Much of the current debate around Taiwan’s “silicon shield” treats semiconductor policy as a zero-sum equation. In this telling, Taiwan either keeps production tightly concentrated at home and ...

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 ...

In my recent Ketagalan Media article, I argued that Taiwan’s Silicon Shield is no longer defined by static geographic concentration but by a strategy of managed diffusion. The core claim was that ...

This article was originally published by Global Taiwan Institute in its weekly newsletter, The Global Taiwan Brief, Vol. 11, Issue 9. Used with permission. To get the ...

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 ...

This article was originally published by Global Taiwan Institute in its weekly newsletter, The Global Taiwan Brief, Vol. 6, Issue 12. Used with permission. To get the Global Taiwan Brief in your inbox ...

This is a translation from the original 高房價是低生育率元凶嗎？ by Chiang Ping-lun (江昺崙), a Tainan based activist. Originally published by Voice ...

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. 10, Issue 4. Used with permission. To get 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 ...

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 ...

I was unaware of Taiwan’s red-white-and-blue flag before the age of sixteen. The Taiwanese flags in my Ahma (grandmother) and Ahkong’s (grandfather) suburban New Jersey home were exclusively green and ...