An Indian woman named Prema Wangjom Thongdok on Nov. 21 was detained and deported, with her birthplace of Arunachal Pradesh, India, cited as the primary point of contention during her engagement with ...

Beijing’s ironic, abusive tantrums aimed at Japan since Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi publicly stated that a Taiwan contingency would be an existential crisis for Japan, have revealed for all...

COVID-19 lockdowns in China transformed the way people think about their health. As a result, many are starting to run, hike or play tennis, altering the way they live and dress.The cou...

Her friends warned her not to go, but pro-Tibet activist Zhang Yadi (張雅笛) wanted to see her family, and so traveled home to China this summer, hoping the trip would go as smoothly as previous visits.

In A phone call between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平), Xi is reported to have stated that in his view, “Taiwan’s return to China” is to be considered an integral par...

For more than seven decades, the Chinese Communist Party has claimed to govern Tibet with benevolence and progress. I have seen the truth behind the slogans. I have listened to the silences of monks f...

The government is enacting the Comprehensive Action Plan to Establish Defense of Democracy Systems and the Comprehensive Acti...

With their round bodies, big ears, and cute name, pikas are often called the “real-life Pikachu.” Though often mistaken for rodents, pikas are actually close relatives of rabbits and hares. Pikas typically grow about to 20cm in length, with short limbs and no visible tail. They live in high-altitude regions across North America and Asia, where freezing temperatures and rocks define their world.

On Tuesday last week, the Italian senate introduced a motion calling on the Italian government to act through international institutions to protect the rights of Next Digital founder Jimmy Lai (黎智英), ...

China’s requirement that the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation to be born in China and approved by Beijing has drawn criticism, with experts at a forum in Taipei yesterday saying that if Beijing were to put ...

A Chinese diplomat’s violent threat against Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi following her remarks on defending Taiwan marks a dangerous escalation in East Asian tensions, revealing Beijing’s gr...

A coalition of lawmakers from around the world would support bills and measures to counter China-backed transnational repression...

In the face of authoritarian challenges, resilience is key to the survival of democracy, former president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said in a keynote speech yesterday at the Berlin Freedom Conference....

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has a dystopian, radical and dangerous conception of itself. Few are aware of this very fundamental difference between how they view power and how the rest of the world does. Even those of us who have lived in China sometimes fall back into the trap of viewing it through the lens of the power relationships common throughout the rest of the world, instead of understanding the CCP as it conceives of itself.

Taiwan Retrocession Day is observed on Oct. 25 every year. The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government removed it from the list of annual holidays immediately following the first successful tran...

The election of Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) as chair of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) marked a triumphant return of pride in the “Chinese” in the party name. Cheng wants Taiwanese to be proud to call themselves Chinese again.

Holding court for the cameras in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, last week, a manically self-congratulatory US President Donald Trump, Gaza’s make-believe savior, hailed his fellow “tough guys” — tame tyrants...

Denial of passports to Tibetans is not simply an inconvenience but a calculated tool of political control, cultural erasure and religious suppression. By restricting mobility, the Chinese state vio...

There were many excellent presentations at the 5th World Con...

Between Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China (PRC), with which India shares a contested land border, India and its civil society seem to have moved much closer to the former, notwithstanding the ...

In recent weeks the Trump Administration has been demanding ...

Rescuers were helping hundreds of hikers trapped by heavy snow at tourist campsites on a slope of Mount Everest in Tibet, Chinese state media said.About 350 hikers had reached ...

For decades, the Tibetan services of Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA) served as lifelines — beacons of truth, piercing the fog of censorship that envelops Tibet. These broadcasts were ...

US lawmakers and activists across the political spectrum called on US tech firms to stop selling surveillance equipment to Chinese police and for the US Congress to examine the issue after The Associa...

Both the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) love to boast in their textbooks that “the Chinese nation is a peace-loving people.” Yet the vast empire that grew from w...

The Taiwan Bubble Tea Festival was held in Rockville, Maryland, on Saturday, one of the largest events promoting Taiwanese culture in the greater Washington DC area. The event also featured booths rep...

A new political generation is reshaping Nepal’s future. For ...

Nepal’s new leader yesterday vowed to follow...

Do not mistake the photographs of Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at Beijing’s Victory Day parade for a new world order. Xi is in no position to lead one.

In an alarming escalation of diplomatic coercion, the Chinese government has imposed sanctions on Hei Seki, a naturalized Japanese citizen, member of the Japanese House of Councilors and an outspok...