Misha Tadd shares his thoughts during the World Conference on China Studies Shanghai Forum in Shanghai in November. [Photo provided to China Daily] Misha Tadd, a distinguished sinologist specializing ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te on Thursday vowed to defend the self-ruled island's sovereignty in the face of China's "expansionist ambitions," days after Beijing wrapped up ...

The military exercises conducted by Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theater Command on Monday have drawn close attention across the island of Taiwan, numerous voices have criticized ...

Dec. 26 (UPI) --Taiwan President William Lai Ching-te and Premier Cho Jung-tai face impeachment proceedings filed by opposition party leaders accusing them of constitutional and legislative violations ...

Communist China’s state-run media is reveling in the latest political challenge to Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, who is facing an impeachment bid from two opposition parties over his failure to ...

Lao Tzu's classic Chinese text from the sixth century BCE has much to teach us today. Lao Tzu meditates on breath, enjoining the reader to practice breathing like a baby; reflects on hsu, or emptiness ...

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te spoke via video during the New York Times DealBook Summit Wednesday. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said China has shown recent signs ...

Live journalism from The Times. © 2026 The New York Times Company Dr. Lai Ching-te was born in 1959 in New Taipei City’s Wanli district. After receiving a B.S ...

Udo Kier, a German actor and cult icon who collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol to Lars von Trier to Madonna, died on Sunday morning in Palm Springs, according to his partner, artist Delbert ...

I have heard it said time and time again that life is a mystery; that there is just something so elusive and incomprehensible about why birth and death occur or why and how creation comes to be at all ...