Ma Ying-jeou

Interview with former Chief Investigator of the Anti Corruption Agency (ICAC), in Hong Kong.

This is not the first time that the conduct of elected officials in Taiwan has left the Chinese netizens in amazement.

Pro-independence party candidate Tsai Ing-wen claimed victory in Taiwan’s presidential election late Saturday to become the island’s first female head of state.

It is uncomfortable for the communist authoritarian mainland to face a thriving and robust democracy right at its doorstep.

Opposition leader Tsai Ing-wen had hoped that President Ma would represent Taiwan fairly and equally before China.

The leaders of China and Taiwan met Saturday for the first time since the formerly bitter Cold War foes split amid civil war 66 years ago, and though no concrete agreement resulted, both hailed the meeting as a sign of a new stability in relations.

Taiwan’s president will meet Saturday, Nov. 7, with his counterpart from once icy political rival China, the Taiwanese side said, a historic first culminating nearly eight years of quickly improved relations despite wariness among many Taiwanese of the authorities on the mainland.

Taiwan’s president will meet Saturday with his counterpart from once icy political rival China.

October is generally a time of celebration in China. But this year, it has brought the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) much trouble.

Taiwan student movement leaders announced on Monday that they would cease occupying parliament on 6 p.m., April 10, three weeks after they began protesting against a trade pact with China.

In the day following a violent eviction of students from government quarters in Taiwan on March 24, residents have been reflecting on its implications for the country.

The British Vice President of the European Parliament has called on Taiwan’s president to defend democracy and freedom of expression.

A Chinese microblog dedicated to Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has gone viral.

A march of tens of thousands on Sunday expressed that frustration, as well as opposition generally to Ma Ying-jeou, the president and head of the Nationalist Party, whose administration has been characterized by China-friendly policies.

While Taiwan’s recent election may have given mainlanders an inspiring taste of democracy, dissidents in and out of China fear that the election’s outcome is a setback for hopes for achieving democracy on the mainland.

China’s state television channel is accused of deliberately altering the sequence of a Taekwondo match it broadcast.