Julia Nikhinson/REUTERSThe foreign minister of Taiwan has called out Elon Musk directly after the billionaire appeared to suggest the island was an “integral part of China” much like Hawaii is part of the United States.Joseph Wu’s rebuke, in a post late Wednesday on Musk’s own Twitter/X network, followed Musk’s appearance at a tech summit in Los Angeles where he predicted that “one way or the other” the Chinese were determined to take over Taiwan.It‘s the second time in a week that a foreign nat
Taipei Anyone in China who remembers the Tiananmen Square protests will remember Wu’er Kaixi. As thousands of students began a hunger strike in May 1989, premier Li Peng held live, televised talks with the protest leaders. Wu’er Kaixi, then 21, turned up to the talks in hospital pyjamas, oxygen bag in tow, and berated the
Friday, August 18, the Embassy of Taiwan (Republic of China) proceeded during a ceremony, to the presentation of certificates to 23 new Haitian scholarship recipients of the scholarship program of the Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
William Lai, who is also the DPP’s candidate for the 2024 presidential election, is expected to transit through New York and San Francisco in mid-August.