As Japan weathers pressure from China after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said last month that an attack on Taiwan would constitute a ‘survival-threatening situation’, Taiwan’s own opposition parties risk undermining that support. Two weeks after …
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While the results of Honduras’s 30 November elections have not yet been finalised, both presidential candidates Salvador Nasralla and Nasry Asfura have signalled openness to restoring diplomatic relations with Taiwan. After years in which Beijing …
China’s pressure campaign aims to bend Taiwan toward eventual annexation. But sustained coercion could weaken the liberal nature of its democracy even without a loss of sovereignty. The danger is that countering coercion can gradually …
Australia’s strategic outlook shifted decisively when Japan announced this month that a conflict over Taiwan could constitute a threat to Japanese national survival. That statement, unprecedented in Japan’s postwar history, alters the prospective structure of …
The Economist called Taiwan ‘the most dangerous place on earth’ in 2021. For the island’s 23 million people, that danger isn’t abstract; it’s a daily reality shaped by the constant shadow of conflict. Across the …