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The DPP’s defense budget this year proposed a 6.6 percent increase in defense spending to NT$647 billion (US$21.8 billion), or about 2.5 percent of GDP. The opposition only cut the budget by about 1.2 ...
Citing UN General Assembly Resolution 2758, it said that South Africa “recognizes the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as the ...
In this week’s episode of China Insider, Miles Yu reviews the latest report from Hudson Institute’s China Center, China after ...
The failure of the recalls does not reflect a re-evaluation of cross-strait policy preferences. But it does send a clear ...
Since the election of President Lai Ching-te (賴清德), Taiwan’s political landscape has been deeply fragmented. The DPP won the presidency but lost its legislative majority to the KMT and its coalition ...
The "Great Recall" of over two dozen opposition lawmakers in Taiwan was a great disappointment for the president and his progressive supporters.
The Blue-White alliance between the two parties helped see off an effort to unseat 24 legislators over the weekend.
Last weekend’s recall vote failed to pass, securing the position of Kuomintang lawmakers who, along with Taiwan People’s ...
An unprecedented move backed by Taiwan President Lai Ching-te to unseat more than a quarter of the island’s legislators was overwhelmingly rejected during the first of two “recall” elections.
We get an update about life on the ground in Kyiv. Then: recall elections in Taiwan shift relations with Beijing. And: Dubai ...
The bitterly fought campaign reflects sharp infighting in Taiwanese ruling circles fuelled by the intensifying US-led drive ...