Taiwan
Selling Secrets to the Mainland: Military Espionage in Taiwan (part 2)
The question of why so many Taiwanese military officers would betray their country is a complicated one, as complicated as the six-decade plus relationship between China and Taiwan itself.
By Tim Daiss | Notebook | Thursday, 28 February 2013 at 4:00 am
Selling secrets to the mainland: Military espionage in Taiwan (part 1)
Cross-Taiwan Strait relations between China and Taiwan have thawed in recent years. China, who until the late 1970s was firing artillery shells toward the island nation, has supposedly taken a softer approach to what it considers a renegade or breakaway Chinese province.
By Tim Daiss | Notebook | Wednesday, 27 February 2013 at 3:29 pm
China-US trade wars are an eerie Charybdis of despair
The pace of China’s unprecedented economic growth has allowed the Chinese to broaden their horizons in regional and international affairs, much to the annoyance of its great western rival the US, but they are still under criticism for ‘unfair’ trade regulations. What gives?
By Mohammad I. Aslam | Notebook, Opinion, iPolitics | Tuesday, 12 June 2012 at 4:40 am
Sex selective abortions in Taiwan
Last year, Taiwan’s fertility rate became the world’s lowest, dropping from 1.03 in 2010 to a record low of just 0.9 in 2011. The government blamed the decreasing birth rate on people’s superstitions about which zodiac years were best for bearing children. It seems many people were waiting for the year of the dragon, which starts next week and is considered a particularly auspicious period to be born in.
By Simon Cotterill | The Foreign Desk | Tuesday, 10 January 2012 at 10:40 am
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