Legislative backsliding threatens democracy
Compared with their colleagues in many other countries, the Taiwanese media stand out as aggressive purveyors of gossip. The remedy to such a culture, however, is not the updated Personal Data Protection…
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Government policy will sow further division
“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 developments in Taiwan. The government’s cross-strait package of…
INTERVIEW: Need to 'demystify' ECFA: Danish analyst
INTERVIEW: Need to ‘demystify’ ECFA: Danish analyst By Ko Shu-ling / STAFF REPORTER As Taipei and Beijing are negotiating an economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA), the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) needs to…
Democratic liberty is fundamental
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 8), I would like to respond to the…
China's allergy reactions will continue
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 remedy is to stay away from what actually…
Aiming for FTAs that would help Taiwan
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 cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with China. At least,…
(The Weekly interview) with Michael Danielsen: Signing FTA with other countries can defend Taiwan’s sovereignty better
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, Jing Wen from Liberty Times. (The Weekly interview)…
Opinion: Hvem spørger Taiwans befolkning?
Only available in Danish. Michael Danielsen: Taiwan har nemlig ikke ansøgt om observatørstatus ved konferencen, hvor ansøgningsfristen var 7. august. Herudover bliver det statsstøttede Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) listet direkte som…
Conference unites Taiwan, PRC
The climate conference in Copenhagen has become a battlefield for the old controversy between Taiwan and China. Almost like a ritual, Taiwan is not invited to the climate conference despite the fact…
ANALYSIS: Foreign academics urge Ma to seek public consensus
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 Ko Shu-ling STAFF REPORTER Published in Taipei Times…
Unreliable comments on the Chen conviction
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 should act as a lesson,” Sept. 17, page…
Is democracy dying?
Taiwan appears to be losing its democratic brand, and believers in democratic values and human rights should look on with grave concern at recent developments. We may be witnessing a fundamental change…
An open response to Open letter, part 2
Published in Taipei Times on Thursday July 09. 2009. On behalf of the Government of the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan, I am writing in response to the “Open letter to…
An open response to Open letter, part 1.
Published in Taipei Times on July 6 2009. On behalf of the Government of the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan, I am writing in response to the “Open letter to Taiwan’s…
A road to unrest and subservience
President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) has been in office for a year, and if he continues with his current policy direction he will be recorded in history books as the president who ensured…