Only available in Danish. Anmeldt af Michael Danielsen Der findes forskellige bøger om Taiwans historie, men det er sjældent at finde en bog som “Taiwan: en politisk historie” er skrevet af Denny Roy. Bogen er yderst velskrevet, seriøs og meget…
Who are the Taiwanese? Where are they originally from and what are the major trends in Taiwanese politics today? For many people in the United States and Europe, Taiwan is an unknown, faraway place. Some older people remember it as…
Only available in Danish. Det er nu et år siden, at Taiwan og Kina indgik en historisk frihandelsaftale under navnet ECFA. Aftalen blev sat i søen med store politiske ambitioner i Taiwan om øget handel og mere international plads til…
In 2008, President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) came into office with a solid majority in the legislature. Three years later, and observed from an international perspective, it is disappointing to see how few original and inspiring ideas Ma and the Chinese…
China is directly urging Taiwanese voters to re-elect President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) to stop “secessionist” activities that promote independence, as stated by Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Chairman Jia Qinglin (賈慶林). By Michael Danielsen, Chairman of Taiwan Corner.Published in Taipei…
Taiwan is broadly considered as a hi-tech country that has created a democratic miracle during the 1990’s. However, despite this great achievement, the official name of Taiwan is still “Republic of China (ROC)”, a country that ceased to exist in…
Given the immensity and proximity of the Chinese market, it would be impossible for Taiwan to ignore the elephant in the room and hope to stay afloat economically. This is something that even pro-independence governments under former presidents Lee Teng-hui…
Published in Taipei Times on April 11. 2011. Dear President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九): We the undersigned, academics and writers from the US, Canada, Europe and Australia, are writing to you to express our concerns about a recent new development: the…
What is Taiwan’s identity? What does it mean to be Taiwanese? At a recent conference in Taiwan, Democracy Building in Interesting Times a speaker spoke accordingly, “Here we don’t have the issue of one China, two systems; we have the…
In these troubled times, Taiwanese know they are different but they may not always be able to verbalize how different they are. From the Japanese era on, Taiwanese had begun to gain a unified sense of their difference. At that…