Minister unveils Chip Team Taiwan initiative

The negotiations are part of Taipei’s effort to harden its telecommunications infrastructure in a potential conflict with China, akin to Ukraine’s defensive use of SpaceX’s Starlink network against ...

Lawmakers divided over group tourism

Lawmakers yesterday engaged in a feverish debate during a meeting of the legislature’s Transportation Committee over whether the ban on tour group travel to China should be lifted. The debate followed ...

Why Taiwan’s Constitutional Court Is in Danger

Legislators from the leading party in Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan are moving to pass an amendment that could effectively paralyze the Constitutional Court. Under the proposed changes to the Constitutional Court Procedure Act,

International Maritime Law and the Taiwan Strait

The U.S. and Japan consider the central part of the Taiwan Strait to be international waters, meaning military vessels may freely transit those waters. China, however, strongly opposes the transit of European or American military vessels through the Taiwan Strait.