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<strong>Pro-China narratives</strong> Recently, Yibao Online published an article, said to be written by a Chinese civilian living in China, titled “Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) must step down for destroying the country.” The article has sparked such public debate in Taiwan that during a question-and-answer session at the Legislative Yuan, National Security Bureau Director-General Chen Ming-tong (陳明通) was asked to give his opinion about the stability of Xi’s “reign.” If you read the article, you might be disappointed to find that it does not carry as muc...

With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine compounding the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, most world leaders are not in an optimistic mood, as they face days of turmoil and economic stress. Amid these challenges, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (李克強), in his annual report to the Chinese National People’s Congress on March 5, said that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) aims for “stability” in its relations with Taiwan and the world. Surprisingly perhaps, Li mentioned “stability” 81 times. Li’s focus raised a few eyebrows, as China is typically a nation bent on growth. Granted, most cou...

This week Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) members Alexander Huang (黃介正), its Director of International Affairs, Eric Huang (黃裕鈞), the party’s Washington representative and Johnny Chiang (江啟臣), former party chairman, teleconferenced at Columbia University for “Cross-Strait and US-Taiwan Relations from the [KMT] Point of View.” The teleconference was stimulated by the recent move by the KMT to re-open its offices in Washington, closed for the past 13 years. This move to resume a presence in the US capital was apparently sparked by Eric Chu (朱立倫), the current party c...

Before Chinese President Xi Jinping had a dream, his predecessor Hu Jintao had a wish: the “peaceful reunification” of China and Taiwan. In fact, all of Xi’s predecessors since Mao Zedong founded the People’s Republic of China in 1949 have pined for the reabsorption of Taiwan into the motherland—it has always been one of China’s self-defined “core interests,” and its paramount

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