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News on China-Taiwan Relations

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Another source of worry?

Taipei’s mask deal deepens diplomatic row with Beijing
Apr 3, 2020 (WiC 489)

What kind of sentiment does the donation of a facemask convey? According to Sina Finance the answer is “friendship and love” in these troubled times. However, in this particular instance, the news site wasn’t referring to China’s ‘mask ...

Election landslide

Tensions will persist as Taiwan chooses Tsai
Jan 17, 2020 (WiC 479)

In early 2019 relations across the Taiwan Strait began with a gathering in Beijing to commemorate the 40th anniversary of ‘The Message of Compatriots to Taiwan’ (which ended military confrontations between the two sides; see WiC436). Chinese ...

China threatens to sanction US defence firms
Jul 26, 2019 (WiC 461)

Even though he claimed that Mazu, Taiwan’s sea goddess, had come to him in a dream to tell him to run for office, Terry Gou’s bid to become Taiwan’s leader looks to have come to an end. Last week the chairman of Foxconn, the firm best known ...

Man in the middle

Terry Gou visits the White House ahead of Taiwan’s election
May 10, 2019 (WiC 451)

When it comes to the tricky task of working out how to conduct oneself in public, it seems that little has changed since the time of the Crusades almost a thousand years ago, when Christian nations sent armies to recover the Holy Land. This ...

Taiwan’s Trump?

Foxconn boss Terry Gou is running for president in Taiwan
Apr 26, 2019 (WiC 449)

The Financial Times described him last week as “Taiwan’s disrupter-in-chief”, while the Wall Street Journal went with “a brash billionaire” that’s in the same mould as Donald Trump. The man in question is Terry Gou, the tycoon from ...

Strait for the money

Why Kaohsiung’s mayor has been branded a traitor by some in Taiwan
Apr 5, 2019 (WiC 447)

Chinese President Xi Jinping spent a week in Europe last month. His diplomatic missions included signing Italy up as a member of his Belt and Road Initiative, and trying to convince the Europeans in general that China isn’t a commercial ...

Patently obvious?

Microsoft sues Foxconn for Android royalties – Huawei might be next
Mar 22, 2019 (WiC 445)

One of the worst kept secrets in the tech world is that Microsoft has amassed hundreds of Android patents (not what you might expect, given that Microsoft would have preferred to see that operating system supplanted by its own ill-fated mobile ...

A new year non-resolution

Why Cross Strait relations got off to a turbulent start in 2019
Jan 11, 2019 (WiC 436)

China’s opening up and economic reform era began in earnest in 1979 but the ideological shift would not have been possible had the United States remained an intractable foe, as it had been in the 1950s and 1960s. A sticking point to fuller ...

Why voters punished Taiwan’s ruling party
Nov 30, 2018 (WiC 434)

If you are looking for an insight into Taiwan’s midterm election results last weekend, nothing speaks louder than the victory of Han Kuo-yu. He became the first Kuomintang (KMT) candidate in 20 years to win the mayor’s office in Kaohsiung, a ...

Two few episodes

Why Ruby Lin’s TV series was axed by Tencent
Jan 19, 2018 (WiC 394)

Foreign travellers to Beijing might have come across the Gongzhufen underground station. Its name literally means “Tomb of the Princess” – and according to Beijing folklore it was the grave of a Han girl who’d been the adopted daughter of ...

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