Places Archive

  • Albania, China, and Taiwan: a history of tangled relations

    Albania, China, and Taiwan: a history of tangled relations

    The following article appeared on the New Lens’ website today. Albanian perceptions of Taiwan, where they exist, are hazy. Parku Rinia (Youth Park) in downtown Tirana is a testament to this. Close to Skanderbeg Square – with its equestrian monument to the Albanian national hero – this green space in downtown Tirana is labeled “Taiwan […]

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  • Holding Taiwan’s transnational corporations to account

    Holding Taiwan’s transnational corporations to account

    The following article appeared in Taipei Times on December 7, 2023.  When workers at a garment factory in Yangon, Myanmar, went on strike in February to protest starvation wages, their employer had the army called in. “[It’s a] classic case of union-busting … Military vehicles and police showed up to threaten them,” says Ray Cheng […]

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  • Kosovo and Taiwan eye an alliance of outsiders

    Kosovo and Taiwan eye an alliance of outsiders

    The following article was published on the Foreign Policy website today: Nowhere is Washington held in higher esteem than in the small Balkan nation of Kosovo. On Bill Clinton Boulevard in Pristina, Kosovo’s capital, a statue of the former U.S. president waves cheerily to passersby. Clinton’s secretary of state, Madeleine Albright—who in 1999 pushed for […]

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  • Little Burma: Where great food meets fascinating history

    Little Burma: Where great food meets fascinating history

    The following article appeared in this month’s issue of Taiwan Business Topics, the magazine of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan: On most afternoons, Henry Wong and friends sit outside A-Mui’s Noodle Shop (阿妹緬甸小吃, 41 Huaxin St.) in Little Burma, sipping tea from yellow cups. On cooler days the saucers go on top like sombreros, […]

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  • Why is China’s English disinformation still so crude?

    Why is China’s English disinformation still so crude?

    The following article appeared in today’s Taipei Times: The comment arrived shortly after I’d posted the link on Facebook. The article, which was my first for Taiwan Business TOPICS, the magazine of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan, was about burgeoning trade between Taiwan and Lithuania. Accompanied by the profile picture of an attractive […]

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  • The Cold War history behind Nicaragua’s break with Taiwan

    The Cold War history behind Nicaragua’s break with Taiwan

    The following piece appeared as the leader today in The Diplomat magazine: We touched down in Managua, Nicaragua, shortly before 7:50 p.m. on July 18, 2014. The tickets were originally booked for a cheaper flight the following day, but Pablo Morales was having none of it. “It’s Liberation Day,” he said. “You have to be […]

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