The government’s reaction of withdrawing its economic and technical assistance from any country that decides to switch ties from Taiwan to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is completely understandable, but is punishing scholarship students for the decisions that their governments made the right thing to do?
Taiwanese taxpayers cannot be asked to continue to support cooperation projects in countries that chose to break their relationship with Taiwan. Those countries are sure to receive more than enough economic incentives from the PRC government.
However, taking financial assistance away from students, who are sometimes as young as 17 years old when they arrive
On Sunday, Honduran citizens will head to the polls to elect a new president and the chances of left-wing candidate Xiomara Castro becoming the next president of Honduras are quite good, local and international polling has shown.
A study published by Fitch Solutions Country Risk and Industry Research found that Castro’s candidacy was boosted when Salvador Nasralla, former presidential candidate for the Savior of Honduras party, exited the race. Nasralla has since joined Castro’s efforts to bring to an end the 12-year rule of the National Party in Honduras.
During the National Party’s tenure, the relationship between Honduras and Taiwan has
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) earlier this month called on the public to remain united in the fight against COVID-19, indicating that her government would spare no effort to contain the disease, which has already surpassed 10,000 cases. These words come when we need them most, and remind us that we are in this fight together.
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) seems to have forgotten this, choosing to launch attacks against the Tsai administration for political points instead of looking for bipartisan solutions.
Whether this tactic resonates with the KMT base is yet to be seen, but the largest opposition party
After almost 18 months of successful prevention efforts against the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus found a way through Taiwanese defenses. The government is channeling all its resources to contain the outbreak, which has dramatically increased the number of victims, and to import as many vaccines as possible to inoculate its population.
The government began vaccinating Taiwanese at the end of March using the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, with the first batch of Moderna COVID-19 shots arriving in Taiwan last month. The vaccination campaign is expected to intensify later this month, when, according to Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中),