Four decades after the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was founded under martial law, its pioneers recall the risks they took, the democratic changes they helped bring about and the challenges faci...

It wasn’t supposed to be this difficult. Chiang was supposed to coast to an easy reelection victory. He is young, good looking, likable, And, most importantly, he hasn’t had a major scandal in his …

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has released a new report detailing the Chinese regime’s efforts to impose its propaganda across the information space worldwide. Since 2013, Chinese leader Xi Jinping ...

On Friday, MeToo journalist Sophia Huang Xueqin was released from prison. She returns to a landscape changed by censorship, and a new generation of feminists

Last year alone, China’s Supreme Court judgement database recorded close to 200,000 mentions of exit bans. This count of mentions is for published judgements, not of individual exit bans or people…

The comical bit of parachute journalism by Simon Shuster in the Atlantic last week under the title “Will Taiwan Just Give Up?”, drew much attention for its numerous minor errors, largely forgivable, i...

Green Party Taiwan: The First Thirty Years, co-authored by Dafydd Fell, Peng Yen-wen, and Wang Yan-han, is an insightful look at the history of one of Taiwan’s most influential third parties. The book...

We cannot properly understand the climate crisis in Asia when an important part of it remains behind a mountain of political censorship and control.

After enjoying great success in eliminating Taiwan’s formal diplomatic ties, it has turned its attention to the island’s quasi-embassies, called representative offices. One reason is that persuading T...

The KMT’s plan to slash the news channel’s budget would hinder Taiwan’s ability to counter disinformation and tell its own story.

The making of Chen Yu-hsun as Taiwan’s humanist fabulist... For much of the twentieth century, Taiwanese cinema reached international audiences through a relatively small group of celebrated auteurs. ...

The Chinese government is interrogating Uyghur Australians visiting Xinjiang, pressing them to collect information on Uyghurs in Australia.

The Legislative Yuan yesterday approved three referendums, which would be voted on alongside the local elections in November. It voted down a proposal on a referendum about legalizing euthanasia. The ...

The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Public Media Alliance issued statements urging the legislature to stop the proposed budget cuts to the Public Television Service (PTS) and Taiwan Plus, as t...

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Taiwanese television has entered a remarkable period of creative success. During the past decade, dramas such as The World Between Us (我們與惡的距離), Gold Leaf (茶金), Light the Night (華燈初上)…

Each year, thousands of Taiwanese ring the island as a rite of passage. Now, a growing number of tourists are cycling it, and experiencing a side of Taiwan few outsiders see.

The tragedy of Lobga Rangzen is a reminder of how easily unresolved questions can fade from international discourse without ever truly being resolved.

Papua New Guinea didn’t switch recognition to China but its example changes the game, signalling Taiwan’s international space is shrinking further.

Thirty-nine community groups in Australia and around the world issue a statement rejecting and strongly condemning China's ethnic unity law.

Political commentator and former journalist Akio Yaita was attacked earlier this week by a Chinese man. The attack occurred while Yaita was speaking at a conference organized by the Spring Rain…

Taiwan pushes back every day against an authoritarian vision of international order that allows dictator regimes to decide who’s allowed to be seen, named and heard.

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According to human rights experts across the region who participated in the annual human rights survey conducted by the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI), a New Zealand-based NGO…

Man described by campaigner as 'a tireless advocate for Tibet' pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

China has a right to target people outside of its borders who contravene its new law on ethnic unity, a senior official said on ​Wednesday, adding that this was in line with international practice, an...

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A Uyghur Human Rights Project report by Elijah Pockell-Wilson. I. Key Takeaways Forced-labor risk is being redistributed, not eliminated. As the United States enforces the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevent...

What is a left position on Taiwan? This question was posed to us – the three editors of praxis, Rebecca Karl, Aminda Smith, and Fabio Lanza – at a recent social event in New York. The query came from ...

Jimmy Lai, founder of the Apple Daily newspaper, which was forcibly shut down, has been imprisoned in Hong Kong for 2,000 days. His health has deteriorated dangerously as he continues to be subjected ...

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