Taiwan court rules against surgery requirement for legal gender change
LGBTQ+ advocates are celebrating the ruling, but want legislation to secure rights.
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Ahead of chair election, a critical moment for Taiwan’s KMT
Taiwan's main opposition party is electing a new chairperson on Saturday. Incumbent Johnny Chiang and former chairman Eric Chu are the frontrunners, but keep an eye on Chang Ya-chung, who favors reunification with China.
After calling Xi, Biden considers pressuring China over trade, Taiwan
A day after Joe Biden had an apparently amicable phone call with Xi Jinping, the Biden administration was reported to be considering multiple moves that would strain U.S.-China relations.
In Taiwan, a contentious quest for ‘transitional justice’
In recent years, Taiwan has been trying to rectify the wrongs from its “White Terror” period, nearly four decades of martial law. But critics say the current ruling party, the DPP, is using “transitional justice” as a cudgel against its political opponents.
Soul-searching in Taiwan after Afghan fiasco, but is it just ‘immature bedwetting’?
“We can’t rely on the U.S.,” said a senior official from Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on condition of anonymity. Despite the U.S. and Taiwanese governments publicly resisting the comparison — and many analysts poo-pooing it — the withdrawal of international troops from Afghanistan and its dramatic aftermath has fueled fresh doubts in Taipei about American security guarantees.
Beijing recalls Lithuania ambassador in another shock to EU-China relations
In response to Lithuania establishing a “Taiwanese representative office,” China said it would withdraw its envoy to Vilnius, and demanded the Baltic nation recall its ambassador in Beijing. It was not the first time this year that the small EU member state had upset Beijing.
America’s second most senior diplomat heads to Tianjin, the Chinese capital’s satellite city
A top U.S. diplomat is heading to China for talks with her counterparts, but no one expects much to change as China-U.S. relations continue to deteriorate.
China’s rise is ‘unstoppable,’ Xi declares in Tiananmen speech marking 100th anniversary of CCP
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s message for the nation and the world: The Communist Party is here to stay, inseparable from the Chinese people, and its guidance has been indispensable to China’s “rejuvenation” and now-unstoppable development.
The politicalization of COVID vaccines in Taiwan
A recent outbreak of COVID-19 in Taiwan has exposed flaws in the government’s pandemic response plans. While the ruling Democratic Progressive Party attempts to get things under control, its political enemies are circling.
No, China will not invade Taiwan
In mainland China, fear of Taiwanese independence feeds the fever of traumatized nationalism, unites domestic rivals around a shared national dream, and serves as a never-ending threat that justifies enormous military expenditures — but not for war.