Taiwan Weekly is a newsletter released every week by Fair Winds Foundation and Association of Foreign Relations that provides coverage and perspectives into the latest developments in Taiwan.

Terry Gou Criticizes Tsai Administration Officials as Decayed Wood, Brute Beasts

Terry Gou, the founder of Hon Hai Precision Industry Company (Foxconn), has been in the spotlight recently for crossing sords with Minister of Health and Welfare Hsueh Jui-yuan over the government’s role in the delayed procurement of BioNTech vaccines.

...read more

Ruling Party Manipulates Judiciary to Pressure Hsinchu Mayor-Elect

During the Hsinchu mayoral election, the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) did not want to lose, used all means to attack the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) candidate Kao Hung-an but still lost.

...read more

TSMC Sets Up Plant in U.S., Does Taiwan Still Have A Protector?

At the tool-in ceremony of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) new fab plant at Phoenix, Arizona, on December 6, founder Morris Chang, who has always been skeptical towards this investment, finally gave his blessing to the project in his address.

...read more

President Tsai's Favorites Exposed in Consecutive Plagiarism Scandals, Disrupting Succession

It was revealed that Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan of Taoyuan, a favored contender for the chairmanship of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and premier, committed plagiarism in completing his master’s thesis.

...read more

Significance of DPP's Major Defeat in Taiwan Local Elections

The results of the local elections were unveiled.

...read more

U.S. and Taiwan Militarily Prepared?

With the meeting between President Joe Biden of the United States and Chinese President Xi Jinping ended, there seems to be reduction of tensions between the two countries.

...read more

Biden-Xi Meeting, U.S. Midterm Elections: Impact on Taiwan

The results of the midterm election in the United States reaffirmed the polarization and populism in American politics.

...read more

Cross-Strait Relations Key in Upcoming Taiwan Elections

During his Palau trip, Vice President William Lai discussed cross-strait relations.

...read more

President Tsai Plays Two-Handed Strategy, Concealing Taiwan's Reality

Su Chi, chairman of the Taipei Forum and former secretary-general of the National Security Council, stated October 26 that President Tsai Ing-wen has divided Taiwan’s role in U.S.-China-Taiwan triangular relations into “yin” and “yang” faces (refers to a Chinese philosophical concept that describes opposite but supplemental forces), causing totally different analyses of Taiwan’s role inside and outside of Taiwan.

...read more

With Xi in Power, Taiwan More Dangerous?

On October 23, the first plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party elected new members of the Standing Committee of the Politburo and Xi Jinping entered into his third term.

...read more