The View from Taiwan

China Digital Times pointed me to this interview with Ma Ying-jeou on ABC radio . HAMISH ROBERTSON: The leader of Taiwan's Opposition h...

The difficulties in promoting change in Taiwan are exemplified by the steady drip of scandals emanating from the ranks of DPP appointees. Th...

Storm over Taichung For one reason or another I spend quite a bit of time in places overlooking Taichung, giving me plenty of chances to sea...

Chen is back from his 9 day trip around the world . You know your diplomatic standing is grim when the highlight of your trip is an MOU with...

Our recent Swenson's meet-ups have been highlighted by talks given by knowledgeable and interesting foreigners about some aspect of Taiw...

Bourdieu Boy has a new blog called Taiwan/China . Literate and insightful. Also added dieuwke.web-log.nl . [Taiwan] [Taiwan blogs]

The BBC has the report : After hours of talks aimed at trying to avoid a vote on allowing direct transport links, lawmakers from the govern...

Reuters reports on the words of an administration official who warns about Taiwan independence : As Chen criss-crossed the globe this week,...

The new display of Japanese propaganda images from the Sino-Japanese War is now back up . This topic has been minutely dissected on the disc...

Got this in the mail the other day: +++++++++ Hello Michael, my name is James.... I just started a website to help people learn Chinese onli...

Ryan Whelan at Taipei Nights is doing a survey of political attitudes of local students. He needs your help . I could use a favour from folk...

From the Sydney Morning Herald : Mr Ma, who will lead the Kuomintang (KMT, the Chinese nationalist party) into Taiwan's presidential ele...

Jerome Keating has developed the following letter and letter campaign to protest the treatment of Chen by the US. If you want to sign on, go...

The Chinese language has been full of reports on the progress of the man who apparently murdered his Vietnamese wife in an insurance scheme....

Mayor Ma of Taipei was in Australia this week sucking up to local politicians. Conservative Greg Sheridan at the Australian has the story .....