Taipei Times
Penpa Tsering sworn in as Tibet-in-exile leader
Penpa Tsering on Wednesday was sworn in for a second consecutive term as the president of Tibet’s government-in-exile following his re-election earlier this year.Tsering, 58, h...
Indians arrive in Israel on tribal descent claims
About 240 Indians claiming descent from a Biblical tribe landed at Tel Aviv airport on Thursday as part of a government operation to relocate them to Israel.The newcomers p...
China’s ‘incentives’ are ‘poison’: official
China’s 10 new “incentives” are “sugar-coated poison,” an official said yesterday, adding that Taiwanese businesses see them clearly for what they are, but that Beijing would inevitably find some loca...
Guermantes Lailari On Taiwan: The deadly myth of kinship: Why Taiwan must reform to survive
To counter the CCP’s escalating threats, Taiwan must build a national consensus and demonstrate the capability and the will to fight.The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)...
China often breaks its promises
When political leaders speak of “peace” across the Taiwan Strait, the word carries an intuitive appeal. However, in international politics, peace rests on commitments — and not all commitments are equ...
KMT’s Cheng ‘playing with fire,’ Premier Cho says
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) is “playing with fire” with her remark that the Taiwan Strait should “never be a chessboard for interference by external forces,” Premier ...
When language and politics collide
Although the terms “language” and “dialect” refer to different things, in real life the boundary between the two is not always clear-cut, and their linguistic definitions are often influenced by polit...
EDITORIAL: KMT video sparks a backlash
On Monday, the day before Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) departed on her visit to China, the party released a promotional video titled “Only with peace can we ‘lie flat’...
Achieving peace without illusions
A delegation led by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) on Tuesday left for China, and Taiwan should respond with goodwill and measured expectations. Any high-level cross-str...
Surrendering cannot bring peace
William Shakespeare wrote in Romeo and Juliet: “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Following that logic, surrender — by any other name — would remain just as tragic.














