Taiwan

Taiwan Travel Experience: Amazing Cuisine and Business Opportunities

Doreen Hegemann is a Germany-based business coach and strategy consultant, and is also an honorary member of the board of the European Women’s Management Development Network (EWMD). She paid her first visit to Taiwan in 2000 after she came across a Taiwanese studying the English language in Scotland in 1995 and was interested in the ...

Billy Shyu

Why Is China Incapable of Innovating Like the West?

The Chinese government has launched the “Made in China 2025” project with the aim of making the country the global hub of cutting-edge technology and gain market dominance in fields ranging from aerospace, biotechnology, alternative energy, and so on through innovating products. This seemed to have irked the U.S., which sees the policy of the ...

Nspirement Staff

Why Taiwan Doesn’t Want to Follow in Hong Kong’s Footsteps

When it comes to Taiwan, the Chinese Communist Party has split opinions. While one group wants to use military might to force Taiwan to integrate with China, another group advocates for discussions and incentives that will bring on the unification. This in a way shows the strong impact Taiwan has had on its neighbor — the ...

Max Lu

People attending a protest against Taiwan being reunified with mainland China under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party.

A Guesthouse With a Pomelo Orchard and Cypress Wood Decorations

It is known to many that Taiwan is the second-most densely populated country in the world, second only to Bangladesh. But most people may not know that Taiwan’s guesthouse (民宿) density ranks first in the world. Please watch the following video about the Happy Guesthouse. According to Taiwan regulations, guesthouses are hotel-like lodgings that have ...

Billy Shyu

Everything You Need to Know About the ZTE Scandal

One of China’s biggest corporations, ZTE, is now embroiled in what is essentially the biggest embarrassment for a Chinese business operating in the United States. The telecommunications company has been charged with multiple accounts of fraudulent and unethical business practices in the ZTE scandal. The ZTE scandal ZTE supposedly agreed to U.S. sanctions against Iran ...

Nspirement Staff

ZTE

Trump Goes Toe-to-Toe With Beijing on Trade

June has been a big month for U.S.-China relations. Firstly, President Donald Trump announced tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese imports. This was done, the POTUS said, to encourage China to change its unfair practices in respect to technology and innovation. “They also serve as an initial step toward bringing balance to our trade relationship with ...

James Burke

Details of the True Impact of China’s Ban on Plastic Waste Imports

While recycling is often touted as the solution to the large-scale production of plastic waste, upwards of half of the plastic waste intended for recycling is exported from higher income countries to other nations, with China historically taking the largest share. But in 2017, China passed the “National Sword” policy, initiating China’s ban on plastic ...

Troy Oakes

Girl Fights to Change US Constitution for Presidency

Educational methods and ideas can profoundly affect a person’s entire life. Under two different social systems, the children of China and those of the United States have very different world views and attitudes toward society. This is a story about a Chinese girl who was adopted by a couple in Kingston, Massachusetts, at the age of ...

Nspirement Staff

How Did Kim Jong-un Travel to Singapore?

How did Kim Jong-un travel to Singapore on Sunday June 10 for his landmark summit with President Trump? This is a subject of great interest to me. Dictators are very fearful of plane crashes and hijackings. In fact, Kim arrived not in his own aircraft, but on a more reliable Air China Boeing 747 — ...

Nspirement Staff

Kim Jong-un and entourage at airport in Singapore.

Study Shows Benefits to Veterans With PTSD Who Have Service Dogs

A new study shows how veterans with PTSD may benefit physiologically from using service dogs. This study, led by the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine, is the first published research to use a physiological marker to define the biobehavioral effects of service dogs on veterans with PTSD. The findings were published in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, and they ...

Troy Oakes

Kerri Rodriguez and Maggie O'haire.