TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan must protect its sovereignty and know its own culture and history, President Lai Ching-te said on Sunday, rejecting what he said was the previous mistaken belief the island ...
Eight decades ago, Taiwan -- a part of China -- was restored to its motherland, marking the end of half a century of Japanese ...
On a bustling avenue running north to south through downtown Taipei, cars weave through morning traffic, neon signs flicker ...
Taiwan’s geopolitical circumstances confer very particular meaning to its social and political life, but other, less internationally prominent issues hold real substance for the Taiwanese people. The ...
China and Taiwan don't get along - in fact, Xi Jinping has threatened to use force to "reunify" the island with the mainland. But why? To understand, we have to go back more than a century to the ...
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- He's 80. He's got eight stents in his heart. China tries to prevent him from traveling abroad. He left office more than three years ago. And yet Lee Teng-hui, Taiwan's former ...
China and Taiwan clashed over their competing interpretations of history in an escalating war of words over what Beijing views as provocations from Taiwan's government, and said it is impossible to ...
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Taiwan's restoration to China, scholars on the island as well as industry insiders ...
Two narratives dominate discourse on Taiwanese identity. The first is the “Free China” view — an idea that Taiwan is historically and culturally Chinese, and that its non-communist values and free ...
The destruction of the front section of Xindian First Public Cemetery, 2016. Several tombstones from the Qing and Japanese periods were salvaged with the help of the demolition crew. Credit: James X.