The sale is the first of its kind since Donald Trump took office and will upset China, which regards Taiwan as part of its territory.
The US state department has approved arms sales to Taiwan worth a total of $1.4bn, the first such deal with the self-governing island since Donald Trump took (...)
THE DECEMBER 2, 2016 phone call between Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen and American President Donald J. Trump focused new attention on the issue of Taiwan independence. The call set off two dominant reactions, both problematic. On the one hand, a troubling Taiwanese national enthusiasm (...)
US President-elect Donald Trump tweeted on December 2 that the president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-Wen, called him to offer her congratulations for winning the US election — breaking with decades of US protocol. Shortly afterward, he questioned in an interview , “I don’t know why we have to be bound by (...)
New president, old elite – assessing Taiwan’s forthcoming 2016 election from a working class viewpoint
There will be three presidential candidates competing in Taiwan’s 2016 presidential election. They are Tsai Ying Wen the leader of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Eric Chu who represents the (...)
Both inside and outside Taiwan, the research on Taiwan’s democratization has been overwhelmingly dominated by Western liberal discourses. In the mainstream liberal view, to the extent that the “most powerful collective decision makers are selected through fair, honest, and periodic elections in (...)
(March 25, 2014, Taiwan) Taiwan Rural Front (TRF) and Taiwan Farmers Union (TFU), member of La Via Campesina in East and Southeast Asia, launch an emergency appeal for international solidarity against current administration’s rush for cross-strait free trade agreement and excessive use of police (...)
On Thursday, Taiwan’s anti service trade agreement movement will leave the Legislative Yuan and the occupation will come to an end. Some of its participants think that the movement has not achieved its aims and do not want to leave. As outsiders it is difficult for us to judge. However, although (...)
April 7, representatives of trade unions and citizens’ group in Osaka went to the office of Taiwan Government to condemn the repression on the students and people. We will have a meeting on Friday this week.
We Condemn the Taiwan government for Cracking down on Students And Support the (...)
Six days after the occupation of the Legislature Yuan on March 18, because of dissatisfaction with the authorities for failing to give a positive response to the students’ demand, of “returning the trade deal to the legislature for re-considering”, on the night of March 23, hundreds of students (...)
Students were beaten by angry police at the Administrative Yuan on March 24, 2014, after five days of ongoing rallies since they had occupied the Legislature Yuan.
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Brutal Crackdown on Student Activists by Riot Police ForceBlood. Bruises. Battered bodies and souls. (...)
Since March 18th, several hundred young students have been occupying the Taiwanese Parliament for more than 36 hours. At some point they were supported by 20,000 protestors outside the parliament. They are protesting due to the simple idea of defending common people’s livelihoods from the (...)
Thu, May 31, 2012
La Via Campesina (LVC) — a global alliance of 150 farming rights groups — yesterday voiced their support for Taiwanese farmers who are struggling against forced government land seizures and said it would deliver letters to the Taiwanese government to protest the land-grabs. (...)
TAIPEI - Beijing is gearing up its efforts to achieve unification with Taiwan only a few weeks after Ma Ying-jeou of the Kuomintang (KMT), the mainland’s favorite candidate, won re-election as Taiwanese president.
Since conditions are not ripe for opening cross-strait talks on political issues, (...)
On January 14, 2012, the Taiwanese people voted for a new national assembly and president. Ma Ying-jeou, the outgoing president and chair of the Kuomintang (KMT) party, was re-elected with 51.60% of the votes, against 45.63% for the candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The KMT (...)
Taiwan’s president said Tuesday that signing a partial free trade agreement with China will help strengthen regional peace at a time when Beijing refuses to rule out the possibility of annexing Taiwan by force.
Ma Ying-jeou’s statement has been trying to improve his country’s ties with China to (...)
An economic door opens, a political one shuts
At the biggest cross-straits meeting ever last weekend , top Chinese officials detailed measures to 8,000 Taiwanese to help the island’s ailing economy – purchase missions, investment by mainland firms and 600,000 tourists this year.
Among the 8,000 (...)
The Taiwan government has pledged to spend at least US$9.5 billion (S$143.8 billion) in 2009 on various job-creation programmes, including expanded infrastructure projects.
TAIPEI (Taiwan) - THE Taiwan government has been working overtime to combat the deepening economic downturn, speeding up (...)
The complete defeat of the DPP by KMT in this past three months surely signal a historical turn in politics in Taiwan, and may have significant consequences in the geopolitics in East Asia and the US-China relations in the coming years. Taiwan is undergoing a dramatic change, so says every (...)
The chance of President Chen Shui-bian’s pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) holding on to its ruling party position in the March 22 presidential poll is in serious doubt after his party suffered a major defeat in the January 12 parliamentary election.
The recent election was (...)
On September 21, the UN General Assembly supported by consensus a decision by the 22-member General Committee not to put Taiwan’s bid for UN membership on the assembly’s agenda. It was the island’s 15th application for UN membership in as many years. This year was the first time that the (...)
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