About 6.1 million couples tied the knot last year, down from 7.28 million in 2023 — a drop of more than 20 percent, data from the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs showed. That is more serious than the precipitous drop of 12.2 percent in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.As the saying go
During the Martial Law era, the ruling Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) had branches controlling the military, the police, the public sector and schools at every level.This included the household registration system, for which police officers served as supervisors at every office. The purpose of inte
Civic groups have launched campaigns to recall legislators after improper legislation proposed mainly by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). The preposterous budget cuts and freezes that the KMT has led the way in pushing through have led to difficulties in government functioning and sparked nation
Legislators and the president are elected officials, so they should abide by the constitutional system and be held accountable for their decisions made on behalf of the public. That is how a representative democracy and constitutional government should work.Neither the president nor the legislature
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The artificial intelligence (AI) flight is taking off, and DeepSeek is the final call for India to show up at the boarding gate. Since its private sector is too risk-averse to back research projects with uncertain payoffs, the state would have to step up.The Chinese startup’s AI models, which it beg
The EU is among the most ambitious political projects in history. In many ways, it is also among the most successful, having fostered an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity on a continent plagued by centuries of violent conflict. However, amid growing geopolitical tumult and deepening economic
While global tech stocks last month were rattled by the launch of Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot model DeepSeek R1, which claims to have been made at a low cost using less technologically advanced chips, the app has been banned by a growing number of countries over
The Executive Yuan announced a complete ban on the use of the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) app DeepSeek in the public sector, a move former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Central Policy Committee director Alex Tsai (蔡正元) criticized as being “foolish beyond description.”As a result, the Mini
DeepSeek is an attack on the artificial intelligence (AI) realm, and there are eight questions and considerations to bear in mind.First, once the excitement wore off following the media storm after DeepSeek officially released R1 on Jan. 20, tech hobbyists and experts began to question whether such
A Chinese person proudly said: “From Chinese physicist Yu Min (于敏) to Chinese businessman Liang Wenfeng (梁文鋒) — back in the day, we developed hydrogen bombs. Today, we’ll do the same with AI.”Who is Yu? He is known as “the father of the Chinese hydrogen bomb.” China’s first atomic bomb in October 19
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In the final months of his term, former US president Joe Biden repeatedly warned of the growing threat to liberal democracies worldwide and the US-led framework that has underpinned global security, trade and international cooperation since the 1940s. US President Donald Trump’s actions during the f
As world leaders throw around threats about ending the ceasefire in Gaza this week, Palestinians are surveying the rubble of their homes and praying that it holds. US President Donald Trump’s suggestion that “we just clean out” the people from Gaza, and send them to live in Jordan and Egypt, has bee
Advances in drone technology and its application on the battlefield are rapidly changing modern warfare, bringing important new tactical, strategic and operational innovations, with militaries across the world investing heavily in drone research, development and training to ensure they do not fall b
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s foreign policy strategy is grounded on the principle of “autonomy from the two blocs,” which makes it a unique case as far as EU states are concerned.A case that illustrates this policy is Orban’s unwillingness to pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin into
With the manipulations of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), it is no surprise that this year’s budget plan would make government operations difficult.The KMT and the TPP passing malicious legislation in the past year has caused public ire to accumulate, with th
The world has been bewildered by constant shifts in the international situation since US President Donald Trump took office for the second time. Perhaps it is all part of Trump’s strategy — he is making many moves so that his opponents are unclear of his true intentions.The downside to this approach
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