[{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"112","ar_id":"2003831391","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-02-06","ar_head":"EDITORIAL CARTOON","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"EDITORIAL CARTOON","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/02\/06\/2003831391","photo":{"ar_id":"2003831391","ph_attr":"","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/02\/06","ph_fname":"p08-250206-cartoon.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/02\/06\/p08-250206-cartoon.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/02\/06\/thumbs\/p08-250206-cartoon.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Lewis Krauskopf and Davide Barbuscia","ar_views":"58","ar_id":"2003831392","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-02-06","ar_head":"Investors on guard as US tariff threats evolve","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"Investors are seeking to protect portfolios from the potential economic fallout from US President Donald Trump\u2019s tariff plans even as many on Wall Street doubt the situation would erupt into a sustained trade war that cripples assets.Announcements on tariffs have whipsawed markets this week, as inve","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/02\/06\/2003831392","photo":{"ar_id":"2003831392","ph_attr":"Illustration: Mountain People","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/02\/06","ph_fname":"p07-250206-pic7AA.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/02\/06\/p07-250206-pic7AA.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/02\/06\/thumbs\/p07-250206-pic7AA.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Lionel Laurent","ar_views":"64","ar_id":"2003831393","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-02-06","ar_head":"How Europeans should plan for Trump trade salvo","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"US President Donald Trump is not sure whether Spain is an emerging market or not \u2014 he recently asked if it was a \u201cBRICS nation.\u201d However, he is sure that tariffs on the EU are coming \u201csoon,\u201d a threat with added weight now that he has fired his opening salvo against Canada and Mexico \u2014 even taking in","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/02\/06\/2003831393","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"92","ar_id":"2003831394","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-02-06","ar_head":"Trump\u2019s power grab: A coup veiled by chaos","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"US President Donald Trump is provoking a US constitutional crisis, claiming sweeping powers to override or bypass the US Congress\u2019 control over spending in a brazen attempt to centralize financial power in the executive branch. If he succeeds, it would be a 21st-century coup \u2014 with power slipping fr","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/02\/06\/2003831394","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"386","ar_id":"2003831329","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-02-05","ar_head":"EDITORIAL: Brace for Trump\u2019s tariff turmoil","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"Taiwan is bracing for enormous challenges this year to sustain strong economic growth amid potentially escalating tit-for-tat tariffs and uncertain prospects for the local artificial intelligence (AI) sector after China\u2019s DeepSeek debuted its first chatbot, stirring turmoil in the industry. With a m","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/02\/05\/2003831329","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Ming\r\nYang \u8317\u8a00","ar_views":"347","ar_id":"2003831330","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-02-05","ar_head":"Breaking the constitutional deadlock","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"Germany\u2019s Weimar Constitution originated the semi-presidential constitutional system and was used as a reference for the drafting of the Republic of China\u2019s Constitution.Under the Weimar Constitution, the president, who is directly elected by voters, does not directly lead the government\u2019s bureaucra","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/02\/05\/2003831330","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Cathy\r\nFang","ar_views":"348","ar_id":"2003831331","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-02-05","ar_head":"Seoul-Tokyo ties create uncertainty","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"What transpires when two anchor nations of the Indo-Pacific region are caught in the throes of political uncertainty and upheaval? When Japan, the bedrock of regional security, wrestles to stay aligned with an ally whose commitments are increasingly transactional? When South Korea, mired in politica","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/02\/05\/2003831331","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Lee\r\nWen-chung \u674e\u6587\u5fe0","ar_views":"62","ar_id":"2003831332","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-02-05","ar_head":"Weber and politicians\u2019 qualities amid recalls","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"Max Weber is one of the most influential public intellectuals of the 20th century. His lecture \u201cPolitics as a Vocation,\u201d delivered in 1919 and published in Max Weber\u2019s Complete Writings on Academic and Political Vocations, examines the ethical responsibilities or what some might call the moral choic","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/02\/05\/2003831332","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"102","ar_id":"2003831333","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-02-05","ar_head":"EDITORIAL CARTOON","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"EDITORIAL CARTOON","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/02\/05\/2003831333","photo":{"ar_id":"2003831333","ph_attr":"","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/02\/05","ph_fname":"p08-250205-cartoon.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/02\/05\/p08-250205-cartoon.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/02\/05\/thumbs\/p08-250205-cartoon.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Parmy Olson","ar_views":"139","ar_id":"2003831334","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-02-05","ar_head":"DeepSeek\u2019s \u2018open AI\u2019 should terrify Sam Altman","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"Since launching ChatGPT two years ago, OpenAI chief executive officer Sam Altman has maintained that his business is fueled by a few key ingredients: chips, data and money. The more of those three elements you shovel into his firm, like coal into a steam train\u2019s furnace, the more powerful artificial","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/02\/05\/2003831334","photo":{"ar_id":"2003831334","ph_attr":"Illustration: Mountain People","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/02\/05","ph_fname":"p07-250205-pic9A.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/02\/05\/p07-250205-pic9A.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/02\/05\/thumbs\/p07-250205-pic9A.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Amar Bhide","ar_views":"93","ar_id":"2003831335","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-02-05","ar_head":"Assessing whether the new Chinese AI offering is a threat","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"Thomas Edison, the autodidactic telegraph operator turned entrepreneur, is often considered the greatest inventor of all time, while Nikola Tesla, who worked for an Edison company in Paris before emigrating to the US, is barely remembered, except through Elon Musk\u2019s electric-vehicle company. Yet it ","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/02\/05\/2003831335","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"496","ar_id":"2003831285","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-02-04","ar_head":"EDITORIAL: No one is safe from Trump tariffs","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"US President Donald Trump on Saturday signed orders to impose tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China effective from today. Trump decided to slap 25 percent tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada as well as 10 percent on those coming from China, but would only impose a 10 percent tariff on Canadian ene","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/02\/04\/2003831285","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Harun Talha Ayanoglu","ar_views":"579","ar_id":"2003831286","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-02-04","ar_head":"Taiwan is failing to retain talent","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"Taiwan faces complex challenges like other Asia-Pacific nations, including demographic decline, income inequality and climate change. In fact, its challenges might be even more pressing. The nation struggles with rising income inequality, declining birthrates and soaring housing costs while simultan","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/02\/04\/2003831286","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Yao Chung-yuan \u59da\u4e2d\u539f","ar_views":"476","ar_id":"2003831287","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-02-04","ar_head":"How to handle China\u2019s shadow fleet","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"Taiwan\u2019s undersea cables connecting it to the world were allegedly severed several times by a Chinese ship registered under a flag of convenience. As the vessel sailed, it used several different automatic identification systems (AIS) to create fake routes. That type of \u201cshadow fleet\u201d and \u201cgray zone\u201d","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/02\/04\/2003831287","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Lee Chuan-hsin \u674e\u5ddd\u4fe1","ar_views":"132","ar_id":"2003831288","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-02-04","ar_head":"Culture is the key to national identity","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"In 1624, Taiwan became embroiled in the Age of Sail competition between Dutch and Spanish colonial powers. During the rule of the Chinese Ming Dynasty loyalist Cheng Cheng-kung (\u912d\u6210\u529f), also known as Koxinga, and the subsequent rule by the Manchu-led Qing Dynasty, Han Chinese culture was introduced to","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/02\/04\/2003831288","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"111","ar_id":"2003831289","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-02-04","ar_head":"EDITORIAL CARTOON","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"EDITORIAL CARTOON","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/02\/04\/2003831289","photo":{"ar_id":"2003831289","ph_attr":"","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/02\/04","ph_fname":"p08-250204-op.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/02\/04\/p08-250204-op.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/02\/04\/thumbs\/p08-250204-op.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Gwladys Fouche","ar_views":"173","ar_id":"2003831290","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-02-04","ar_head":"NATO scrambles for drones that can survive the arctic","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"In 2023, Mads Petersen, owner of Greenland-based startup Arctic Unmanned, sat in a car to keep warm while he tested a small drone at minus-43\u00b0C. The cold soon drained the drone\u2019s power.\u201cThe battery only lasted for three minutes,\u201d he said.Governments in the world\u2019s far north are seeking to overcome s","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/02\/04\/2003831290","photo":{"ar_id":"2003831290","ph_attr":"ILLUSTRATION: CHEN, YI-CHUN","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/02\/04","ph_fname":"p07-250204-tt.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/02\/04\/p07-250204-tt.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/02\/04\/thumbs\/p07-250204-tt.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Laura Alviz","ar_views":"80","ar_id":"2003831291","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-02-04","ar_head":"Germany is rethinking civil-military relations","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"As Germany ramps up spending on its military, a clash is brewing around what some politicians and defense executives say is one of the nation\u2019s biggest untapped resources: public universities.The debate centers on so-called civil clauses \u2014 widely used policies at major research institutions that res","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/02\/04\/2003831291","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"572","ar_id":"2003831236","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-02-03","ar_head":"EDITORIAL:The coming recall turmoil","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"After nine days of holidays for the Lunar New Year, government agencies and companies are to reopen for operations today, including the Legislative Yuan. Many civic groups are expected to submit their recall petitions this week, aimed at removing many Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers from t","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/02\/03\/2003831236","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"BY Lee Min-yung\u674e\u654f\u52c7","ar_views":"412","ar_id":"2003831237","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-02-03","ar_head":"Enlightenment and civilization","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"When viewing Taiwan\u2019s political chaos, I often think of several lines from Incantation, a poem by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature, Czeslaw Milosz: \u201cBeautiful and very young are Philo-Sophia, and poetry, her ally in the service of the good... Their friendship will be glorious, their ","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/02\/03\/2003831237","photo":[]}]