Due to Taiwan’s wage suppression, Taiwan has lost economic growth, and growing wages faster can enable Taiwan to recover its lost growth faster.

Foxconn’s dual dependence is central to its commercial success, but also to its geopolitical vulnerability. China offers ...

On 8 May 2025, the Taiwanese government held its first official commemorative event marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day. Representatives from 17 countries and the European Union attended, ...

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This article is written by Jenna Lynn Cody and Brendan Cody. When I first moved to Taiwan 15 years ago, I remember a night of pool and beer with my then-roommates, thrown together because we were all ...

1. Geographical Constituencies: majoritarian single-member districts (SMD)Geographical constituencies in Taiwan are single-member electoral districts, akin to congressional districts in the United ...

K: When did you start performing as a Drag King? D: That happened more slowly.I only started a couple years ago, in 2019, and there’s a large community aspect to it. Skye Grimm (@sawyer_darling) was ...

It is common knowledge that the Taiwanese language arrived in Taiwan via migrants in the 1600s from Fujian. This province on China’s southeastern coast was described by historian Tonio Andrade as “a ...

The United States has been rocked by large street protests over the past two weeks, sparked by the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died while being arrested by four police officers. These ...

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 ...

The Ama Museum (阿嬤家-和平與女性人權館)—the only museum in Taiwan dedicated to the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery during World War II—first opened in 2016. Ama (阿嬤), the word for grandma in ...

The idea of a unified Taiwanese identity for everyone across all ethnic lines is a relatively new one. Up until very recently, Taiwan’s history is marked with successive bouts of foreign occupation ...