Published since 2019 by the Fair Winds Foundation and Association of Foreign Relations, Taiwan Weekly provides in-depth report and analysis of the major issues facing Taiwan.
China Holds Military Drills Against Taiwan; Cross-Strait Tensions Resurge
The tensions in the Taiwan Strait have recently risen again as the People's Liberation Army (PLA) announced to hold military drills in the Taiwan Strait including the northern and southern ends of the Strait.
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China Military Exercise, Replica of 1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis？
Against the backdrop of increasingly tense U.S.-Taiwan and cross-strait relations, China is conducting multi-directional and multi-service combat exercises at the northern and southern ends of the Taiwan Strait.
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First Battle Will Be the Last？ Ma May Have Misspoken but Doesn't Mean Tsai is Right
Former President Ma Ying-jeou was invited to the Rotary Club to give a speech on "Cross-Strait Relations and Taiwan's Security".
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Taiwan's Strategic Shift： From Defensive to Offensive
The quietest but most influential move of the administration of President Tsai Ing-wen in its first four years was to change Taiwan's strategic role.
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This Week in Taiwan 0810-0815
August 11: Secretary of Health and Welfare Alex Azar of the United States visited Taiwan for four days from August 9 to 12. He attended a ceremony witnessing the signature of a U.S.-Taiwan memorandum of understanding on health cooperation. When he met with President Tsai Ing-wen, Azar praised Taiwan's epidemic prevention achievements as an example to the world. Azar added that his trip is meant to express President Donald Trump's strong friendship with and support of Taiwan.
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Dominating Government Bids, DPP Supporters Are Biggest Beneficiaries
Facing the surging wave of the bribery scandal by legislators, President Tsai Ing-wen came to the forefront and said that the law serves as the bottom line on ethics.
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Long Live Marketing！ Secrets Behind the Monopoly by DPP's Middle-Aged Generation
According to this newspaper's investigation, although there is a prepared list of 4,000 some members of review committees by the Executive Yuan, six former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)'s party officials always appear on the review committees of various government tender cases.
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Party, Government, and Media Monopolized by the DPP
Recently, President Tsai Ing-wen asked its members to take actions to disprove the saying that "full governance leads to corruption" at the ruling Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) National Congress.
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Taiwan Must Not Become a Pawn in U.S.-China Confrontation
U.S.-China relations, starting from the trade war in 2018, has been all the way spirally sliced down.
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This Week in Taiwan 0802-0809
August 3: Office of the President Secretary-General Su Jia-chyuan was allowed to resign post because his nephew, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Su Chen-ching, became involved in a corruption scandal. Straits Exchange Foundation Chairman David Lee will succeed as secretary-general to the president. President Tsai Ing-wen also warned her administration that those who wish to make a fortune should take other roads. Political power must not be used for personal gain, which would only destroy the people's trust in the administration.
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