The Taiwanese representative office in Ireland has responded to MEP Mick Wallace’s claim that “Taiwan is part of China,” saying that “Taiwan is not part of China, nor will it be in the future.” In exclusive comments to Gript, the Taipei Representative Office in Ireland issued a statement on the Irish MEP’s remarks. “Taiwan is […]
Heroic paragon of virtue Mick Wallace bravely stands up to the evils of Western imperialism – by defending Chinese imperialism instead. I’ll tell you one thing – if there’s an nasty, militant, non-Western regime that Irish MEPs Mick Wallace and Clare Daly don’t sympathise with at least to some extent, I haven’t heard of it. […]
‘Full-scale invasion”?
Despite all the recent troubles with Russia or Belarus, the EU diplomats know well that, as The Economist put it not so long ago, the Taiwan Strait is geopolitically the most challenging part of the world. Any conflict in this area could draw major nuclear power into a war, over an island, which is not […]
A Taiwanese youth who had worked in Shanghai for four years once told me that, when she read books in the bookstore during her leisure time, she would often find herself thinking: these books were abridged; when going to the movies, she thought: these were cuts. With incomplete content and no information about its validity, […]
A Taiwanese youth who had worked in Shanghai for four years once told me that, when she read books in the bookstore during her leisure time, she would often find herself thinking: these books were abridged; when going to the movies, she thought: these were cuts. With incomplete content and no information about its validity, […]
The threat that emerging infectious diseases pose to global health and the economy, trade, and tourism never ceases. Pandemics can spread rapidly around the world due to international aviation and transport. As of March 2021, a novel form of pneumonia that first emerged in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019 and has since been […]
Mark Roche, who lives in Taiwan but originally hails from Dublin, has become the first Irish person to complete Taiwan’s 100 Peaks Challenge. The challenge requires climbing 100 Taiwanese mountains, each of which is over 3,000 metres tall. Whilst Taiwan has 268 3,000+ metre mountains the 100 mountains that make up the 100 Peaks Challenge […]
Since the inclusion of China into the World Trade Organization (WTO) by the Clinton Administration, some politicians in the United States have continued to labour under a dubious illusion: that after the advancement of China’s economy, its politics will gradually democratize. This illusion has finally been shattered by recent events. Evidence that has gradually emerged […]
United Nations votes to expel the Chinese Nationalist ruled Taiwan and admit the Communist People’s Republic of China #gript Photo: Chinese deputy foreign minister Qiao Guanhua (L) and Huang Hua (R), laugh at the news that the UN General Assembly had passed Resolution 2758, recognising Chinese mainland as the only Chinese representative in the UN, […]
The Taiwanese community in Ireland has continued its series of donations to Irish care homes with donations this week to the Castlemanor Nursing Home, Oak View Nursing Home and College View Nursing Homes in Cavan. Since March the Taiwanese community in Ireland has donated nearly 20,000 pieces of PPE to long-term care facilities in this country. The […]
Brazilians are rushing to congratulate Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on her democratic reelection following the leak of a letter, sent by the Chinese Embassy in Brazil to the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, asking that “necessary preventive measures” are taken to ensure that Brazilian lawmakers did not celebrate, or even acknowledge, the President’s inauguration ceremony. The document was leaked by Paulo Eduardo […]