwan, and called China \u201cthe real","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/05\/2003829652","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Roger Wu \u5433\u54f2\u6587","ar_views":"711","ar_id":"2003829653","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-05","ar_head":"China\u2019s \u2018Trojan horse\u2019 in Taiwan","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (\u6731\u7acb\u502b) said that he expects this year to be a year of \u201cpeace.\u201d However, this is ironic given the actions of some KMT legislators and politicians. To push forward several amendments, they went against the principles of legislation such as substantive d","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/05\/2003829653","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Chris Patten","ar_views":"513","ar_id":"2003829654","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-05","ar_head":"China: Eating with a long spoon","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"My son-in-law is an actor who is taking part in London\u2019s West End in one of Shakespeare\u2019s best-known plays, The Tempest. Watching a performance the other day, I was reminded of a line that occurs in that play and in another by the Master. It comes from what was apparently a common English saying in ","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/05\/2003829654","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Chen Chi-nung \u9673\u555f\u6fc3","ar_views":"83","ar_id":"2003829655","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-05","ar_head":"Celebrating the new year in a socially engaged way","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"I was born in the 1960s. When I was growing up, there was no such thing as a New Year\u2019s Eve celebration in Taiwan to mark the change from the end of the previous year to a new year in the solar calendar. New Year\u2019s Day was celebrated as the anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China (ROC),","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/05\/2003829655","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"76","ar_id":"2003829656","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-05","ar_head":"[ LETTER ]","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"A colonial mindsetIn their second documentary episode on China\u2019s \u201cunited front\u201d efforts, Taiwanese YouTuber \u201cPa Chiung\u201d (\u516b\u70af) and Taiwanese rapper Chen Po-yuan (\u9673\u67cf\u6e90), discussed the latest Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tactics, revealing that 200,000 Taiwanese citizens in China have obtained Chinese I","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/05\/2003829656","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"127","ar_id":"2003829657","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-05","ar_head":"EDITORIAL CARTOON","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"EDITORIAL CARTOON","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/05\/2003829657","photo":{"ar_id":"2003829657","ph_attr":"","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/05","ph_fname":"p08-250105-op.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/05\/p08-250105-op.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/05\/thumbs\/p08-250105-op.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Andrea Felsted \r\n","ar_views":"134","ar_id":"2003829658","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-05","ar_head":"High-profile designer moves show how much luxury brands are hurting","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"Fashion people are obsessed with designer moves. Investors should be too.Earlier this month, Chanel named Matthieu Blazy, the creative director of Kering SA\u2019s Bottega Veneta, as its new top designer in an unprecedented round of musical chairs that has also seen Hedi Slimane leave Celine and Kim Jone","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/05\/2003829658","photo":{"ar_id":"2003829658","ph_attr":"Illustration: Louise Ting","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/05","ph_fname":"p07-250105-pic7A.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/05\/p07-250105-pic7A.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/05\/thumbs\/p07-250105-pic7A.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Ruti Teitel","ar_views":"87","ar_id":"2003829659","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-05","ar_head":"Trump is only the latest US leader to covet the Panama Canal","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"US president-elect Donald Trump clearly does not intend to pursue a \u201cgood neighbor\u201d policy. He has been mocking Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by calling him \u201cgovernor\u201d while proclaiming that a country of 40 million people should become the 51st US state. His first telephone conversation wit","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/05\/2003829659","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"472","ar_id":"2003829613","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-04","ar_head":"EDITORIAL: Spotlight on the CCP","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"A spotlight in the UK has been shone on the Chinese Community Party\u2019s (CCP) use of \u201cunited front\u201d tactics to advance its political interests after reports that Yang Tengbo (\u694a\u9a30\u6ce2) \u2014 a resident of the UK for more than 20 years and an honorary member of the 48 Group Club, a UK-China friendship organizat","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/04\/2003829613","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Chu Meng-hsiang \u6731\u5b5f\u5ea0","ar_views":"442","ar_id":"2003829614","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-04","ar_head":"TPP\u2019s Huang\u2019s disregard for law","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"Since he was released on bail, former Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je (\u67ef\u6587\u54f2) has not publicly urged his former secretary Hsu Chih-yu (\u8a31\u82b7\u745c) to return to Taiwan to clarify details about the corruption scandal he faces. Taiwan People\u2019s Party (TPP) Acting Chairman Huang Kuo-chang (\u9ec3\u570b\u660c) has not called for her to r","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/04\/2003829614","photo":[]}]