Taiwan

Kinmen, the closest island territory of Taiwan to China and once a part of the international anti-communism battlefront, has today become part of China’s “Unification” plan for Taiwan. While ‘One Country, two Systems’ is facing an unprecedented challenge in Hong Kong, the propaganda for Taiwan continues. Meanwhile, a referendum on a ‘One Country, two Systems Experimental Zone’ has been quietly unfolding on Kinmen.

Taipei’s old-school restaurants have been around for decades and have mastered each dish they've crafted. Melissa McCart travels to Taiwan to report on why Taipei has become a major food and drink destination.

How Trump's immigration policies are affecting one of Pittsburgh's busiest restaurants.

The most common refrain about Chinese noodle-pulling is that it’s not easy. And unfortunately, Chinese noodle-pulling is a dying art as noodle-making has become automated.

China is putting intense pressure on Taiwan to give up its separatist aspirations, but the more China presses reunification, the more Taiwan prefers to stay separate. 

Asia may not have caught up with the United States in technology, wealth, or power, but its subway systems are impressive compared to some of those in crumbling urban America.

A fracas in Taiwan's legislature may have been prompted by Chinese meddling—or at least that suspicion shows that Mainland China is never far from the collective mind on Taiwan.

Since her husband, the Taiwanese activist Lee Ming-che, was arrested in China, Lee Ching-yu has been at the center of an uphill struggle even to learn where he is, much less get him released.

Tsai Ing-wen looks like she's about to win the upcoming presidential election on Taiwan, and if she does, the one-China idea, so important to Beijing, will have suffered a stunning defeat.

For a minority, seeing the island's democracy in action is a transformative experience.

The reputation of China's Nationalist leader is falling in Taiwan and being rehabilitated on the Mainland. What's going on?