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Taipei, Nov. 26 (CNA) Student groups and NGOs expressed their disappointment Saturday evening at the failure of a referendum initiative that would have lowered the voting age in Taiwan from 20 to 18, and they hinted at other steps to address the issue.
The referendum, which asked voters to (...)
The 2022 midterm elections have, in some ways, been characterized by the absence of any animating core issue.
In part, this is due to the fact that local elections–also referred to as nine-in-one elections–are not primarily about cross-strait relations. Instead, they are focused on local, (...)
During the Cold War, US officials saw Taiwan as an “unsinkable aircraft carrier” and supported Chiang Kai-Shek’s dictatorship. Modern-day Taiwan has developed a democratic culture that shouldn’t be subordinated to confrontation between Washington and Beijing.
In September 18, President Joe Biden (...)
Beijing, in the first two weeks of August, on top of conducting a war drill against Taiwan to protest the visit to the island by Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the United States House of Representatives, released a White Paper on the Taiwan issue to update its one China policy and its offer to (...)
ADMIRAL MICHAEL GILDAY, who heads US naval operations, recently raised eyebrows with comments at an Atlantic Council event suggesting that China’s timeline for an invasion of Taiwan could be shorter than the 2027 window previously suggested by now-retired Admiral Philip Davidson, who made (...)
Tsai Ing-wen compares China’s ‘bullying’ to Russian invasion of Ukraine on de facto national day
Taiwan’s president has called for domestic political unity to combat Chinese disinformation and cyberwarfare destabilising society before next month’s local elections.
Addressing crowds at Taiwan’s de (...)
ONE WONDERS when Jacobin will eventually get any Taiwanese voice to write–or even comment–on the possibility of conflict between the US and China that engulfs Taiwan. Their latest proves another article by Branko Marcetic, who is apparently the leftist magazine’s go-to-writer on Taiwan.
As should (...)
THE TAIWAN POLICY ACT cleared the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week. This clears the way for the bill to be discussed and voted upon by the US House of Representatives and Senate, with some warnings that China may take a strong response to the bill. The bill passed the committee by a (...)
THE KMT HAS experienced further controversy regarding the 1992 Consensus, following a recent interview by party chair Eric Chu with Deutsche Welle, as well as an article published by the CPPCC Daily, a Chinese state-run media outlet. It may not be surprising to note that both incidents have (...)
At the beginning of August , the tension rose by a (big) notch after Nancy Pelosi’s whirlwind visit to Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, and Beijing’s “over-reaction”. Even though the invasion of the Island was never on the agenda at that point, the dynamics of militarization of the Asia-Pacific (...)
THERE HAS BEEN significant discussion in Taiwan of how to respond to Chinese drones on outlying islands of Taiwan in the past few days.
Namely, this became an issue after a video circulated on Chinese social media earlier this week showing Taiwanese troops throwing rocks at a Chinese drone on (...)
US SENATOR Marsha Blackburn arrived last week on Thursday for a visit that ended on Saturday. This proved the third visit by a US delegation since the start of the month, following a month of whirlwind visits following a historic visit to Taiwan by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. The Pelosi (...)
FOLLOWING US SPEAKER of the House Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, tensions in the region seem set to escalate. Although in a recent Pentagon briefing, US government spokespersons claimed that they had anticipated China’s moves, China’s actions still came as a surprise.
For example, most (...)
“We must break the vicious cycle of provocations and stop the nuclear arms race in the East Asian region by tenacious anti-war resistance to the remilitarization.”
Shortly after arrival of US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, China began military drills surrounding the (...)
There is much talk from Beijing about how the island has been part of China since time immemorial. The reality is more complicated
he American sinologist Lucian Pye famously said that China is a “civilisation pretending to be a nation-state”. But it is precisely the opposite: China is a modern (...)
There is much talk from Beijing about how the island has been part of China since time immemorial. The reality is more complicated
The American sinologist Lucian Pye famously said that China is a “civilisation pretending to be a nation-state”. But it is precisely the opposite: China is a modern (...)
Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan has further raised tensions between the USA and China, already at a heightened level. Charlie Hore looks at the background to the visit and asks what the USA expected to get out of it.
Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan was clearly a provocation to China. What’s less (...)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit to Taiwan has set off a diplomatic firestorm between the U.S. and China. It also triggered China to engage in massive military exercises in the Taiwan Straits, while the U.S. carried out its own military exercises amidst its increased power projection in (...)
In her effort to change the status quo with, Nancy Pelosi might get just the war that she wants to prevent.
When I visited Taiwan in the early 2000s, I was struck by how politically vibrant the country was: the accessibility of the leadership, the intensity of the civil society, the diversity (...)
JACOBIN’S LATEST confused foray into commenting on Taiwan proves to be a video on its YouTube channel, the Jacobin Show, featuring Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad. Following on the heels of an article that labeled individuals that brought up the exclusion of Taiwanese voices from a conversation (...)
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