When we discuss whether the United States should defend or ditch Taiwan, what we should really discuss is whether the United States should seek to maintain its supremacy in the Western Pacific and beyond.
The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) yesterday suspended plans to ease permanent residency rules for professionals from Hong Kong and Macau amid criticism of the policy, which was to begin tomorrow.
“The policy has been shelved for now. More dialogue is needed with lawmakers and the public to garner general support,” MAC Deputy Minister Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正) said.
The relaxed residency rules announced on April 21 attracted objections, with critics saying that the process was rushed, and lacked proper national security and impact assessments.
The original timetable would have had the Ministry of the Interior file for public notice tomorrow to revise the Regulations
A couple of years ago a friend got in touch with me. Her son, a nurse at a local hospital, needed a place to stay.
His hospital was technically in violation of the government regulations, which strictly apportion hospital beds based on an area’s population. Its operator, politically well-connected, simply ignored those rules and built the hospital, giving the area unneeded capacity. The twelfth-floor patient wards, superfluous, were used as makeshift dorms for the nurses.
<strong>NURSES: EXPLOITED SERFS</strong>
Because the nurses were on-site even on their alleged days off or during sleeping hours, the hospital, perpetually short of staff, would ruthlessly yank
Nicaragua severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan on Dec. 10 last year. It was the eighth country lost to China under President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) and the second time Nicaragua had let go of Taiwan under a Daniel Ortega presidency.
Being financially outmuscled by the economic allure of the world’s second-largest economy has whittled Taipei’s list of diplomatic allies down to 14.
This raises the question: Does Taiwan even need diplomatic allies? Public opinion appears to be shifting to “no.”
“I don’t even know where Nicaragua is,” said Cheng Hui-ying, an elementary-school teacher in Taipei.
As many as 60 percent of those
On Dec. 10, 2021, Nicaragua severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan. It was the eighth country lost to China under President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) and the second time Nicaragua had dumped Taiwan under a Daniel Ortega presidency.