The district of Yuexiu in Guangzhou is a diorama of the early history of the CCP and the KMT. It is a blood-stained landscape in miniature, however, and one that looks capable of repeating itself.
Chinese or Taiwanese? Nana Ou-Yang is at the center of a political firestorm
This weekโs Sinica Podcast is now live. This week, we feature the second half of an extensive interview (first part here) with Shelley Rigger, a...
Xi Jinping has dangled economic carrots with hopes that political consensus will follow. But the majority of Taiwanese citizens have little interest in abandoning their democracy.
Last month, 31 indigenous representativesย signed an open letter condemning the โhegemonyโ of Xi Jinping โ but donโt interpret that as full-throated support for Taiwanโs current...
Did Xi Jinping, in a January 2 speech, misjudge the will of the Taiwanese for self-dependence โ and inadvertently revive Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wenโs political...
On New Yearโs Day, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen (่ก่ฑๆ Cร i Yฤซngwรฉn) gave a speech (English, Chinese) in which she describes โfour mustsโ (ๅๅๅฟ ้ sรฌgรจ bรฌxลซ)...
Elections in Taiwan on Saturday saw the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (ๆฐ้ฒ้ปจย mรญnjรฌndวng), which is broadly pro-independence, lose its majority to the Kuomindang (ๅๆฐ้ปจ guรณmรญndวng), which...
On Saturday, the people of Taiwan headed to the polls to cast ballots for nearly 11,000 officials, in local elections โ think mid-terms โ and...