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Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Several days after the life of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was cut short by an assassin, a coalition of councilors supportive of Abe’s political agenda last week won a two-thirds supermajority in a Japanese House of Councilors election — enough seats for an amendment of Japan’s post-World War II constitution. The effort to build a political coalition large enough to amend it has been a 72-year marathon. Finally, Japan appears to be on the cusp of becoming a normal nation state. If Article 9 of the pacifist constitution were to be amended, it would allow the Japan Self-Defen...

Artists supporting Xinjiang cotton By Chu Meng-hsiang 朱孟庠 I have always held a deep respect for the broad-mindedness and open nature of true artists, as opposed to those cold-blooded artists for hire who abandon their values for a few gold sovereigns. The fundamental difference between these two types of artists lies in the strength of their convictions, which dictates whether they will hold fast to their beliefs when they are severely tested, or simply cast them aside as extraneous flotsam. Chinese-American actor Ryan Jiang (姜光宇) is a Falun Gong practitioner. He received the �...