Years ago, reading Taiwan-focused journalism in most international news outlets was a kind of torture. Most were sludge, positioning China...

I don't know why this photo resonates vis-à-vis this post, but it did. It doesn't matter if they're locals or immigrants -- more...

Sometime around 1916, my great-great grandfather converted to Islam.  Five generations later, nobody in the family knew about it. It wasn...

Borrowed (ok, yanked) from Chen Yen-han's Twitter feed So much has been said about the name "Chinese Taipei" that I hadn't...

I don't have a good cover photo tie-in so enjoy this one just because I like it. Earlier this week, a few well-meaning people shared foo...

The face of every analyst if China invades Taiwan   By Thadtaniel McDorpington III The world has changed . Over the past decade, we have wit...