[{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Chiang\r\nHuang-chih \u59dc\u7687\u6c60","ar_views":"402","ar_id":"2003830554","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-21","ar_head":"\u2018Gray zone\u2019 tactics tough to fight","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"On Jan. 3, one of Taiwan\u2019s undersea cables was damaged about 7 nautical miles (13km) north of New Taipei City\u2019s Yehliu (\u91ce\u67f3). The Coast Guard Administration (CGA) identified the Cameroonian-flagged freighter the Shunxing-39 (\u9806\u820839\u865f) as being nearby at the time of the incident based on an analysis of s","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/21\/2003830554","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Yu\r\nKung \u611a\u5de5","ar_views":"132","ar_id":"2003830555","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-21","ar_head":"The CCP to Fu to KMT, TPP chain of command","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"United Microelectronics Corp founder Robert Tsao (\u66f9\u8208\u8aa0) recently wrote in an article that anyone in Taiwan can see that Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Taiwan People\u2019s Party (TPP) legislators are taking orders from KMT caucus whip Fu Kun-chi (\u5085?\u8401), who is in turn being directed by Beijing, the Ch","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/21\/2003830555","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"114","ar_id":"2003830556","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-21","ar_head":"EDITORIAL CARTOON","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"EDITORIAL CARTOON","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/21\/2003830556","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830556","ph_attr":"","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/21","ph_fname":"p08-250121-cartoon.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/21\/p08-250121-cartoon.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/21\/thumbs\/p08-250121-cartoon.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Andy Sullivan\r\n","ar_views":"68","ar_id":"2003830557","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-21","ar_head":"Once an interloper, Trump returns to White House more powerful than before","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"The day before he left the White House in 2021, then US-president Donald Trump vowed to remain a force in US politics. \u201cThe movement we started is only just beginning,\u201d he said in a farewell video.What might have seemed then to be wishful thinking now sounds like a prophecy.Trump left office a defea","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/21\/2003830557","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830557","ph_attr":"Illustration: Yusha","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/21","ph_fname":"p07-250121-pic7AA.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/21\/p07-250121-pic7AA.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/21\/thumbs\/p07-250121-pic7AA.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Quinn Slobodian","ar_views":"79","ar_id":"2003830558","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-21","ar_head":"Big Tech\u2019s realignment with Trump and what it wants","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"In the last speech of his presidency, US President Joe Biden described the US the way he usually only describes the nation\u2019s adversaries: as an oligarchy. His fears about \u201cthe dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra-wealthy people\u201d came after weeks of discussion of the infl","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/21\/2003830558","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"629","ar_id":"2003830500","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-20","ar_head":"EDITORIAL: The KMT\u2019s arrogant budget cuts","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"Last week, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Taiwan People\u2019s Party (TPP), together holding more than half of the legislative seats, cut about NT$94 billion (US$2.85 billion) from the yearly budget. The cuts include 60 percent of the government\u2019s advertising budget, 10 percent of administra","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/20\/2003830500","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"661","ar_id":"2003830501","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-20","ar_head":"Michael Mazza On Taiwan: Imperial China eyes Taiwan","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"\u201cI compare the Communist Party to my mother,\u201d sings a student at a boarding school in a Tibetan region of China\u2019s Qinghai province. \u201cIf faith has a color,\u201d others at a different school sing, \u201cit would surely be Chinese red.\u201d In a major story for the New York Times this month, Chris Buckley wrote abo","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/20\/2003830501","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830501","ph_attr":"","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/20","ph_fname":"p08-2501205DATE-WEBMichaelMazza - Copy.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/20\/p08-2501205DATE-WEBMichaelMazza - Copy.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/20\/thumbs\/p08-2501205DATE-WEBMichaelMazza - Copy.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Michele\r\nMaresca","ar_views":"459","ar_id":"2003830502","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-20","ar_head":"Tbilisi is moving closer to China","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"Georgia\u2019s approach toward Russia and China represents a \u201cchoice of sides\u201d by the government, led by the populist Georgian Dream (GD) party. To understand how and why Tbilisi has opted for joining the Chinese-Russian axis, it is important to mention some important facts.First of all, GD\u2019s alleged pos","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/20\/2003830502","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Ray\r\nSong \u5b8b\u78ca","ar_views":"96","ar_id":"2003830503","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-20","ar_head":"The defense budget is a necessary public good","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"Faced with the military threat of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) \u2014 and for the sake of security across the Strait, in the region and around the globe \u2014 an adequate budget is crucial to ensuring the smooth operation of the Ministry of National Defense (MND), the army, the navy and the air force.Op","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/20\/2003830503","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"118","ar_id":"2003830504","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-20","ar_head":"EDITORIAL CARTOON","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"EDITORIAL CARTOON","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/20\/2003830504","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830504","ph_attr":"","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/20","ph_fname":"p08-250120-cartoon.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/20\/p08-250120-cartoon.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/20\/thumbs\/p08-250120-cartoon.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Erin Lowry\r\n","ar_views":"107","ar_id":"2003830505","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-20","ar_head":"\u2018No buy 2025\u2019 would not fix your financial problems","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"A couple of weeks into a new year and the shine of \u201cnew year, new you\u201d has started to dim \u2014 but one personal finance trend, \u201cNo buy 2025,\u201d has taken hold for millennials and Gen Z on social media. Whether it is in response to a few years of post-COVID-19 pandemic \u201crevenge spending\u201d or just balancing","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/20\/2003830505","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830505","ph_attr":"Illustration: Yusha","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/20","ph_fname":"p07-250120-gp.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/20\/p07-250120-gp.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/20\/thumbs\/p07-250120-gp.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Chris Bryant","ar_views":"104","ar_id":"2003830506","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-20","ar_head":"Germany\u2019s lazy debate about the foreigners who are on welfare","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"Listen to German politicians vying to win next month\u2019s federal elections and you might mistakenly conclude work-shy welfare recipients are a primary cause of the country\u2019s economic and budgetary woes. That depressing discourse risks distracting from Germany\u2019s real challenges, while stigmatizing migr","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/20\/2003830506","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"408","ar_id":"2003830449","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-19","ar_head":"EDITORIAL: Better driver education needed","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"Traffic incidents were responsible for killing or injuring 115 children under the age of 14 last year, the Jing Chuan Child Safety Foundation said on Monday.Seventy percent of 86 traffic incidents that occurred over the past year were caused by drivers who failed to yield to pedestrians, foundation ","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/19\/2003830449","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Huang Wei-ping \u9ec3\u60df\u51b0","ar_views":"653","ar_id":"2003830450","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-19","ar_head":"What Trump wants from the KMT","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus in the Legislative Yuan has made an internal decision to freeze NT$1.8 billion (US$54.7 million) of the indigenous submarine project\u2019s NT$2 billion budget. This means that up to 90 percent of the budget cannot be utilized. It would only be accessible if the","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/19\/2003830450","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Gahon Chiang \u6c5f\u4f73\u7d18","ar_views":"406","ar_id":"2003830451","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-19","ar_head":"China\u2019s subsea \u2018gray zone\u2019 tactics","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"China\u2019s illegal, coercive, aggressive and deceptive activities represent an escalating threat to global democracies. Among these, subsea cable sabotage stands out as a critical challenge, endangering international communication, economic stability and democratic values. Subsea fiber-optic cables, wh","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/19\/2003830451","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Paul Li \u6797\u4fdd\u83ef","ar_views":"126","ar_id":"2003830452","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-19","ar_head":"Macau is the poster child for China\u2019s \u2018two systems\u2019","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"The Chinese Communist Party\u2019s (CCP) Central Economic Work Conference in Beijing at the end of last year failed to find a solution for China\u2019s economy. Although Chinese officials claimed that the foreign trade surplus hit a record high last month, China\u2019s and Hong Kong\u2019s stock markets have kept tumbl","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/19\/2003830452","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"75","ar_id":"2003830453","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-19","ar_head":"[ LETTER ]","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"English prep coursesTo enhance the international mobility and communication skills of Taiwanese students, the Ministry of Education launched the \u201cBilingual Education Program for College Students\u201d in September 2021, which has now entered its third year. The goal of the program is to enable students t","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/19\/2003830453","photo":[]},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"108","ar_id":"2003830454","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-19","ar_head":"EDITORIAL CARTOON","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"EDITORIAL CARTOON","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/19\/2003830454","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830454","ph_attr":"","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/19","ph_fname":"p08-250119-op.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/19\/p08-250119-op.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/19\/thumbs\/p08-250119-op.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Brahma Chellaney","ar_views":"123","ar_id":"2003830455","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-19","ar_head":"Will Trump crack the mystery of COVID\u2019s origin?","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"The COVID-19 pandemic killed an estimated 7.1 million people worldwide, causing global life expectancy to decline by 1.6 years between 2019 and 2021. It disrupted economies, destroyed livelihoods, and strained social cohesion in many countries. Yet no one has been held accountable for it. Will US pr","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/19\/2003830455","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830455","ph_attr":"Illustration: Louise Ting","ph_cap":"","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/19","ph_fname":"p07-250119-gp.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/19\/p07-250119-gp.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/19\/thumbs\/p07-250119-gp.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Slavoj Zizek","ar_views":"133","ar_id":"2003830456","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Editorials","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-19","ar_head":"Fundamentalist perverts","dp_urlname":"editorials","ar_desc":"The standard interpretation of the Russia-Ukraine war is that it is a \u201cclash of cultures\u201d pitting Western liberalism against traditional Russian authoritarianism, but this is deeply misleading. Far from being a traditionalist, Russian President Vladimir Putin is merely the latest in a series of murd","ar_url":"News\/editorials\/archives\/2025\/01\/19\/2003830456","photo":[]}]