This article is based on a Taiwan Report podcast, Taiwan Report News Brief–DPP Factions, prepared for Ketagalan Media by the author. Recently, while working on an entry in an upcoming book, the ...

With the 2016 general elections right around the corner, the island nation of Taiwan will once again exercise its hard-won democracy in a contest heralding exciting political change. On January 16, ...

In 1985, Taiwan witnessed the birth of its first test-tube baby conceived through Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART). In 2007, following numerous negotiations between the governing and opposition ...

In recent years, the Taiwanese government has worked actively to consolidate cultural resources, using public funding and platforms such as the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) to connect ...

On the first day back in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order temporarily suspending all U.S. foreign aid programmes for 90 days, pending a review to determine their alignment with ...

The popular protest movement of May 2024 is now referred to as the “Bluebird Movement” (青鳥行動, qingniao xingdong). The choice of this name Blue bird deserves an explanation, as much as the choice of ...

This article is partially based on a Taiwan Report News Brief podcast. Who becomes the next KMT chair is more important that most people realize. It will determine who leads the party into the 2022 ...

This article is by Emilie Hu, a senior at Scripps College and a GTI intern in the Fall of 2020. Originally published by the Global Taiwan Institute in its weekly newsletter, The Global Taiwan Brief, ...

This article was originally published by Global Taiwan Institute in its weekly newsletter, The Global Taiwan Brief, Vol. 6, Issue 12. Used with permission. To get the Global Taiwan Brief in your inbox ...

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 ...

This article was originally published by Global Taiwan Institute in its weekly newsletter, The Global Taiwan Brief, Vol. 9, Issue 9. Used with permission. To get the ...

Over the past two or three years, countless scholars and journalists from around the globe have traveled to Taiwan, drawn by its reputation as “the most dangerous place on Earth.” However, upon ...