This month, the Ama (grandma) Museum will open in Taipei. It will be a venue dedicated to Taiwan's wartime "comfort women" who provided sexual services under duress at Japanese military brothels. The opening of such a museum is surprising because Taiwanese tend to have a ...
Taiwan President-elect Tsai Ing-wen's diplomatic honeymoon with China could be short-lived if she allows the Dalai Lama to visit the self-ruled democratic island that Beijing claims as its own, two senior political sources said. China regards Tibet's exiled spiritual leader as a separatist, and Ma ...
Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou made a critical mistake in 2008 when he hitched Taiwan's economy to China.
Xi Jinping, Donald Trump and Jack Ma star in our awards for the most inept, self-interested and narcissistic people of 2015.
The Singapore summit set a precedent for leaders in China and Taiwan to meet as equals as far as protocol is concerned, regardless of which party is in power in Taiwan.
Cross-strait relations took a welcome step forward last week when the leaders of China and Taiwan met in Singapore.
The scene is March of 2000: Taiwan appears set to elect an opposition leader as president in a move that is sure to upset its relationship with Beijing. Then-Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji issues a finger-wagging ultimatum: "Do not just act on impulse at this juncture, which ...
Saturday's historic summit in Singapore between the presidents of China and Taiwan may have surprised many, but the sides first broached the subject about two years ago, and the leaders had their legacies very much in mind. For Chinese President Xi Jinping, the summit may ...
Some observers see the announcement of the first talks in 66 years between China’s president and the leader of Taiwan as a further sign of Beijing’s readiness to take risks.
Taiwan's Presidential Office said Tuesday night that Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou will travel to Singapore this weekend to meet his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in what will be the first meeting of leaders from the two sides of the Taiwan Strait since they split ...
President Ma Ying-jeou says it is important to remember the good things Japan did for the island while it was its colonial power.
Taiwan on Friday called on the Japanese government to keep examining its wartime aggression and learn a lesson from history on the eve of the 70th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. Presidential Office Spokesman Charles Chen said President Ma Ying-jeou expressed hope ...
