A US federal jury on Aug. 20 found US Navy sailor Wei Jinchao, also known as Patrick Wei, guilty of espionage for selling classified defense information to Chinese intelligence operatives for US$12,000. The case against the 25-year-old again highlights a troubling trend of the Chinese Communist Part
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will stop at nothing to weaken Taiwan’s sovereignty, going as far as to create complete falsehoods. That the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has never ruled Taiwan is an objective fact. To refute this, Beijing has tried to assert “jurisdiction” over Taiwan, pointin
Foreign media have reported that US President Donald Trump might visit South Korea at the end of next month to attend the APEC leaders’ summit, where he could meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平).This potential meeting would likely revolve around three central themes.First, the establishment
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Indonesia has not suffered a major terrorist attack in more than two years, but this calm is deceptive. The threat has shifted online, making it harder to detect and potentially more insidious.This is not an isolated problem. The Islamic State group used online radicalization and recruitment to draw
With the obvious exception of Ukraine, no country has more to lose from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s warmongering than Poland, which shares a border of more than 483km with its battle-weary neighbor to the southeast. The boundary with Russian puppet-state Belarus stretches for an additional 40
The Brazilian Supreme Court has handed down severe penalties to former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and seven other defendants, including three high-ranking military officers, for conspiring against democracy and attempting a coup d’etat. In Bolsonaro’s case, the sentence was 27 years and thre
The TAIEX last week climbed to record highs for five consecutive sessions as foreign funds snapped up local shares amid signs that the US Federal Reserve would cut interest rates this week. Market sentiment was further buoyed by the annual Semicon Taiwan trade show, which helped fuel positive outloo
In 2021, a theft occurred in Xichang in China’s Sichuan Province. After the thief, a man surnamed He (何), was caught, he allegedly asked the police to arrange a meeting between himself and the victim, a woman surnamed Liu (柳). Upon meeting her, He said: “I did not even want your money. It was just t
In an article published by the Harvard Kennedy School, renowned historian of modern China Rana Mitter used a structured question-and-answer format to deepen the understanding of the relationship between Taiwan and China. Mitter highlights the differences between the repressive and authoritarian Peop
Few issues unite residents and foreign visitors more than the conviction that Taiwan’s roads are dangerous. Scooters weaving between cars, buses edging into crosswalks and pedestrians dodging vehicles in poorly designed intersections are part of everyday life. The consequences are tragic: Taiwan rec
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You might have read that Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is planning to “import millions of Africans and Kurds” into Japan — and that this is why he is stepping down.Maybe you have seen the plans for Tokyo to designate special “hometowns” within the country that would become free havens for A
“Democracy is the way that we have diverse societies that don’t kill each other, largely,” Lilliana Mason, a leading academic of partisanship, said recently. She added: “As soon as we stop believing in it, it disappears.” Mason’s own research suggests that there is sharply rising tolerance of politi
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a nation of reasonable size and prosperity must be in want of a semiconductor industry. India is no exception to the global rush to subsidize chip fabrication; the government set aside US$10 billion for new facilities in 2022 and it has plans to double tha
A consultation session among political party caucuses late last week decided that the legislative session, which typically begins on Sept. 1, would begin on Friday.Over the past two weeks, controversies over the allocation of government revenue and expenditures have sparked accusations between the c
Modern democracy was born in Europe. It was carried by the currents of history across the Atlantic and into the Indo-Pacific region, where it has taken root, flourished and branched outward. In Taiwan, democratic governance was achieved through a century of persistent struggle and sacrifice by gener
On Sept. 3 in Tiananmen Square, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) rolled out a parade of new weapons in PLA service that threaten Taiwan — some of that Taiwan is addressing with added and new military investments and some of which it cannot, having to rely on t
Modern global politics has been deeply shaped by the European model of development. Constitutional monarchies and democratic republics that emerged from England’s and France’s imperial transformations defined the foundations of modern governance and exerted worldwide influence. The US and the Soviet
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