Most young people in Taiwan would choose not to fight in a potential cross-strait conflict despite growing military threats from Beijing, according to informal interviews by the South China Morning Post. In several interviews, Taiwanese youth revealed a reluctance to fight that stemmed mainly from concerns about the life-threatening nature of war and Taiwan’s military…
Taiwan-based publisher Li Yanhe has been convicted on secession charges in Shanghai after nearly two years of detention, according to Taiwanese media. According to a report by Taiwan’s Central News Agency, the mainland’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) on Monday confirmed that Li had been indicted on secession charges and “faced a public trial in accordance…
Beijing’s top spy agency has accused four members of the Taiwanese defence ministry’s Information, Communications and Electronic Force Command (ICEFCOM) of conducting cyberattacks against the Chinese mainland and churning out fake news. In a social media post on Monday, the Ministry of State Security (MSS) published the names and photographs of the leaders and staff…
Taipei, March. 5 (CNA) Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) confirmed Wednesday the detention of a Taiwanese national in Hong Kong, a member of a delegation “led by” opposition Kuomintang (KMT) legislative caucus whip Fu Kun-chi (傅崐萁) to the Chinese Special Administrative Region in February. The detained individual, a travel industry operator from Hualien County, was…
Taipei is intensifying its crackdown on Taiwanese who apply for mainland Chinese identity cards in its latest effort to counter Beijing’s growing influence on the island’s population. The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) has vowed to take stringent action against people found in violation of local laws, which prohibits the holding of valid identity documents for…
Former Taiwanese leader Ma Ying-jeou has vowed to protect the island’s deep-rooted cultural and historical ties with mainland China while accusing the ruling Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) of having a “misguided political agenda” in attempting to sever these links. “In the past several decades, Taiwan has played a vital role in preserving and promoting Chinese…
A push by Taiwan’s main opposition party to improve cross-strait relations is coming under pressure from the island’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The annual Taipei-Shanghai Twin City Forum – set for Tuesday – hangs in the balance as Taipei mayor Wayne Chiang Wan-an faces growing demands to cancel the event if Beijing continues to…
Former Taiwanese leader Ma Ying-jeou will visit mainland China later this month, his third visit in the past two years, in another push to promote people-to-people exchanges amid elevated cross-strait tensions. Ma will lead a delegation of Taiwanese youth to visit the cities of Harbin in the northeast and Chengdu in the southwest on a…
China should proactively engage with Donald Trump early in his second presidency, but must be prepared for a “hard bargain” and to “shoot back” if need be, a noted Chinese academic and policy adviser has said. “This is going to be a [US] government that only one person governs, and that is Donald Trump ……