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The decision to purchase eight nuclear-powered submarines will have profound implications for Australia, with little or no military or defence benefit.

Two awards for contribution to the study of Sinology were announced on Monday. The first was for British art historian Jessica Rawson, named this year’s winner of the Tang Prize in Sinology. The Tang Prize was established in 2012 by Taiwanese entrepreneur Samuel Yin (尹衍樑). The second was for Slovenian Sinologist Jana Rosker, who won the Taiwan-France Cultural Award — established by the Ministry of Culture and the Institut de France’s Academy of Moral and Political Sciences — for her work introducing Taiwanese philosophy to Europe. Rosker said that Taiwan has integrated Western p...

When we discuss whether the United States should defend or ditch Taiwan, what we should really discuss is whether the United States should seek to maintain its supremacy in the Western Pacific and beyond.

The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) yesterday suspended plans to ease permanent residency rules for professionals from Hong Kong and Macau amid criticism of the policy, which was to begin tomorrow. “The policy has been shelved for now. More dialogue is needed with lawmakers and the public to garner general support,” MAC Deputy Minister Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正) said. The relaxed residency rules announced on April 21 attracted objections, with critics saying that the process was rushed, and lacked proper national security and impact assessments. The original timetable would have had the Mi...

A couple of years ago a friend got in touch with me. Her son, a nurse at a local hospital, needed a place to stay. His hospital was technically in violation of the government regulations, which strictly apportion hospital beds based on an area’s population. Its operator, politically well-connected, simply ignored those rules and built the hospital, giving the area unneeded capacity. The twelfth-floor patient wards, superfluous, were used as makeshift dorms for the nurses. <strong>NURSES: EXPLOITED SERFS</strong> Because the nurses were on-site even on their alleged days off or d...