Building Taiwan’s Second Shield

The silicon shield makes Taiwan indispensable to the global economy. A second shield must make Taiwan indispensable to sustained regional defense.

The Digital Night Market: Why Threads Is So Popular in Taiwan

Threads has become something closer to a digital night market.

Honduras’ Taiwan Question Is No Longer Only About China

Taiwan’s remaining diplomatic space will not be preserved by symbolism or nostalgia, but by understanding how third-party constraints, especially those imposed by the United States, quietly structure decision making in the global south.

Rethinking Taiwan’s Silicon Shield in an Era of Managed Diffusion

Taiwan’s security has never rested on production alone, but on where the technological frontier resides.

Strategic Conditionality: The Lens, the Compass, and the Blueprint of U.S. Taiwan Policy

Taiwan’s future will not be decided solely by American resolve or Chinese restraint.

Book Review: Neighbor of China, Taiwan

Book Review: Neighbor of China, Taiwan

Stephen Corcuff parallels two regimes that has ruled Taiwan in the past: the regime of Koxinga (鄭成功) in the late 1680s, and the administration of President Ma Ying-jeou along with the Nationalists he led at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

投給小黨的票去哪了?

投給小黨的票去哪了?

雖然有近200萬的選民不能將他們最支持的政黨送入立法院,但公民團體、組織已經帶動全國性的討論風氣,台灣政治氣象將只會更加生氣蓬勃,而台灣也將成為更完善的民主國家。

放寬外勞門檻面臨強烈反抗

放寬外勞門檻面臨強烈反抗

1月21日,勞動部決定暫緩之前修正的「外國人從事就業服務法第46條第1項至第6款工作資格及審查標準」,停止大幅放寬白領外籍勞工門檻。原先提出的改善原本將會開放更多白領外勞來台灣工作。