The View from Taiwan

China's practice of economic nationalism means that it is will always move toward reducing or blocking imports while attempting to get t...

Here is the text of the Joint Letter to Speaker of the Legislature Wang as discussed in the post below this one: ++++++++++++++++ The Honora...

As the Taipei Times reported today , a major event in Washington DC Thursday brought together 16 Taiwanese-American organizations to argue t...

This week a pile of polls came out. Let's take a look: In the City Formerly Known As Taipei County (Sinbei or Xinbei or New North City),...

Businessweek has the skinny : Taiwan’s economy grew at the fastest pace in more than 30 years last quarter on surging sales of computer chip...

Even as Taiwan implements mandatory environmental educatio n, Wild At Heart takes out ads on buses in Taipei publicizing megagiant corporati...

Lots of ECFA stuff out there this week, with President Ma talking to the media continuously since the debate with DPP Chairman Tsai. It almo...

A one-off, or a signal of a growing trend that could impact the November local elections? For the first time in many years several pan-Green...

Some of you may recall the case in March in which the Taipei Times reported that " Expat Bailed after hit and run ". The report as...

Welcome to tomorrow: China's real soft power is its ability to get potential critics in the West to self censor , as an essay in the New...

The new movie from the director of Cape No. 7. _______________________ [Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog an...

Signs of the times: the amendments last month to impose restrictions on what sort of data can be revealed about individuals : In its second ...

Canada was saved from war with China at the last minute as brave Ottawa Mayor Larry O'Brien called off Falun Dafa Day : Less than a mont...

Like the Shadow out of Mordor, integration with China through financial integration with China proceeds apace as the KMT reassured markets ...

I was just going to put a link to this, but it deserves a whole post. If you read one thing today, you must read Ethan Guttman 's awesom...