BEIJING, Oct. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Men forget, and history overlooks. But history is not, and must not become, a blank page to be written on at will, as there are courageous individuals like ...

BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -China and Taiwan have clashed over their competing interpretations of history in an escalating war of words over what Beijing views as provocations from Taiwan's government, ...

In his inauguration speech last May, Taiwan’s new president, Lai Ching-te, evoked the year 1624—when the Dutch East India Company established a fort on the island—as the year that “marked Taiwan’s ...

For decades, the relationship between China and Taiwan has sat on the edge of conflict — with China viewing Taiwan as a “renegade province” that must be returned by force if necessary. David Sacks, a ...

TAINAN, Taiwan — On a Friday morning in the southern city of Tainan, Shuixian Gong Market overflows with displays of shiny orange and silver fish, stacks of glistening pork ribs and crates of dragon ...

A decades-long debate at the heart of Taiwan's identity and history is roiling once again: whether to remove hundreds of statues of former authoritarian leader Chiang Kai-shek. Taiwan inaugurated a ...

Tainan is considered the culinary capital of Taiwan. At one of the oldest wet markets in that Southern city, Shuixian Gong Market, the island's vibrant cuisine is on the display. There are displays of ...

During the 1980s a young intellectual called Yang Bi-chuan used to give illicit history lectures in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. Charismatic and fearless, with a frizz of unruly hair, Yang was only ...

Acheson, D. 1950. “Excerpts from Acheson’s Speech to the National Press Club,” January 12, 1950. https://web.viu.ca/davies/H102/Acheson.speech1950.htm Baker, N ...

During a recent party leaders' debate in the Diet, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi claimed that "(Japan), under the Treaty of San Francisco Peace, having renounced all rights" and "is not in a ...

Taiwan has endured a long history of colonization. As a trip to the culinary center of Tainan reveals, those outside forces have helped create a... Feast your eyes on Taiwan's distinct food (and ...