[{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Mark Gongloff","ar_views":"77","ar_id":"2003830735","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-24","ar_head":"Trump\u2019s Paris abandonment is a disgrace","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"When the US leaves the Paris climate agreement at US President Donald Trump\u2019s command about a year from now, it would join Iran, Libya and Yemen as the only countries not part of the accord. What fine company.It is tempting to think of ways to play down Trump\u2019s decision to abdicate global leadership","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/24\/2003830735","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Bill Dudley","ar_views":"65","ar_id":"2003830736","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-24","ar_head":"Trump\u2019s economics are hard to predict, so prepare for turbulence","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"Now that US President Donald Trump has taken office, markets and the economy have a new and very different driving force. Forget about the US Federal Reserve. The US\u2019 outlook would depend much more on how, and to what extent, the president puts his plans on everything from tariffs to deportations in","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/24\/2003830736","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"444","ar_id":"2003830670","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-23","ar_head":"EDITORIAL: Adapting to Trump\u2019s tariffs","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"Taiwanese CEOs, especially those in the technology sector, have been anxious about US President Donald Trump\u2019s new trade policies since he won a second term, as the tariff-free regime established under the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) would be severely challenged amid an escalating US-Chin","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/23\/2003830670","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Lin Chin-kuo \u6797\u9032\u570b","ar_views":"426","ar_id":"2003830671","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-23","ar_head":"Making history through recalls","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"It is everyone\u2019s duty to protect the country. No one is an outsider. Of course, it is the same for political parties. People should make an effort to educate themselves. The government should also support and work with people to restore normalcy in the country. Our country is ours to save.Our countr","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/23\/2003830671","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Ben Goren","ar_views":"451","ar_id":"2003830672","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-23","ar_head":"The UK\u2019s misplaced China focus","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"It would be easy to look at headlines about the new UK government\u2019s desire to boost economic and political cooperation with the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC) and shake your head with wonder. How little time has passed since the failure of then-British prime minister David Cameron and Chinese Pres","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/23\/2003830672","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Liao Ming-hui \u5ed6\u660e\u8f1d","ar_views":"125","ar_id":"2003830673","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-23","ar_head":"Redefining Taiwan\u2019s role in the Trump era","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"US President Donald Trump\u2019s inaugural speech centered around a \u201crevolution of common sense\u201d and pushed the concept of his \u201cAmerica First\u201d policy to the extreme. For Taiwan, this not only illustrates Trump\u2019s blueprint for US domestic affairs, but could also be the prelude to a drastic shift in the in","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/23\/2003830673","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"119","ar_id":"2003830674","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-23","ar_head":"EDITORIAL CARTOON","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"EDITORIAL CARTOON","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/23\/2003830674","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830674","ph_attr":"","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/23","ph_fname":"p08-250123-op.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/23\/p08-250123-op.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/23\/thumbs\/p08-250123-op.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By KaTJa Hoyer","ar_views":"189","ar_id":"2003830675","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-23","ar_head":"Germany cannot take AfD \u2018firewall\u2019 for granted","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"Riding high in the polls, the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany party (AfD) is in a buoyant mood ahead of German elections on Feb. 23. With all other parties forming a \u201cfirewall\u201d against it, the AfD is unlikely to get into power this time, but the next election might be a different matter.Cur","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/23\/2003830675","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830675","ph_attr":"Illustration: Mountain People","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/23","ph_fname":"p07-250123-mp.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/23\/p07-250123-mp.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/23\/thumbs\/p07-250123-mp.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Lara Williams","ar_views":"68","ar_id":"2003830676","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-23","ar_head":"Donald Trump is not the biggest threat facing Greenland","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"Greenland is one of the few places on Earth where climate change is sometimes referred to as an opportunity by making it less inhabitable for those who live there and more accessible to those who do not, a point not missed by leaders elsewhere. With the landmass no longer safely insulated by sea ice","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/23\/2003830676","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"574","ar_id":"2003830609","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-22","ar_head":"EDITORIAL: New Trump term and Taiwan","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"US President Donald Trump on Monday gave his inauguration speech. Although mainly directed at US citizens, his words were subject to global scrutiny by leaders and others wanting to understand more about his intentions for his second term. The US has been Taiwan\u2019s strongest ally since the end of Wor","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/22\/2003830609","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By John Yu \u4e8e\u5247\u7ae0","ar_views":"460","ar_id":"2003830610","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-22","ar_head":"Lawmaker needs to stop \u2018begging\u2019","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Chen Yu-jen (\u9673\u7389\u73cd) on Wednesday last week proposed cutting the Ministry of Culture\u2019s entire NT$2.309 billion (US$70.47 million) budget allocated to the Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation in a move heavily criticized by the film and arts sector.Chen ","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/22\/2003830610","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Sasha B. Chhabra","ar_views":"801","ar_id":"2003830611","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-22","ar_head":"Feckless foreign policy of the KMT","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"As Taiwan\u2019s domestic political crisis deepens, the opposition Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Taiwan People\u2019s Party (TPP) have proposed gutting the country\u2019s national spending, with steep cuts to the critical foreign and defense ministries. While the blue-white coalition alleges that it is merel","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/22\/2003830611","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Pan Wei-yiu \u6f58\u5a01\u4f51","ar_views":"76","ar_id":"2003830612","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-22","ar_head":"Educators\u2019 role in guarding democracy","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"Recent proposals by legislators from the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Taiwan People\u2019s Party (TPP) not only weaken the spirit of democracy and the rule of law, but also pose significant harm to Taiwan\u2019s education, cultural development and the shaping of civic awareness.The opposition parti","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/22\/2003830612","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"72","ar_id":"2003830613","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-22","ar_head":"[ LETTER ]","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"Foolish visionariesFollowing the Sunflower movement, people optimistically believed that the generation born and raised in a democratic Taiwan would naturally be independent \u2014 a generation that identifies as Taiwanese rather than Chinese, and that clearly recognizes that Taiwan is an independent, se","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/22\/2003830613","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"110","ar_id":"2003830614","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-22","ar_head":"EDITORIAL CARTOON","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"EDITORIAL CARTOON","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/22\/2003830614","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830614","ph_attr":"","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/22","ph_fname":"p08-250122-cartoon.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/22\/p08-250122-cartoon.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/22\/thumbs\/p08-250122-cartoon.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Terry Lynn Karl","ar_views":"62","ar_id":"2003830615","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-22","ar_head":"A house gutted by fire","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"Los Angeles has been burning for two weeks, and the blame game is in full swing. From diversity, equity and inclusion policies, and artificial-intelligence data centers to the mismanagement of public resources by political leaders, fingers seem to be pointed in every direction. However, the charges ","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/22\/2003830615","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830615","ph_attr":"Illustration: Mountain People","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/22","ph_fname":"p07-250122-pic7AA.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/22\/p07-250122-pic7AA.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/22\/thumbs\/p07-250122-pic7AA.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Nicki Hutley","ar_views":"60","ar_id":"2003830616","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-22","ar_head":"Australia is becoming an uninsurable nation","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"As we watch the horror of the Los Angeles fires, Australians are painfully reminded of their own vulnerability to climate change, which continues to exacerbate the impact and frequency of these unnatural disasters.The images of loss and destruction in LA are particularly painful to those who have ex","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/22\/2003830616","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By James Oliphant","ar_views":"48","ar_id":"2003830617","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-22","ar_head":"A familiar Trump ushers in a new era in the US","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"In his inaugural address, US President Donald Trump promised a new golden age, casting himself as a uniter, but for a speech that heralded a bright future, it often echoed the past.Much of Trump\u2019s rhetoric mirrored his words eight years ago, when he was first sworn in as president and spoke about a ","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/22\/2003830617","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"452","ar_id":"2003830552","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-21","ar_head":"EDITORIAL: China fighting to keep trade dominance","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"The Ministry of Economic Affairs last week reported that Taiwanese firms\u2019 outbound investments approved by the Department of Investment Review last year reached a new high, totaling US$48.59 billion, led by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co\u2019s huge investments in the US and Japan. The data also s","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/21\/2003830552","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Chang\r\nKuo-tsai \u5f35\u570b\u8ca1","ar_views":"466","ar_id":"2003830553","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-21","ar_head":"Government on a runaway train","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Taiwan People\u2019s Party (TPP) are colluding in the legislature, creating a reality resembling a train racing down the tracks at full speed, with the passengers bound and gagged as ransomed hostages.The opposition parties appear intent on upsetting the total oper","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/21\/2003830553","photo":[]}]