That's Impossible! Politics from Taiwan

Obviously.

Tomorrow, DPP Chair Tsai Ying-wen is likely to announce her plans to run for President. I'm happy to see it and expect a (survey based,...

The DPP just officially established a pair of think tanks.The Taipei Times reports : The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday intr...

I fully expect Su Chen-chang's phrase of " Taiwan Consensus " will end up defining the DPP position vis-a-vis the KMT come 201...

We all know the answer is no, and the evidence is in the open every day. When Ma talks about the importance of the '92 consensus and ...

Thanks, President Ma, for reminding us that Taiwan officials should never use "China" but only "mainland" or "the ...

Saddest part about the Lien Shengwen shooting: when obvious reality conflicts with the rhetoric of political parties, reality loses in the ...

You might have noticed my posting rate is way down. This is largely due to me being out of Taiwan and therefore less into the daily politica...

It seems to me the DPP never manages to call out Ma on the major omission when he claims "Taiwan's future will be decided by its 2...

Hu Jintao's New Years address , again calling for coerced peaceful unification under "one country, two systems," went unnotic...

This article [CN] shows everything that's wrong with the DPP message on cross-strait relations. President Ma Ying-jeou recently made a ...

The Wikileaks release of the diplomatic cables has been accompanied by lots of government grandstanding, but I get the distinct impression t...

I thought the police were no longer providing crowd estimates like this one for the recent KMT march. But Hau seems happy with the estimate...

So Honorary KMT chairman and general nitwit Lien Chan (連戰) got to meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao at APEC this year; when talking to t...

This is pretty funny: 黃光國：「兩岸最大的問題是中共始終不願意面對『中華民國』仍然存在的事實──你不承認『中華民國』，硬是把我當成『鬼』，但兩岸談判、簽署文件總要有對象，難倒你是在跟『鬼』交涉？！」．．． －「兩岸智庫如何攜手共創未來」研討會／台大社科院、...