Category Taiwan Corner

Compared with their colleagues in many other countries, the Taiwanese media stand out as aggressive purveyors of gossip. The remedy to such a culture,…

“Welcome to China” — the greeting I received at the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) National Policy Foundation in January is symptomatic of current cross-strait…

INTERVIEW: Need to ‘demystify’ ECFA: Danish analyst By Ko Shu-ling  /  STAFF REPORTER As Taipei and Beijing are negotiating an economic cooperation framework agreement…

As one of the signatories of the open letter to President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) (“An open letter to Taiwan’s president,” Nov. 13, 2009, page…

China’s allergy against any support for Taiwan keeps getting worse. As it is with allergy, it tends to be chronic and thus the best…

A world of free-trade agreements (FTA) will open to Taiwan and the nation will enjoy greater international space if it just signs an economic…

Michael Danielsen was interviewed to Taiwan’s Liberty Times and the interview was published on January 18. 2010.  The interview was done by journalist Zou,…

The climate conference in Copenhagen has become a battlefield for the old controversy between Taiwan and China. Almost like a ritual, Taiwan is not…

CROSS-STRAIT MOVES: SOAS lecturer Dafydd Fell said the government must open a ‘genuine public debate’ and not just complete negotiations behind closed doors By…

It is amazing how a historian like Sin-ming Shaw (邵新民) can display such massive ignorance about Taiwan in such a short article (“Chen’s fate…