Taiwan

Kaohsiung beat out Washington D.C. to host WorldPride 2025.

A persistent perception gap between public and policymakers may undermine government efforts to build the island’s resilience.

Abbott’s visit may have been counterproductive both for Taiwan itself and for Taiwan’s support in Australia.

Washington has strategic, economic, and normative reasons for safeguarding the island from Chinese coercion.

Taipei has been quietly working on a conventional deterrent that lacks much of the nuclear option’s controversy.

In past electoral politics, marriage equality was seldom a dominant issue, but the landscape is shifting and some barriers to equality remain in place.

There are risks in hyping a threat.

The tightening nexus of geopolitics and geotechnology will make U.S.-China competition increasingly fraught. But Taiwan’s core challenge is not a near-term crisis.

At least one Chinese national said he had fled to Taiwan in search of “freedom and democracy,” raising questions about border security and refugee laws.

In tow was the U.S. ambassador to Palau, John Hennessey-Niland, a further sign of Washington's support for Taiwan.

Taiwan is tightening borders as a new, more contagious variant of COVID-19 spreads around the world.