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The 2024 Presidential Election and the Lai Ching-te Era
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TW-A-02Cross-Strait Relations — The Republic of China and the People's Republic of China, 1949–2024
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TW-A-03The Chen Shui-bian Presidency, the 2004 Election Shooting, and the Post-2008 Corruption Prosecutions (2000–2008)
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TW-B-01The 1987 Lifting of Martial Law and the Lee Teng-hui Democratization Pivot (1986–1996)
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TW-B-05The 2014 Sunflower Movement (18 March – 10 April 2014)
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TW-C-01The Ma Ying-jeou Presidency, the 2010 ECFA, the 2015 Ma-Xi Singapore Summit, and the Post-2016 KMT Decline (2008–2016)
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Chen Shui-bian Second Term (2004–2008)
3TW-A-01The 2024 Presidential Election and the Lai Ching-te Era13 January 2024 election through mid-2025Fact-checked4k wTW-A-02Cross-Strait Relations — The Republic of China and the People's Republic of China, 1949–20241949–2024Fact-checked12k wTW-A-03The Chen Shui-bian Presidency, the 2004 Election Shooting, and the Post-2008 Corruption Prosecutions (2000–2008)18 March 2000 through 5 January 2015Fact-checked15k w
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Ma Ying-jeou Era (2008–2016)
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Tsai Ing-wen Era (2016–2024)
4TW-C-01The Ma Ying-jeou Presidency, the 2010 ECFA, the 2015 Ma-Xi Singapore Summit, and the Post-2016 KMT Decline (2008–2016)22 March 2008 through 20 May 2016Fact-checked12k wTW-C-05The 2020 Tsai Ing-wen Re-Election Landslide (11 January 2020)2018 through 20 May 2024Fact-checked9k wTW-C-06The Pelosi Visit and the Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis (August 2022)2022Fact-checked7k wTW-C-09The Lai Ching-te Presidency Year Two — Divided-Government Stability, the Post-*Great Recall* Aftermath, the FY2026 Budget Battle and 3-Per-Cent-of-GDP Defence-Spending Question, the Hsiao Bi-khim Vice-Presidential Role, and the Trump-2 US-Taiwan Trade-Negotiating-Track Continuation (May 2025 – May 2026)20 May 2025 through May 2026Fact-checked14k w
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Lai Ching-te Era (2024–present)
6TW-D-01The 13 January 2024 Taiwan Presidential Election, the Lai-Hou-Ko Three-Way Race, and the DPP's Three Consecutive Presidencies — the First Since Taiwan's Democratisation (2022–2024)26 November 2022 through 13 January 2024 and the 20 May 2024 inaugurationFact-checked14k wTW-D-02The Lai Ching-te Presidency, the May–October 2024 Legislative-Reform Constitutional Contest, the *Joint Sword 2024A/B* Exercises, and the Post-January 2025 Trump-2 Taiwan-US Reset (20 May 2024 – Present)20 May 2024 through mid-May 2025Fact-checked13k wTW-D-03TSMC Arizona, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Trump-2 Chip-Tariff Regime — From the May 2020 Phoenix Fab-21 Announcement to the 3 March 2025 USD 100 Billion Oval-Office Pledge (2020–2025)May 2020 through mid-May 2025Fact-checked15k wTW-D-04The 2025 KMT Recall Campaign, the Constitutional-Court Paralysis, and Lai Ching-te's Strategic Response (2024–2025)January 2024 through August 2025Fact-checked13k wTW-D-05Lai Ching-te's Mid-Term — The Post-Recall Legislative Yuan, the 2025 KMT Chair Succession to Eric Chu, the TPP Post-Ko-Wen-je Realignment, the Trump-2 Arms-and-Tariff Architecture, and the Run-Up to the 2026 Nine-in-One Local Elections (January 2025 – April 2026)January 2025 through August 2026Fact-checked13k wTW-D-06Taiwan's 2026 Budget Battle, the KMT-TPP Bloc Confrontation, and the Defence-Spending-to-Three-Per-Cent-of-GDP Question (2025–2026)September 2025 through May 2026Fact-checked14k w
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Economic Architecture
2TW-E-01The Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement and the Twenty-Three Cross-Strait Agreements — From the 12 June 2008 Beijing ARATS-SEF Resumption and the 29 June 2010 Chongqing ECFA Signing to the 2014 Sunflower CSSTA Suspension, the Post-2016 DPP Partial Maintenance, and the Post-2024 Lai-Era PRC Suspension Threats (2008–2026)12 June 2008 through May 2026Fact-checked16k wTW-E-02Taiwan's New Southbound Policy — From the 20 May 2016 Tsai Inaugural Strategic-Reorientation Announcement and the 5 September 2016 Executive Yuan Policy-Guideline Release to the Eighteen-Target-Country Architecture across the Ten ASEAN Members, the Six South Asian States, and the Australia–New Zealand Pair, the Post-2020 CPTPP Application Trajectory, and the Post-20 May 2024 Lai-Era Continuation (2016–2026)20 May 2016 through May 2026.Fact-checked15k w
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Foreign Policy
4TW-F-01US-Taiwan Relations and the Evolution of Strategic Ambiguity (2016–2026)2016 through May 2026Fact-checked10k wTW-F-02Cross-Strait Dynamics 2000–2026 — From Chen Shui-bian's Independence Rhetoric to Lai Ching-te's Deterrence-Dependence Equilibrium20 May 2000 through August 2026Fact-checked15k wTW-F-03The New Southbound Policy and Taiwan's Southeast Asia Turn (1994–2026)1994 through June 2026.Fact-checked8k wTW-F-04The Cross-Strait Military Balance, Asymmetric Defence, and the Overall Defense Concept (2017–2026)2017 through May 2026Fact-checked14k w
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Economic Architecture
5TW-G-01TSMC and the Semiconductor Industry1987 through mid-2025Fact-checked4k wTW-G-02Taiwan's Semiconductor Ecosystem Beyond TSMC: UMC, MediaTek, Realtek, ASE, and the Industrial Policy Architecture (1987–2025)1987 through mid-2025Fact-checked16k wTW-G-03Taiwan's Semiconductor Diaspora, TSMC's Global Fab Architecture, and Chip Diplomacy — From the Phoenix Fab-21 Phase 1 N4 Production Start to the Dresden ESMC Ground-Breaking, the Kumamoto JASM Sony-Joint-Venture Build, and the Lai-Government Chip-Diplomacy Doctrine (2020–2026)May 2020 through May 2026Fact-checked14k wTW-G-04The Hsinchu Science Park and the Taiwan Semiconductor Industrial-Policy Architecture — From the 15 December 1980 Founding under Premier Sun Yun-suan to the Post-2025 Trump-2 Export-Control and Capacity-Diversification Era (1980–2026)15 December 1980 through August 2026Fact-checked14k wTW-G-05Taiwan Energy Policy, Nuclear Politics, and the Security-of-Supply Question — From the 1978 Chinshan Reactor Start-Up through the Nuclear-Free-Homeland Phase-Out to the Post-2024 Reversal Debate (1978–2026)December 1978 through mid-2026, weighted toward the post-2000 democratic-era contestationFact-checked10k w
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Biographies
4TW-H-PRES-01Lee Teng-hui — Mr. Democracy, the Father of Taiwanese Identity, and the Architect of the Post-1988 Transition (1923–2020, Legacy to 2026)15 January 1923 through 30 July 2020Fact-checked13k wTW-H-PRES-02Chen Shui-bian — 陳水扁 (1950–)18 February 1950 through presentFact-checked13k wTW-H-PRES-03Ma Ying-jeou — 馬英九 (1950–)13 July 1950 through presentFact-checked14k wTW-H-PRES-04Tsai Ing-wen — 蔡英文 (1956–)31 August 1956 through presentFact-checked15k w
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Institutions
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Contested Legacies
2TW-J-01Three Accounts — The 28 February 1947 Incident and Its Memory Politics: the Tianma Tea House Shooting, the Island-Wide Uprising, the Settlement Committees and the 32 Demands, the 8 March Landing of the 21st Division, the *Qingxiang* Suppression and the Destruction of Taiwan's Emergent Civic Elite, the Four Decades of Criminalised Silence, and the Contest Among the Taiwanese Nationalist/Transitional-Justice Account, the Evolving KMT/Republic-of-China Account, and the PRC/Chinese-Nationalist Account (1947–2026)27 February 1947 through May 1947, as the factual spineFact-checked11k wTW-J-02Three Accounts — The White Terror and Its Reckoning: the 19 May 1949 Martial Law Declaration and the World's Longest Martial Law at Its 1987 Lifting, the Punishment of Rebellion Act and the Communist-Spy Statute's Informer-Reward Machinery, the Military Tribunals That Tried Civilians for Four Decades, the 1950s Leftist Eradication and the Green Island Prison World, the Lei Chen and Peng Ming-min Cases, the 1979 Kaohsiung Incident and the Making of the Formosa Generation, the Terminal Murders of the 1980s, and the Contest Among the State-Violence/Transitional-Justice Account, the Cold-War-Necessity Account, and the Complicated-Society/Grey-Zone Account (1949–2026)19 May 1949 through May 1991 and May 1992, as the factual spine of the repression eraFact-checked12k w
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Key Decisions
3TW-K-01Tsai Ing-wen's 2 January 2019 "Five Musts" Rejection of Xi Jinping's *Message to Compatriots in Taiwan* 40th-Anniversary Address — the Same-Day Office of the President Response, the Domestic-Political Inflection Point that Restored the 2020 Re-Election Campaign, and the Cross-Strait Consequences (2018–2020)24 November 2018 through 2 January 2019 through 11 January 2020Fact-checked14k wTW-K-02The Tsai Administration's 2017 Pension Reform Decision and the Post-Reform Political Cost — The 27 June 2017 Civil Service Pension Act and the 29 June 2017 Teachers' Pension Act Reducing the 18 Per Cent Preferential Interest Rate, the 23 April 2017 KMT-Aligned Veterans-and-Pensioners Protest at the Legislative Yuan, and the Short-Term Approval Crash to Approximately 30 Per Cent Against the Structural Fiscal Stability Gain (2016–2020)20 May 2016 through 27 June 2017 and 29 June 2017Fact-checked12k wTW-K-03The 7 November 2015 Ma Ying-jeou – Xi Jinping Singapore Meeting Decision — the First Face-to-Face Encounter Between Heads of State of the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China since the 1945 Chongqing Chiang–Mao Meeting, the October–November 2015 Decision Sequence, the Shangri-La Hotel 79-Minute Closed Session and the "Mr Ma" / "Mr Xi" Form-of-Address Mechanism, the Symbolic-versus-Substantive Contestation, and the Post-2016 DPP-Era Reassessment (2014–2026)29 November 2014 through 7 November 2015 through 16 January 2016 and forward to 20 May 2016Fact-checked11k w
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Ideas and Frameworks
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External Lens
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Mega Trends
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