The KMT has signaled that it intends to press ahead with efforts to institutionalize caning as a punishment for severe crimes. Such crimes would include sexual assault, child abuse…

Kaiser Kuo’s “The Great Reckoning” is something less than an argument. It is instead a number of disconnected gestures, intended to cast doubt upon Western hegemony and suggest the ascent of China as…

On the Brink: A Military History of Taiwan by Eric Setzekorn is a well-researched history of the Taiwanese military. As Setzekorn notes, the work fills an existing gap in the literature. If there are ...

Taiwanese academic Tsai Chin-shu has returned to Taiwan, nearly eight years after his arrest in China. Tsai was the head of the Southern Taiwan Union of Cross-strait Relations Associations and…

The Trump-Xi meeting that took place in Washington DC over the weekend largely proved to be a non-event. Relatively little of consequence was remarked upon by the two leaders, except the two sides…

Taiwanese government officials, speaking under conditions of anonymity to the media, have warned that China may roll out national security legislation directed at Taiwan in the coming months.

After much political contention about the budget earlier this year–including Taiwan’s defense spending–the KMT eventually relented and passed the national budget after over 200 days of stalling at the...

John Hsu’s ghost film Detention (2019) adapts a popular video game from the company Red Candle. Set in Taiwan’s oppressive White Terror era (1947-1987) under Chiang Kai-shek and his son, the film’s Ch...

A recent article in the New York Times ranked Taipei lowest out of the 72 cities that it assessed in terms of climate preparedness. In the wake of the article, the two Taipei mayoral candidates–Puma…

Uncommitted provides a look at the organizing efforts of Palestinian American members of the Democratic Party in the course of the 2024 presidential election season

Workers at one of Taiwan’s best-known snack companies, Kuai Kuai, have voted in favor of a strike…

The following letter serves as a digital memorial to Sherry Yue (she/they; 邱梓榳 Chiu Zi Ting, known affectionately as 玥餅 Yuèbǐng by her friends), who died by suicide on April 16, 2026 at the age of 26.

A number of changes are set to occur in the migrant work landscape in Taiwan going forward. For one, the first batch of migrant workers in the hospitality field has arrived…

Once platforms become cross-border infrastructure, they carry more than prices, ratings and labor practices. They can carry political sovereignty.

The Moody Blues was being disingenuous in rhapsodizing “Letters I’ve written / Never meaning to send.” To be precise, the rock band was doing nothing but sending it in “Nights in White Satin” (1967), ...

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At the start of this month, Taiwanese and Indonesian groups submitted the first complaint to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) under the new National Contact Point complaint system.

Set in a near-future South Korea on the cusp of conflict, “Before the Call” offers a personal story of a man adrift between worlds

According to Taiwanese national security officials, leaked Chinese government documents show the extent to which China engages in checkbook diplomacy…

The Ministry of Labor has warned Foodpanda over docking worker pay for delayed deliveries. In particular, Foodpanda delivery drivers currently face pay being docked for delays of between one to five…

A number of recent cases touch on questions of corruption ahead of the upcoming local elections. In particular, issues of corruption remain rife at the local level, and it is probable that there will…