The EU has a unique opportunity to shape a democratic and prosperous Indo-Pacific, and Taiwan should be a key pillar of that ...

The idea of a unified Taiwanese identity for everyone across all ethnic lines is a relatively new one. Up until very recently, Taiwan’s history is marked with successive bouts of foreign occupation ...

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) has a demographic dilemma, which is intimately tied to an ideological dilemma. Its primary goal of ‘reunification’ with China, which the KMT considers the “Mainland ...

The aftershocks of Taiwan’s steadily decreasing birth rate are beginning to catch up to its 158 universities, forcing institutions with shrinking enrollment rates to face the daunting question of ...

Image: A protest organized by the Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation (婦女救援基金會) outside of the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association (日本台灣交流協會), Japan’s unofficial representative office in Taiwan (August 14, ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, while Taiwanese citizens and foreigners have had the option of undergoing a mandatory 14-day quarantine in their residence or in a subsidized quarantine hotel, migrant ...

There’s a cliche popular in Taiwan that Taiwanese education is “Confucian” or based on the philosophy of Confucianism. This is used as praise where it succeeds: high standards, high societal respect ...

Recently, while working on an entry in an upcoming book, the Encyclopedia of Taiwan Politics, I did a deep dive into Taichung’s local political factions. Local political factions are almost all ...

Taiwan Can’t Have Digital Transformation If It Doesn’t Fix Its Digital Inequality Taiwan is offering government assistance to Taiwanese companies in China in a bid to entice them to bring their ...

In order to consolidate and maintain control of Taiwan, the KMT felt that they were obligated to extinguish all criticism with a strong fist. While the majority of Taiwanese (benshengren) felt too ...

[1] “Europe” and the “European Union” are used interchangeably in this article, referring to a unique partnership among 27 European countries, also known as Member States or EU countries. (Featured ...

Due to Taiwan’s wage suppression, Taiwan has lost economic growth, and growing wages faster can enable Taiwan to recover its lost growth faster.