Given the long-standing rivalry between China and South Korea, Viktor Ahn, who was hired as a technical adviser for the Chinese national short-track team in the lead-up to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, was a rare South Korean celebrity who enjoyed near unanimous love from Chinese internet users. But no longer.
Mike Pompeo’s visit to Taiwan last week made global headlines. But reports that he was paid $150,000 by Taiwan’s diplomatic office in the U.S. — and may have lobbied for Taiwanese public money on behalf of a U.S. investment fund — has cast his trip in a different light.
The impact of sanctions on Russia for China's economy might not be large in the short-term, but will supercharge Beijing's campaign for technological self-sufficiency.
Taiwan’s chipmaking giants, TSMC and MediaTek, are expanding fast. But a tense geopolitical climate threatens to dethrone their reign over the global semiconductor industry.
Recent debates over Taiwan’s identity as Chinese, or part of China, focus on the awkward arrangement by which governments in Taipei and Beijing both claim sovereignty over the island. In 1947, questions of national identity were also rampant in Taiwan, but the fault lines were very different.
Some commentators have speculated that China may use Russia's invasion of Ukraine as pretext to make a move on Taiwan. But this line of thinking is fallacious and premature, experts warn.
A court case that began this week in Taipei touches on the contradiction between Taiwan’s goal of creating a multicultural society and the entrenched structures of an overwhelmingly majority-Han society.
After Lithuania allowed Taiwan to open a “Taiwanese representative office” in its capital, Vilnius, last November, China has escalated its diplomatic and economic pressure on the EU state.
Sixty countries, including the U.S. and EU member states, will now accept Taiwan’s official digital vaccine certificate as proof of vaccination or PCR test results.