The silicon shield makes Taiwan indispensable to the global economy. A second shield must make Taiwan indispensable to sustained regional defense.

Why is the social media platform Threads so popular in Taiwan? According to industry analytics data, Taiwanese users contribute over 21 percent of global traffic to Meta’s Threads platform, despite ...

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) has a demographic dilemma, which is intimately tied to an ideological dilemma. Its primary goal of ‘reunification’ with China, which the KMT considers the “Mainland ...

This is a translation of the original 進步本土的小黨，如何成為有政治實力的第三勢力？ by Yi-Hsuan Lin (林邑軒), a journalist and columnist ...

In the first week of 2026, the Chinese Communist Party rehearsed a new blockade of Taiwan, including several hours of live-fire exercises targeting both the northern and southern approaches to the ...

This article was originally published by Global Taiwan Institute in its weekly newsletter, The Global Taiwan Brief, Vol. 9, Issue 15. Used with permission. To get the ...

There’s a cliche popular in Taiwan that Taiwanese education is “Confucian” or based on the philosophy of Confucianism. This is used as praise where it succeeds: high standards, high societal respect ...

On Wednesday the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) included Taiwan-caught fish on its latest release of the “List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor” in a move which may force the industry ...

This article was originally published by Global Taiwan Institute in its weekly newsletter, The Global Taiwan Brief, Vol. 9, Issue 9. Used with permission. To get the ...

Taiwan’s GDP per capita is expected to exceed US$40,000 next year. Also, Taiwan’s GDP per capita and cost of living is now on par with Spain, Slovenia and Japan (left chart below). But how does Taiwan ...

Taiwan’s low wages rank among the longstanding top concerns of Taiwanese, and while Taiwan’s GDP has seen faster growth in recent years, Taiwan’s wage growth remains subpar. Among Organization for ...

In 1985, Taiwan witnessed the birth of its first test-tube baby conceived through Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART). In 2007, following numerous negotiations between the governing and opposition ...