With Beijing deciding to impose the National Security Law in Hong Kong, damaging the democratic foundations of the city, many Hongkongers are planning to flee to other nations. And to many people desperate to leave Hong Kong, Taiwan is a natural destination since it shares a similar culture and values. The government recently announced a ...
While the world is trying its best to keep the COVID-19 spread in check, another virus from China is creating problems for Taiwan. Decapod Iridescent Virus 1 (DIV1) has apparently affected a number of shrimp and crayfish hatcheries across the island nation. As a result, thousands of these creatures have been culled following the direction of ...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says more countries are rejecting doing business with tools of the Chinese Communist Party’s surveillance state, such as telecoms equipment giant Huawei. Due to security concerns, Pompeo has long fought a campaign against Huawei, which was recently named by the Trump administration as being one of 20 companies owned ...
A recent report by Human Rights Watch warns that China is pushing the Tibetan language to extinction through its policy of bilingual education. The policy has been implemented in the Tibetan region for more than a decade and has fostered the growth of Chinese language schooling at almost all education levels, sacrificing the study of ...
Since Wikipedia is a website people access to get a general overview of a topic, being represented correctly is a necessity for countries like Taiwan. For some time, pro-Chinese groups have insisted that it could only be referred to as a “state” in East Asia. However, after an intense debate, the editors of Wikipedia seem ...
Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary-General of NATO, recently warned that China’s increasing influence was triggering a fundamental shift in global power that cannot be overlooked. He wants the NATO alliance to be involved deeply in global political affairs, as well as aid nations in the Asia-Pacific region to counter China’s dominance. The China threat Stoltenberg stated ...
A relationship with all the bitterness (and no tenderness) of a lover’s quarrel — what would happen if North and South Korea decided to unite to form a unified Korea? Some analysts have pointed to a “glorious” future where Korea would have the world’s largest army, and an economy that bests Japan. If the huge ...
Starting north of Hualien City and ending south of Taitung City in eastern Taiwan, the Hualien-Taitung Coastal Highway (花東海岸公路), also known as Highway No. 11, is a picturesque coastal highway in Taiwan. Spanning a length of about 177 km (110 miles) along the Pacific Ocean, in addition to the picturesque scenes of the sky and ...
The recent violent India-China border clash has made for some of the hottest international news in the past few days. Both nations are upcoming economic, military, and nuclear superpowers. As such, there is great interest in knowing what exactly happened between the two nations. The clash took place in eastern Ladakh (a border Indian state) ...
William Callaghan is a 14-year-old boy from Australia who has been diagnosed with non-verbal autism, a condition that disables a person from speaking. Recently, the autistic boy disappeared into the mountains during a family hike. Fortunately, William was found two days later on a mountain. When the family initially discovered that William was missing, they ...
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